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Painters in Ballarat, Victoria

Your price in writing, your dates locked in, and a 7-year workmanship warranty behind the finish. Start with an instant online quote in minutes. Newline Painting is a Melbourne-based painting team that takes on Ballarat work, whether that is a cottage interior, a full heritage exterior or a pre-sale refresh under time pressure.

7-year workmanship warranty
$20M public liability insurance
Multi Award Winning Painters
Free on-site quote and colour consult

Victorian terrace exterior repaint on Kay Street, Carlton

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Independently awarded, year after year

10+Years painting Melbourne homes

500+Projects completed end-to-end

4.8Average Google review rating

$20MPublic liability insurance cover

Customer reviews

What Ballarat homeowners say

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4.8

Based on 111 reviews

Newline Painting

4.8

Based on 111 reviews

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Lathika Nair

02:26 02 Sep 26

I have worked with Phi and his team at Newline Painting on several of my projects, and I have always been impressed with the quality of their work.
They specialise in high-quality finishes, and their attention to detail really shows in the final result. The team is professional, reliable and takes the time to make sure every project is completed to the client’s satisfaction.

As a designer, I know how important the finishing touches are, and Newline Painting consistently delivers.
I would definitely recommend Phi and the Newline Painting team to anyone looking to refresh or transform their space with a beautiful new coat of paint.

Daniel Yu

22:17 27 Aug 26

An exceptional result of my kitchen cabinets, which had difficult grooves and patterns to begin with. They knocked it out of the park and now my kitchen looks new and fresh without having to replace the cabinets.
The whole process was excellent. From first contact, to quote, to price, to organising a date and time, and the paint job. You can tell these guys care about their work and their customers. Will definitely use again!

Tom Ryan Vendor Advocacy

00:01 03 Jul 26

Phi and all his painters are skilled, caring and do an amazing job. I rely heavily on their expertise which is an enormous help in my business when recommending to all my clients. Confidence all the way !

Aaron Bazzica

02:22 27 Jun 26

Preparing a property for sale for a client in Chelsea. Great communication with us and our client. Really helped the property look its best.

Peter-Budge

23:15 25 Mar 26

We recently had the pleasure of working with Phi, Edward, and the Newline Painting team on one of our projects. From the very start, communication was smooth and professional. Their attention to detail, efficiency, and high-quality work made the entire process seamless. We look forward to collaborating with them again on future projects.

Jenny Jiao

04:51 25 Mar 26

Last week, Newline Painting completed exterior house painting for us, and we couldn't be happier with the results. From the owner, Phi, and manager, Edward, to the three team members, everyone worked together seamlessly to ensure the job was done smoothly. Our house now looks refreshed and vibrant. We highly recommend the Newline Painting team and sincerely thank them for their hard work and exceptional service—it is truly appreciated.

Khoa Pham

01:53 11 Feb 26

Phi is great to deal with, he was very generous with his time and ran me through the entire painting process and what to expect. Can't recommend him or the Newline team highly enough

Michael van Zweden

09:26 08 Feb 26

From start to finish, from booking to project complete, Newline did an awsome job. Selling a property is stressful enough and they certainly took the worry out of presenting the property in top condition. Not only the painting, but small cracks or a loose piece of skirting was instantly fixed. Couldn't believe it was the same property when they had finished. 6 stars if I could.

Trinh Duong

10:02 10 Dec 25

Thank you for the great job painting our house in Camberwell for sale before Christmas! Really appreciate the work your team did expertly for our bathroom, living room, bedrooms and the external house walls. Your team was efficient and friendly. We are very happy as it added at least $200,000 to the final house sale price.

K E

23:05 19 Aug 25

Edward and his team from Newline can’t be faulted!! Their professionalism and efficiency exceeded all expectations.
They are quality tradesmen, very respectful of our space and left it in great condition at the end of each work day. Great attention to detail.
Each of the team were extremely pleasant to deal with, easy communication including Roi at head office.
Exceptional!

Karen Lindsay

05:10 12 Aug 25

The team from Newline Painting did a fabulous job painting our home. James was extremely obliging and always easy to contact. I thoroughly recommend them.

Su-Zann Yap

10:51 03 Aug 25

Phi, Roi and the team were great to work with from start to finish. They were detailed and thorough, and provided great aftercare service, checking in and making sure I was happy with the work. Most importantly, they did great job on the walls.

Liz Barnes Photo

00:53 11 Jul 25

I had a great experience with the Newline painting team. They offered a competitive price to repaint the interior of my apartment and were able to accommodate my tight timeline (they started 1 day after the quote was given) and still delivered high-quality work. Communication was smooth and professional from start to finish. I’m really happy with the result and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them.

