Painters in Kensington, Melbourne
Newline Painting gives Kensington homeowners a repaint without the runaround: an instant online quote, one written itemised price, qualified tradespeople and a workmanship warranty that runs for seven years. Interior, exterior, pre-sale and owners-corporation work, from Victorian workers’ cottages to Kensington Banks townhouses, with a single small crew on the job from walkthrough to wash-up.
- 7-year workmanship warranty
- $20M public liability insurance
- Multi Award Winning Painters
- Free on-site quote and colour consult
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What Kensington homeowners say
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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.
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!
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!
Affordable, very good customer service and the final product was really good
House painting services we offer
Interior Painting
Walls, ceilings, trims and the arched hallways, ceiling roses and timber sashes of Kensington’s Victorian cottages. Low-odour, low-VOC systems, with drop sheets and dust control managed tightly because cottage rooms leave no spare space to hide mess in.
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Exterior Painting
Brick-fronted and weatherboard cottage façades on the hill grid, plus the render and board of Kensington Banks townhouses now due their first big repaint. Full preparation, including lead-safe handling on the pre-1900 stock, under Dulux Weathershield or Wattyl Solagard.
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Pre-Sale House Painting
Getting a Kensington cottage or townhouse ready for market: fast, agent-neutral colour schemes inside and out, timed around photography, opens and settlement.
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Apartment Painting
Interiors and common areas in the Younghusband warehouse conversions and Kensington Banks body-corporate rows. We carry the owners-corporation approvals, tenant notices and shared-driveway logistics ourselves, so none of it lands on you.
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Feature Wall Painting
One confident colour to anchor a cottage living room or wake up a white townhouse interior, matched to the light, era and palette your home already has.
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Epoxy Painting
Hard-wearing, high-gloss epoxy for Kensington garage floors and concrete surfaces, a finish that stands up to chips, oil and tyre marks.
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Get a free quote for your home
Start with a free quote online or a phone call. We walk the home, agree scope and colours, and give you one written, itemised figure: nothing vague, nothing added later.
Our painters get to work
Our painters prepare properly, sanding, filling and priming, then apply premium paint systems matched to cottage timber or townhouse render, protecting floors, furniture and courtyard plantings throughout the job.
Walkthrough and 7-year warranty
We finish with a room-by-room walkthrough and sort any touch-up while the gear is still on site. After that, the written 7-year warranty backs the finish, cottage or townhouse alike.
Recent painting projects across Melbourne
Recent Newline Painting jobs on inner-west weatherboards and brick terraces. On a period home the preparation is usually about half the labour, and it is what decides how long the finish lasts.
What Changes the Price of a Kensington Painting Quote
Painting a house in Kensington 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. Kensington has older and newer homes side by side, so where a quote lands depends on the individual house: trim, wall height and condition matter more than the suburb. Four things do most of the work on your quote, and our painting cost guide works through three examples in detail.
Kensington doesn’t have one repaint price. A brick-fronted workers’ cottage and a 1990s rendered townhouse are entirely different jobs.
Surface area & number of coats
Area painted is the opening lever. Kensington’s Victorian cottages are compact, but compact doesn’t mean quick: high ceilings, ornate cornices, arched hallways and timber sash windows all take brush time a plain plasterboard room never asks for. Two full coats of interior painting through a double-fronted cottage off Bellair Street is a very different job to refreshing a two-bedroom townhouse, and the quote reflects that.
Prep work required
Surface condition comes second. On the cottage grid that means raking out cracked putty, priming weathered timber and lead-safe handling on the pre-1900 stock; down on the Kensington Banks side it’s chalked render, hairline cracking and trims now past their thirtieth year and due a second or third repaint. Boards near the old river flats also hold moisture longer after rain, and prep is what decides whether an exterior repaint lasts five years or fifteen.
Paint product specified
Paint choice moves the number too: Dulux Wash & Wear sits below Haymes Ultra-Premium, and we specify Wattyl Solagard where render and boards cop the weather coming off the river flats. The exact product written on your quote is what gets opened on site. No quiet substitutions mid-job. For a ballpark before anyone visits, try our painting cost calculator.
