The term ‘architectural hardware’ doesn’t have the sexiest ring to it, but Nicky Percival personally loves everything to do with the topic. Covering items like door handles, hinges, locks, cabinet knobs, drawer pulls, and window latches this umbrella term includes all your historically considered ‘boring’ yet essential items. Yet, it's because these elements are used every day that the touch and feel of them are very important.

Choosing an interior designer to work with can be hard, especially if you haven’t done it before.

So, here Nicky Percival tells you a little bit more about herself, the type of work she does and most importantly, what her clients can expect from her.

The ubiquitous neutrality of grey has dominated the world of interior decoration for a few years now. But this is likely to change for 2024. Here Nicky Percival Kent and Sussex Interior Designer discusses the interior colour trends for the year ahead.

This is part two of a blog where Nicky Percival Kent and Sussex Interior Designer is explaining how she renovated and redesigned the interior of a Decimus Burton house from the 19th century. The first blog focussed on the ground floor and in this one she explores how work progressed on the first floor.

In this recent blog which is Part 3 of a series about attending design events Nicky Percival Interior Designer of Kent and Sussex turns her attention to Decorex and reflects upon her thoughts and impressions of some of the various interior design exhibitors.

In this recent blog which is Part 2 of a series about attending design events Nicky Percival Interior Designer turns her attention to the Decorative Fair and reflects upon her thoughts and impressions of some of the various stands exhibiting.

Nicky Percival Kent and Sussex Interior Designer discusses why visiting annual design events is crucial to her design work, leaving her brimming with fresh ideas and thoughts around how she can incorporate what she sees into her designs. This blog (Part 1 of 3) focusses on her visit to Focus/23, at the Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour London.

Nicky Percival Kent and Sussex Interior Designer was tasked with creating a new design direction which would respect the wonderful Georgian architecture whilst also making a comfortable home suitable for contemporary family life.

Nicky Percival Interior Designer was challenged to create a modern, stylish and comfortable family home with suitable interior décor whilst still respecting the period of the building and the English Heritage monument to which it was attached.

Nicky Percival Interior Designer shares the second part of her blog about remodelling, redecorating and refurnishing of a Georgian Manor House that needed updating to make it suitable for modern family living.  The focus of that blog was on the downstairs rooms.  In this blog, she will share her ideas for the upper levels of the house.

How do you seamlessly blend the best features of a listed period cottage with some more contemporary styling appropriate for modern living? Find out how we modernised, updated and extended this Victorian Grade 2 Listed Cottage.

Do you have any corners in your house that may have been neglected over the years and could do with a new lease of life? Nicky Percival Interior Designer discusses three properties that she has worked on recently with clients who each had their own, subtly differing, tastes. She shows how to give some important corners a character of their own, whilst still allowing them to blend beautifully with the more general feel of the overall space.