Andrés Noé

01:31 09 Jul 25

All Newline Painting staff, Edward and his team were phenomenal. We needed to wait for another contractor to finish before starting the painting of the front facade of our house and despite a moving timeline, the NP team were quick to respond, courteous and were ready as soon as we were. The painting job is fantastic - the painters' attention to detail, thoroughness and efficiency was second to none. I'm very glad we went with NP as they're solution oriented and easy to work with. We'll definitely be hiring them again soon.

Cross CY

11:28 12 May 25

Great communication from Ray, who’s even been following up with my queries in evening and weekend. The job was done quickly from very experienced professionals. There are three people working on the job together to get it done quickly. Would certainly recommend Newline painting to others.

James Catherine

23:56 18 Mar 25

Edward and the Newline team were incredible to work with! They were professional, clear, and very good. Really recommend them and will definitely be using the team again when we need anything painted.

Nick Watson

03:05 13 Mar 25

Very good service -
Affordable, very good customer service and the final product was really good

Peter Johnson

06:54 06 Mar 25

They did a very professional job, left the site clean and tidy, communicated well and met all our expectations.

Emma Foster

09:32 04 Mar 25

After a long time deciding who to pick to paint our house we landed on Newline Painting and feel as if we most definetly made the right choice, they did some maginificent work that left us very happy with the results. The team assigned to us worked fast and managed to see our vision very well. 5 stars without a doubt. Highly recommend.

banana nana

09:31 03 Mar 25

5/5 stars for the great service provided by the Newline Painting team at my house, highly recommend!

narelle selkrig

03:46 02 Mar 25

Newline Painting did a great exterior painting work at my house, we were very surprised with the final outcome. I would recommend this to anyone who needs this service done by a profesional company who knows what they're doing. 10/10.

Isabelle Kalepo

10:25 28 Feb 25

Newline painting did exactly what was needed at a great price. I'll be using this company for any upcoming projects. Highly recommend

Chloe Morgan

06:11 27 Feb 25

The team was great and had excellent work ethic! They were professional at all stages and left everything clean and in perfect conditions. I would highly recommend their services

TigerTahleya

14:52 26 Feb 25

Martin and his team did an job painting my full house exterior. They were fast and efficient. I appreciated how Martin kept me up to date daily, letting me know the plan for the day. From customer service to the painting, everything went smooth from start to finish. I would recommend these guys to anyone!

aysel tinas

14:25 26 Feb 25

Big thanks to the Newline Painting team for the work on my outdoor walls. After Ed and the team finished the painting, I was so happy with the results and how great it looked compared to what it previously was. Highly recommend.

Shaun Bong

06:30 26 Feb 25

Ed and his team at Newline Painting did an outstanding job on repainting the interior of my home in South Melbourne! They were swift, tidy and professional throughout the entire project —5 stars wouldn’t be enough to rate their work. They weren't the cheapest quote we got but they definitely kept their promise on timeline, professionalism and their quality of work. Keep up the great work, guys! Highly recommend Newline Painting!

Our services

House painting services we offer

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Interior Painting

Walls, ceilings and trims, plus the deep cornices, ceiling roses and timber joinery that fill Ballarat’s Victorian and Edwardian interiors. Low-odour, low-VOC systems, applied with floors and furniture protected from the first sheet to the last.

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Exterior Painting

Weatherboard cottages, rendered boom-era facades and brick homes prepared for Ballarat’s cold, wet winters: moss and mould treatment, lead-safe handling on pre-1900 stock, and durable exterior systems applied in the right conditions.

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Pre-Sale House Painting

Getting a Ballarat home ready for sale: neutral, buyer-friendly schemes inside and out, timed around photography, open inspections and settlement so the property shows at its best.

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Apartment Painting

Apartment, strata and commercial interiors, common areas and facades. Owners-corporation approvals, tenant access and out-of-hours scheduling handled by us, not left to you.

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Feature Wall Painting

One statement wall, chosen with you to suit the room’s light and the home’s era, from deep heritage tones to modern contrast.

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Commercial painting of an office interior

Epoxy Painting

Hard-wearing epoxy coatings for garages, sheds and concrete floors that handle Ballarat frosts, workshop spills and daily traffic without chipping.

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Local knowledge

What we know about painting in Ballarat

Ballarat Town Hall on Sturt Street · Mattinbgn, CC BY 3.0 / Wikimedia

Ballarat's cold and its long wet winter set the calendar

Ballarat is genuinely cold and genuinely wet, and it holds moisture far longer than Melbourne does. Exterior coatings need a dry substrate and a surface temperature above roughly 10 degrees to cure properly, and through winter there are stretches where that simply does not happen. We book exterior work here for the warmer months and say so plainly at quote stage. If you need an exterior done in July we will tell you it should wait rather than take the booking and hope.