Access & height
Access rounds out the price. Cottage rows share party walls and often have no side access, so ladders, kerbside parking and neighbour courtesy all have to be planned; the Younghusband woolstore conversions and larger townhouse groups add owners-corporation approvals and, occasionally, boom-lift access. Every one of those variables is priced up front, never invoiced as a surprise.
A worked example for a Kensington home
Rate bands are only useful once you put them against a real house. Take a weatherboard cottage in Kensington, weatherboard cladding, fascia and window frames.
of paintable exterior surface, which is the number that actually drives the quote, not the floor area.
per square metre for exterior work, depending on substrate and access.
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.
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
The 7-year workmanship warranty comes in writing on every job, so a cottage façade on the hill grid still looks sharp long after the drop sheets are packed away.
$20M Insurance
$20 million public liability cover on every Kensington project, from a single cottage hallway to a full townhouse-row repaint, with certificates supplied before we start.
Reliable Scheduling
Firm scheduling agreed up front. We turn up on the day we committed to and stage the work around your household, and around the street parking.
Rated 4.8 by our customers
In Melbourne a paint finish gets judged against some of Melbourne's best-kept houses, which is the standard we quote to.
What we know about painting in Kensington
Heritage overlays cover Kensington’s cottage grid
City of Melbourne heritage overlays take in much of Kensington’s Victorian fabric: the workers’-cottage streets around Bellair Street, McCracken Street and Rankins Road, and the woolstore precinct along the rail line. Changing the colours on a contributory cottage façade can need council approval before a brush comes out. We sit down with the overlay map together before pricing any colour change, so a permit never ambushes the schedule.
Lead paint is a given in pre-1900 Kensington cottages
Most of Kensington’s cottage grid went up in the 1880s and 1890s, which means layers of lead-based paint are almost certain under later coats. Until a test says otherwise, every pre-1970 surface gets handled as lead: contained wet-sanding, drop-sheet capture and careful disposal, never dry-sanding that sends lead dust over a shared side fence or through a small cottage garden.
River-flats damp on the Banks, west sun on the hill
Kensington’s lower streets sit on former Maribyrnong river flats, and the render and weatherboard down there hold moisture longer after rain, so south-facing walls are the first to grow mould. Up on the hill grid the problem reverses: west-facing boards cop the full afternoon sun and chalk first. We match the system to each elevation: mould-resistant coatings on the damp sides, a UV-stable topcoat such as Solagard where the sun hits hardest.
Woolstore conversions and Kensington Banks strata
The Younghusband woolstore conversions and the body-corporate townhouse groups across Kensington Banks bring owners-corporation approvals, common-property schedules and residents to work around. We’ve handled apartment painting, covering strata interiors, shared common areas and whole-of-building facades across the inner north-west, and we take the building liaison off your hands so the job runs quietly around residents.
Meet the Newline Painting team
Quote to final coat, your Kensington job stays with one Newline crew, with nobody subcontracted in. From cottage exteriors around McCracken Street and Rankins Road to townhouse repaints in Kensington Banks and strata work in the Younghusband woolstores, the team is trade-qualified, background-checked and has worked Melbourne’s inner north-west for years. The faces you meet on day one are the faces at handover, and the written 7-year warranty is theirs to stand behind. Meet the full team →
Painters in Kensington's Nearby Suburbs
Kensington sits in a tight pocket between the racecourse, the river and the rail lines, and Newline’s painters across Melbourne work the whole pocket: the same crews and the same warranty, whether the job is on the cottage grid, across in North Melbourne, over the river with our Yarraville painting team, or up Mount Alexander Road alongside our Essendon painting crew.
By job type: interior, exterior, apartment, pre-sale and feature wall painting, across all of Melbourne.
Kensington painting, answered
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My Kensington cottage is in a heritage overlay. Can I repaint it?
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Do you repaint Kensington Banks townhouses?
What does Kensington’s position on the river flats do to exterior paint?
Can you paint apartments in the Younghusband woolstore conversions?
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What’s involved in getting a quote for a Kensington home?
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