This is a truly messy time of year – the storms have been coming for days and every time we go out for our daily walk, we bring more and more of the mucky outside indoors when we return. It is depressing. It also makes me think of having a really good refurbishment phase at home. Decorating and refurnishing the house – always the done thing for spring in years gone by. Our family definitely used to spruce up the sitting room and often the dining room too, if fund…