We moved recently. Our previous house served us well, with adequate space for all the kids. My wife never complained. But this time, as we were getting ready

We moved recently. Our previous house served us well, with adequate space for all the kids. My wife never complained. But this time, as we were getting ready to hunt for a house, she said, "Can our next house be pretty?" Beauty matters. We can have different definitions of what beauty is, and tastes change. But we still need beauty. We are not just purely functional organisms, whether or not our philosophy admits it. We have a sense of the aesthetic. We don't like ugly, and we don't like boring, and we don't want to be surrounded by either of them.