This remains a very cool system that is, unfortunately, incredibly difficult to get into due to the terribly low drop rate for new furniture crafting materials like Regulus and Heartwood. If you're looking to get into furniture crafting, be prepared to spend many hours farming materials for each individual object you want to create!

Please, please consider increasing the number of furnishing items that can be placed in houses. 600 items (with ESO+) is so little for a large house if you want to fully decorate it.

I'm sorry but that article is just lying, there is nothing exclusive to furniture crafting as you can buy them from the crown store as well. Misleading article and a blatant lie.

As mentioned on PTS and Live

Blacksmithing: Regulus
Woodworking: Heartwood
Clothier: Bast and Clean Pelts
Provisioning: Decorative Wax
Enchanting: Mundane Runes
Alchemy: Alchemical Resin

The above ..... You're starting a new crafting system and still haven't aligned the old system to one tamriel. It's frustrating even more cause we have all these old materials that don't do anything once you level up.

All base materials need to become wood, wood scraps, cloth, cloth scraps, metal, metal scraps (so to speak) if these new mats only come from harvesting. Something's go to give somewhere.

Use those olds mats for style purposes only

First of all, this has been the update I've hoped and waited for since I played ESO in Beta. I've always wanted a home in Daggerfall since i played Elder Scroll's Daggerfall back in 95, and now I can have that dream realized (without the threat of the ghost of King Lysandus). HOWEVER as a veteran crafter of many MMOs and Master craftsman of all crafts here in ESO, I see several flaws i think should be addressed. First of all, i see the extremely low drop rate for the rare homestead crafting materials has been mentioned...and about that...why are my basic mud bowls, basic candles and chairs, bed rolls, etc requiring extremely rare crafting materials anyway? That seems to make no logical sense other than a time sink which is ridiculously frustrating.
Secondly, with materials so scarce and difficult for even the most basic of things...this amazing three story house i just bought will take months if not a year to furnish half way decently, let alone the meager three inn rooms i've accumulated, because i cant even find all the recipes i'd want. As someone mentioned earlier, i'm not one of those who will pay RL money for pixel home decor, i much prefer and find it more rewarding and fun to be able to craft for my homes, so without even starter recipes available at a vendor for more furnishings than boxes and bags and a bedroll, this too is frustrating.
Third, why dont homestead recipes follow the same rules as other recipes where greens use basic harvests, only blues, purples and gold require something more, this would seem a more logical and realistic progression.
Fourth, why do i have to pay an absurdly large sum of gold for achievement items i should be awarded for earning the achievement in the first place, retconed or gained since homestead's release? This seems rather unfair compared to many other games where when you earn the achievement part of the reward is the house item, title, etc. I'm not a gold farmer and i dont have days to spend harvesting a mere two or three rare components/possibly finding recipes when my time is better spent playing content/crafting/fixing up the home.
Holding out on getting that Daggerfall Overlook home, no point in owning an enormous castle if you cant adequately furnish.

End rant

To @ZOS_JessicaFolsom:

On the photo I see what looks like a set of Elk Antlers over the cabinet. I am new to home furnishing, but is that a item that I can get in-game as a crafting blueprint?

I think that would be such a nice addition for hanging above a fireplace or cooking pot... Its awesome !!