Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Roleplaying in a RPG tends to mean "playing one's character". This is one way of playing one's character. Someone who describes the furniture in his/her PC's house isn't "not roleplaying" just because the purchase and arrangement of said furniture happened at some earlier, unspecified moment in the gameworld.
Unless the character is describing the furniture to someone in the game world, a player describing furniture is not "playing one's character." All the player is doing is reciting a description of something, which isn't roleplaying at all.