An interesting analysis again, @ksolymosi! Thank you. Here, in Serbia there is one symbol of showing up social status of people who worked in Germany or Austria or Italy or...where ever, and gained some fortune (We call them "gasterbeiters". Many or them are gypsies,). It is some ornaments -lions or hores in front of the house.
These people worked some very hard jobs, and they need to show their wealth, so they make their houses standout by everything, from the size to shape, color, curtains. But these lions stayed a symbol of this type of untasteless, nonstylish aesthetics of the rich.

There is one more phenomena, I would like to tell, during 50es and 60es, many people never wanted to show their wealth in fear of being called the burgeoasie. That is how many houses never got the shiny looks, although very rich aristocratic families lived behind these modest walls.