Her Majesty's Theatre on Lydiard Street South, Ballarat · Doug Butler, CC0 / Wikimedia

Goldfields heritage means overlays and original substrates

Much of central Ballarat sits under a heritage overlay, and a lot of the housing still carries its original render, weatherboard and sash windows. Colour changes on a contributory building can need council sign-off, and pre-1970 paint is treated as lead-safe work with contained wet-sanding, never dry-sanding. We check the overlay before quoting so you are not choosing a scheme you cannot use.

The Arch of Victory spanning Sturt Street, Ballarat · Biatch, CC BY-SA 3.0 / Wikimedia

How the travel actually works

We are Melbourne-based and there is no Ballarat depot. Your job is booked as a dedicated run: the crew comes up for consecutive days, works through, and stays until you have signed off. The travel is priced into the written quote rather than added afterwards, and the dates are fixed when you accept. That is the whole arrangement, and it is the part worth checking with anyone quoting you from out of town.

Pricing transparency

What Changes the Price of a Ballarat Painting Quote

Painting a house in Ballarat typically costs between A$4,000 and A$20,000 or more, depending on the size and condition of the home. As a per-square-metre guide, standard interior work runs about A$20 to A$30, detailed work with heavy trim rises to A$60 to A$100, and exterior repainting sits around A$15 to A$60. Ballarat tends toward the upper end, because the period homes here carry more trim, taller walls and more preparation than a modern build. Four things do most of the work on your quote, and our painting cost guide works through three examples in detail.

Surface area & number of coats

No honest painter carries a fixed "Ballarat price list". A timber cottage in Golden Point and a rendered boom-era villa with iron lacework sit at opposite ends of the effort scale. Three things actually set your quote.

Prep work required

Sheer scale is the first thing we price in Ballarat. The gold-boom homes here were built to impress: high ceilings, deep cornices, ceiling roses and long hallways that carry far more paintable surface than the floor area implies. Running two coats of interior painting through a double-fronted Victorian simply takes longer than freshening a compact cottage, and the quote reflects it.

Paint product specified

Condition is the second lever. Ballarat winters are cold and wet, so south-facing weatherboard often needs moss and mould treatment before a brush comes out, and frost-cracked, flaking coats need sanding back to sound timber. Add lead-safe handling on the city’s deep pre-1900 stock and prep can be more than half the labour on an exterior repaint. It is also what decides whether the finish lasts.

Access & height

The tin on the quote matters as well: Dulux Wash & Wear costs less than Haymes Ultra-Premium, and Ballarat’s frost, rain and damp south walls push us towards exterior systems built for cold climates. The product named on your quote is the product applied, always. Want a rough figure before anyone visits? Run your numbers through our painting cost calculator.

What that means for your place

A worked example for a Ballarat home

Rate bands are only useful once you put them against a real house. Take a double-fronted Victorian weatherboard in Ballarat, verandah detail, sash windows and a high gable.

300m²

of paintable exterior surface, which is the number that actually drives the quote, not the floor area.

A$15–60

per square metre for exterior work, depending on substrate and access.

A$4,500–18,000

indicative range for that house across two coats, before prep condition and access are assessed.

That is a planning figure, not a quote. Preparation condition, colour change, ceiling height and access move it, which is why we measure on site and give you one itemised written price rather than a rate.

How it works

How to Book Your Ballarat Painting Service

Get a free quote for your home

Start online or by phone, free either way. We agree scope, colours and timing, then you receive an itemised written price with the travel and scheduling for your Ballarat project already built in. Nothing vague, nothing added later.

Our painters get to work

Our painters prepare properly: moss and mould treatment, sanding, filling and priming before any colour goes on, with premium systems matched to your home's era and Ballarat's climate.

Walkthrough and 7-year warranty

Before we head back down the highway, we do a full walkthrough with you and put right anything you are not happy with there and then. After that, the 7-year written warranty covers the paintwork for the long run.

Recent work

Recent painting projects across Melbourne

Victorian terrace exterior repaint, Kay Street, Carlton — Kay Street, Carlton

Heritage exterior preparation, Carroll Street, North Melbourne — Carroll Street, North Melbourne

Repainted weatherboard exterior, Stawell Street, Coburg — Stawell Street, Coburg

Melbourne jobs from the crew that travels to Ballarat. Period exteriors and weatherboard, the same work we bring up the Western Highway. On a period home the preparation is usually about half the labour, and it is what decides how long the finish lasts.

Why choose us

Why Request a Quote from Newline Painting?

