House Doctor

If you want to improve the Saleability and potential value of your home why not let the house doctor help you.

First Impressions is a service to owners who are selling their homes.Liz Barnard

The aim is to help you present your property to its best advantage so that it sells quickly and for the best price.

The objective of the service is to make sure viewers like what they see from the road, are keen to arrange a viewing and, having viewed, make an offer.

To appeal to buyers and reach its optimum value, your property should be well-maintained. To compete with others of the same type or in the same price bracket it helps if it is well-presented too.

This is where the expertise of the Property Presentation Adviser (or ‘House Doctor’) can help give you the edge over similar properties.

Liz Barnard is the designer who created First Impressions. One of her recent successes was to sell her own house, at the asking price, to the first person who walked in the door!

The service is called First Impressions because experience shows that most viewers make their decisions about a property within the first few minutes of seeing it.



Liz Barnard, the Property Presentation Advisor at First Impressions, is an experienced interior and garden designer and property developer in her own right. Not only has she featured in the press, on TV, on radio and in magazines but she has a successful record of selling properties at the top of their value band and to the first or second person to view.





 Liz has featured in local and national newspapers, in magazines, on radio and TV as Watsons’ ‘house doctor’. She is a qualified and experienced interior designer and a prize-winning garden designer and is delighted to offer her talent for presentation to help you sell your home.



What Liz can do for your home.

  • She can tell you what purchasers are looking for when they are house hunting:
  • How to emphasise the positive aspects of your home
  • How to minimise the imperfections and how to achieve this on a realistic budget.

    • Her service consists of a visit to your home to discuss any changes which might help to market it more effectively.

    The suggestions discussed at the visit are then summarised in a written report for your reference. The proposals can be as simple as re-arranging furniture to make a room seem more spacious or she may advise you to de-clutter!

    The photographs on this page show how rooms have been visually improved by quite simple and inexpensive techniques.

    If you follow the expert advice offered, you should be very well placed to take advantage of the current property market.