The Practice has come to specialise in designing new houses in the country. A parallel interest has developed in the reordering of existing houses to make them more suitable as a background for the lives of their owners. The refurbishments include designs and colouring for the details of the interior and can be extended to the purchase of furniture, the design of carpets, textiles and all other aspects of the house and garden. After training as an architect at the Brighton College of Art and Crafts, Nicholas Hills prepared his European tour, working first in Greece with Aristotle Sakelarios, in Denmark with Professor Arne Jacobsen and in Finland with Professor Amo Ruusuvuori.
A 1960's doctor's house in a small market town, nicely orientated in the middle of a plot of rising ground was, nevertheless hopelessly inadequate by present day standards; single glaze;, poorly insulated fletton brick walls with crazing rendering. The client considered demolition and rebuilding but by keeping it, improving the interior and adding two wings achieved a more interesting result. The lower ceilings of the house are offset by greater height in the end wings, one of which provides a book room, with a garage at one end of it, the other a conservatory, with a small flat at one end.
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