Bright and beautiful; Home decor was never Bill and Mary Hutchison's strong point ... in fact, they were drowning in a sea of drabness until the Homelife team brought some light into their lives.(Features)

WHEN Mary Hutchison says she and husband Bill are really dull, it isn't their personalities that she's talking about.

What Mary finds so depressing is their taste in home decor.

Mary said: "Bill's a joiner to trade, so he's pretty handy around the house. But when it comes to decorating, we're both so hopeless about picking colours that even his best handiwork looks horrible. The worst is the sitting room. It's really yuk.

"About eight years ago, we knocked down the wall between our sitting room and the hall, to give us a lovely big living space. But the…