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.

Nicky Percival Interior Designer is currently working on an interesting and challenging project: the conversion/rebuild of a derelict old barn. But the planning permission has caveats. It was only granted because a building already existed, the client cannot demolish and rebuild from scratch. The only option is to remove and rebuild the old barn in sections. 

Nicky Percival, Interior Designer discusses why we shouldn’t be quick to discount plywood in our interior design projects .She talks about the many benefits and applications it has and why in her opinion it should definitely be considered as a material to use in our design projects.

Nicky Percival Award Winning Interior Designer is thrilled that a project very close to her heart has been hand-picked by the editors to be featured in an editorial ideabook on the homepage of Houzz.