"An ugly baby is a very nasty object and the prettiest is frightful when undressed". -- Queen Victoria
“There are but two ways of dealing with a room which is fundamentally ugly: one is to accept it, and the other is courageously to correct its ugliness”. -- Edith Wharton, The Decoration of Houses (1897)
“[T]o create a beautiful home,
you need a bit of ugly”. -- Deborah Needleman, The Perfectly Imperfect Home
"The uglier the wallpaper, the harder it is to remove.... Ugly wallpaper just sticks better. It's a fact" -- Julie Sussman, Dare to Repair
