My sister Liz Barnard, who has died aged 83, began her working life in the government Careers Service, but in her 30s she changed career herself. In 1977 she embarked on a degree in furnishing and interior design at the London College of Furniture, and then moved back to Norwich, where she had grown up, and began to develop property.
She became well known as a “house doctor”, styling and presenting homes to their best advantage, and also took on garden design and plant photography. In 1983, she was highly commended in a Sunday Times competition for a design for a small garden, and in the 1990s, her work was featured in the Norwich press, and nationally in the Sunday Telegraph and the Express.