Newline Painting has painted Melbourne homes for more than ten years, carries $20M public liability cover, and won both the ASBA Small Business Champion award and a Master Painters Australia Award for Excellence in 2025.

7-Year Warranty

Every quote carries our 7-year workmanship warranty in writing, so a repainted verandah is still standing up to Ballarat winters long after the trestles are packed away.

$20M Insurance

$20 million public liability cover on every Ballarat project, from a single cottage interior to a full commercial facade, with certificates supplied before we start.

Reliable Scheduling

Travel and dates agreed in writing at quote stage. A regional booking only works if the crew turns up when promised, so we lock the schedule before we commit.

Rated 4.8 by our customers

In Ballarat a paint finish gets judged against some of Melbourne's best-kept houses, which is the standard we quote to.

Your local Ballarat painting team

Meet the Newline Painting team

Nothing about your Ballarat job is subcontracted: the painters who walk it at quote stage are the painters on the trestles. They are trade-qualified, background-checked painters with deep period-home experience: ornate render and lacework on boom-era villas, weatherboard cottages in Ballarat East and Golden Point, and Edwardian homes around Lake Wendouree. You see the same faces every day of the booking, and the 7-year written warranty sits behind everything they paint. Meet the full team →

Phi Dang, Founder and Director — **Phi Dang**Founder and Director

Edward Perez, Partner and Managing Lead Painter — **Edward Perez**Partner and Managing Lead Painter

Fredy Lopez, Team Leader — **Fredy Lopez**Team Leader

Exterior repaint of a Melbourne weatherboard home

Regional Victoria

Other regional centres we paint

Bendigo Geelong Shepparton Mildura Melbourne

By job type: interior, exterior, apartment, pre-sale and feature wall painting, across all of Melbourne.

Frequently asked questions

Ballarat painting, answered

Do you service Ballarat?

Yes. Newline Painting takes on projects in Ballarat (3350) and the wider City of Ballarat, including Ballarat East, Golden Point, Soldiers Hill, Lake Wendouree, Wendouree, Alfredton and Sebastopol. Our crews are based in Melbourne and travel up for booked projects, with the travel plan and dates written into the quote. Call 1300 044 206 to talk through yours.

Do you paint Ballarat’s Victorian and heritage homes?

Yes, heritage work is core work for us. Ballarat’s boom-era villas, rendered facades, cast-iron verandah lacework, sash windows and decorative plaster interiors are all routine for our painters, and we match heritage colour palettes where the streetscape calls for it.

My home is in a heritage overlay. Can I still repaint it?

Yes. Heritage overlays cover much of central Ballarat, including the Lydiard Street precinct, Sturt Street and large parts of Ballarat East and Soldiers Hill. Repainting in existing colours is generally fine, but a new colour scheme on a contributory exterior may need City of Ballarat approval. We check the overlay status with you before quoting a colour change.

How do you handle lead paint in older Ballarat houses?

Lead-safe practice is our default in Ballarat because most of the central housing stock predates 1900. Suspect surfaces are wet-sanded under containment, the waste is captured on sheets and disposed of properly, and dry-sanding old paint is simply banned on our sites.

What does Ballarat’s climate do to exterior paint?

Ballarat’s cold, wet winters are hard on paintwork. Moss and mould grow on south-facing and shaded walls, driving rain works into open joints, and frost cycles crack brittle coatings. We treat the growth, seal the joints and specify mould-resistant, flexible systems matched to each elevation.

When is the best time of year to paint a Ballarat exterior?

Late spring to early autumn gives the most reliable conditions. Exterior paint needs dry surfaces and minimum curing temperatures, and Ballarat’s winter mornings often fail both. We schedule honestly: if a facade should wait for warmer weather, we say so at quote stage rather than risk the finish.

Do you paint weatherboard miner’s cottages?

Yes. The timber cottages of Ballarat East and Golden Point are exactly the kind of home we repaint: sanding back flaking coats, treating moss, re-puttying sash windows, priming bare boards and finishing with a durable exterior system.

Do you offer pre-sale painting in Ballarat?

Yes. A pre-sale repaint is scheduled backwards from your campaign: neutral schemes chosen with your agent in mind, finished before the photographer arrives and holding up through inspections to settlement.

Do you provide a workmanship guarantee?

Yes. Workmanship is guaranteed for 7 years in writing, our crews are covered by $20 million public liability insurance, and covered paint failure inside the warranty period gets fixed on a return visit at no charge.

Where do I start if I want a quote for a Ballarat repaint?

Start with the instant online quote, or ring 1300 044 206. Heritage exteriors are best priced after an onsite look, and once you accept, the dates and travel plan for the Ballarat trip go into the same written document.