I think that they should have taken Jacob to IKEA with them so that he could pick out the things that he wanted, what happens if he doesn’t like them?
The upstairs rooms sound like my next door neighbour's house, she has furniture and things that were given to her when she and her husband were married they bought the house in 1968, and she still hasn’t sorted through his things since he died 6 years ago, although she sold his wine collection that was in the cellar and made some money from that, she did find some drawings that an artist uni friend of Edward did and gave to him, the artist is a very famous East London artist and she sold the drawings at Sotheby’s for a substantial sum of money.
Who knows what Vince and Gray could find upstairs in the house.