I didn't care that the play yard is ugly. I just needed it to be functional. However, while putting it up, one of the corner "joints" shattered. It was so frustrating! We ended up sending back the piece of garbage, and we bought a beautiful bronze metal play yard. Sure, this yard is much, much cheaper. However, it didn't save us any money, because it turned out to be so fragile that it was useless for our purpose.