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  lmao. I don’t think you are quite accurate, but that was very funny, laughing at your post just my day.
context: I’m not really sure they care tbh >
  
  Those I know who entertain a lot certainly do care. Image is everything to them >
  
  It’s apparently everything to you too. >
  
  Architect here who worked designing for "rich people".
  Many of them see things in other countries and they want to implement it in their own place. Many also have several homes so adding a specific detail to one of them isn't a big deal to them. 
  Yes, many times Ive had the client saying "We stayed in this villa in Dubai and I want to have something like it in my vacation home in Colorado". The roll of the architect in this cases is to please the client, because he will find someone who will do it if you don't want to or consider it will look "ugly". Please the client and their significant other is a task that not many people would do and if not done right, you end up with styles clashing in the end.
  Many of them also have works of art that are more valuable than the house they are building, so the open spaces and endless minimalistic design is what they want so they can show of their art. >
  
  First off, can you define "rich people's homes?"
  The top 5% of people can (probably) afford to get into a McMansion, but that doesn't mean they can afford to renovate the home and replace all their furniture to create a show home aesthetic. People who are far wealthier often do have the money but can be left with a dilemma: do you replace a 100 year old hardwood floor and all the beautiful antique molding in your mansion to make the room look better for your gaming chair or have a weird combination of styles? >
  
  The top 5% could afford to renovate multiple McMansions. That’s why they usually live in actual mansions, and have multiple properties. If they’ve got a McMansion they rent it out. They don’t live in it.
  McMansions themselves are all cheaply designed. That includes the layouts of them which are usually very dysfunctional. They use semi vaulted ceiling’s, and don’t put up walls where they’re needed in order to give the illusion that the house is larger than it is. This tends to make it difficult to find appropriate spaces set things up in a useful way. 
  The wall placement are sometimes so broken up that spaces for shelving/cabinetry winds up all over the place, or they combine room areas badly. Not as a proper open floor plan, but one with weird corners where it’s difficult to figure out where to set up your furniture. All because they just had to put up a stupid raised ceiling.
  All of that leads to people just tossing things into whatever spot they can find, which is what causes the cluttered look OP is noticing. >
  
  This isn’t unpopular at all lol but yeah. When you’re rich you care more about how expensive the things are in your home as opposed to how it actually looks. >
  
  I don't think it's just rich people...a lot of people own ugly homes.