Beautifying Natural Art

After reading John Dewey's essay, I realized how true he is about how people don't think of organic objects and/or things as art. Currently, I am taking a Great Monuments of Art II class that is mostly focused on Navajo Folk Art. I often tend to find this subject dry during lectures about rugs that the Navajos have made, Navajo sand-paintings, and such.

We do not really think of objects that are beautiful (creative) and also useful are considered art. As Dewey says in his essay, "A conception of fine art that sets out from its connection with discovered qualities of ordinary experience will be able to indicate the factors and forces that favor the normal development of common human activities into matters of artistic value."
We have houses, or apartments, that are considered our shelters, yet we also keep it clean and/or modern and just the way we think houses should be in our eyes. We would never really think of our houses as a piece of art. Sure, keeping the house clean is in a way a form of survival in order for it to be inhabitable, but we add extra touches to it. Those extra touches we add to it include windows curtains, rugs/carpet/wood flooring, doors, pictures/paintings/wall decoration, etc....

These extra touches are not important to our everyday lives, for we can just survive in caves and dirt floor. Instead, we choose to satisfy ourselves with unnecessary appliances and such, using what we know about art and color coordination, we add a bit of beauty and art into our shelters we call home.