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I've been meaning to do a thread on home decor and spiritual caste. Spengler once said that the basic layout of the peasants home was the truest map of the racial soul of that people. What is inside the home speaks to what is inside the soul... https://twitter.com/NeonCthulhu/status/1332421708960108545
The peasants home is distinguished by immutable accumulation of things. There is no willful organization or discretion; things acquired simply sit in the place they are put down in a hodgepodge of random items that even when neat gives the impression of complete settledness.
At it's best this looks like the hobbit hole, at its worst the hoarder or junkie's den of garbage. There is the sense that the peasants home cannot be easily moved, or cleaned out, a sense of complete rootedness
The merchants home is distinguished by something I find very uncanny; they are scrupulously decorated to the bare minimum of necessity; necessity as determined by class tastes. Dining rooms with cabinets of china and silverware sets never used...
...paintings and decorations with no meaning, sufficient only to break up blank wall space, matching hand towel sets in guest bathrooms. Everything necessary for signaling, and not a thing more.
The priests home is organized according to an aesthetic program; even when messy it is very intentionally organized to signal aesthetic or ideological adherence. Intentional minimalism falls under this category.
The warriors home is filled with trophies- even when they do not see battle, warriors tend to make their homes into monuments to their lives and deeds, and tribal loyalties. There is usually a story behind everything in the warriors house.
Note that the warrior and peasant share similarities, as do the priest and merchant- and these tend to ally in the eternal class struggle between warrior and priest
