Editor”s note: Four decades of reform and opening-up have not only turned China into the world’s second-largest economy but also changed its people’s way of life. Those changes include people’s attitude toward interior decoration, which a veteran journalist with China Daily tries to analyze. For more than two years, my wife and I have been deferring the decision to repair and redecorate our apartment. Fifteen years after the last decoration, the varnish on the wooden floor and the paint on the walls are peeling off and the drains get clogged now and then. It is definitely time to get things fixed. But every time we decide to redecorate our apartment,…