Do i always have to restart the emulator after adding furnidata, swfs etc?Make sure you've added the SWF's in dcr/hof_furni, as well as the catalog_items and furniture SQL's. Since it's new furniture it also requires productdata.txt and furnidata.xml files (which are included in the release).
Restart your emulator and clear your cache (developer mode if using Cloudflare) and they should work fine.