Painters in South Melbourne, Melbourne
A written 7-year workmanship warranty, a fixed quote up front and tidy trade-qualified crews on every job: that is what Newline Painting brings to interior, exterior and owners-corporation work across South Melbourne and the 3205. Emerald Hill terrace or CBD-edge apartment, you can price the job online in about two minutes.
- 7-year workmanship warranty
- $20M public liability insurance
- Multi Award Winning Painters
- Free on-site quote and colour consult
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What South Melbourne 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
Interior work across the 3205 takes in terrace hallway arches, high ceilings, deep cornices and original timber trim as readily as the plasterboard of a newer apartment. Low-odour products, rooms sealed and dust-managed one at a time, and the furniture back where it started.
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Exterior Painting
Emerald Hill exteriors ask for real preparation: cracked render cut out and made good, cast-iron lace primed against rust, sash windows re-puttied, lead managed safely on the pre-1900 stock, then finished in Dulux Weathershield or Wattyl Solagard.
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Pre-Sale House Painting
When a South Melbourne terrace or apartment heads to auction, presentation carries the campaign. We deliver neutral, photograph-ready repaints on the clock, booked around your agent's shoot, open-for-inspection dates and settlement.
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Apartment Painting
Apartment interiors plus the shared spaces around them, lobbies, stairwells and corridors, from South Melbourne's older blocks to the newer CBD-edge buildings. Quotes come in owners-corporation-approval format, and we schedule around residents, lifts and building access hours.
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Feature Wall Painting
A single feature wall, chosen well, resets a room. We match the colour to the light, era and existing palette of your South Melbourne home: a deep heritage tone in a terrace parlour, gallery white in a converted studio.
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Epoxy Painting
Epoxy flooring for South Melbourne garages and basement car parks: high-gloss, hard-wearing and unbothered by tyre marks, oil, chips and stains.
Book commercial painting →What Changes the Price of a South Melbourne Painting Quote
Painting a house in South Melbourne 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. South Melbourne 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.
No rate card prices a South Melbourne repaint honestly: a double-fronted garden terrace, a Clarendon Street shopfront and a CBD-edge apartment are three different jobs. A few things set the real number, and our painting cost calculator will rough out a figure from them before we ever visit.
Surface area & number of coats
How much surface we paint sets the baseline. There is a real gap between refreshing two bedrooms and a hallway and taking a whole Victorian home through a complete interior repaint: double-height ceilings, long cornice runs, hallway arches and original timber trim all add hours, and the quote grows with them. What lands on your quote is the scope we measured, nothing rounded up.
Prep work required
What state the surfaces are in comes next, and around Emerald Hill it can outweigh size. Housing here is heavily pre-1900, so our crews arrive expecting lead beneath the old coats, flaking render on parapets, corrosion in the cast-iron lace and sash windows needing fresh putty before any primer. On a period exterior repaint that groundwork often takes longer than the topcoats. Skip it and the finish lets go early; do it and year ten still looks right.
Paint product specified
Which tin we specify shifts the price too: Dulux Wash & Wear keeps a budget honest, Haymes Ultra-Premium sits at the top of the range per litre, and Wattyl Solagard earns its keep on render and parapets that cop the afternoon sun. Your South Melbourne quote names the exact products we will use, and those are the ones that go on. No mid-job swaps.
Access & height
Access is the last. Two-storey terrace facades on narrow blocks call for scaffold and party-wall care; shopfront and studio repaints need work timed around trading hours; and apartment and common-area jobs bring lift bookings, lobby protection and owners-corporation sign-off. All routine for us; it just has to be walked and priced honestly before we commit to a figure.
A worked example for a South Melbourne home
Rate bands are only useful once you put them against a real house. Take a two-storey terrace in South Melbourne, a rendered facade, balcony and iron lacework.
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.
What we know about painting in South Melbourne
Heritage overlays across Emerald Hill
South Melbourne carries some of the densest heritage-overlay coverage in the City of Port Phillip, because Emerald Hill survives as one of Melbourne’s most intact Victorian precincts, and St Vincent Place, with its garden terraces, ranks among the strictest heritage precincts in the city. On overlaid streets, repainting an exterior in a new colour may require a permit, so we confirm your street’s overlay status while we quote and work to whatever the schedule allows.
Lead-safe work in a pre-1900 suburb
A large share of South Melbourne’s terraces and cottages were built before 1900, which makes lead paint a near-certainty somewhere under the existing coats. Any pre-1970 surface is treated as lead until a test clears it: wet-sanded under containment, residue caught on sheeting and disposed of correctly, never dry-sanded into a street of front doors that open straight onto the footpath.
Two-storey terraces, iron lace and hard sun
South Melbourne is inner-south, not beachfront; the enemies here are ultraviolet on north- and west-facing render and parapets, rust working through cast-iron lacework and balustrades, and the damp, shaded south walls under the mature canopy around St Vincent Gardens. Two-storey terrace facades also mean real access work: scaffold on narrow frontages, care over party walls, and verandah roofs treated as the fragile surfaces they are.
Shopfronts, studios and owners-corporation work
South Melbourne’s other half is commercial: Clarendon Street shopfronts, converted warehouse studios and offices toward the CBD edge, and newer apartment buildings with owners corporations. We repaint shopfronts around trading hours, quote common-property work in the format an OC can approve, and protect lobbies and lifts like our own. Walk-ups and mid-rise common areas are core work for us; full towers are not our pitch.
How to Book Your South Melbourne Painting Service
Get a free quote for your home
Book online or phone 1300 044 206. We visit and measure, talk through paint choices with you, then put scope, timing and a single fixed price in writing before you commit to anything.
Our painters get to work
Our trade-qualified painters prepare properly, with sanding, filling, sealing and lead-safe methods where a building's age demands them, then apply premium paint systems suited to each surface, in a terrace or an apartment alike.
Walkthrough and 7-year warranty
The last sign-off is yours. Together we inspect every room or elevation, sort any touch-ups while the crew is still on site, and you receive the 7-year workmanship warranty in writing.
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
Workmanship cover for seven years, in writing, on the finish itself, which matters on Emerald Hill render and iron lace, where a cheap job shows its shortcuts within a couple of winters. Anything that fails early gets repainted at our cost, not argued about.
$20M Insurance
Public liability cover of $20 million, kept current and documented: the certificate an owners corporation, a Clarendon Street landlord or a building manager will want to sight before anyone touches common property or a shared party wall.
Reliable Scheduling
Start dates that hold, and a schedule built around your actual constraints: a cafe or shop that has to keep trading through the repaint, a market-day parking window, or a renovation timeline where the painter must land between the plasterer and the floor sander.
Rated 4.8 by our customers
In Port Phillip a paint finish gets judged against some of Melbourne's best-kept houses, which is the standard we quote to.
Recent painting projects across Melbourne
Recent Newline Painting work on South Melbourne terraces and stairwells. On a period home the preparation is usually about half the labour, and it is what decides how long the finish lasts.
Meet the Newline Painting team
The crew you get in South Melbourne has already worked these streets: a full interior repaint of a Victorian home here early this year, a weatherboard cottage in 2024 and a two-storey terrace exterior before that: three real 3205 jobs, and one South Melbourne interior client has said as much in our Google reviews. The same painters run our jobs down the light-rail line, where our St Kilda painting crew works the deco flats, and every one of them is trade-qualified, background-checked and backed by the written 7-year warranty. Meet the full team →
Painters in South Melbourne's Nearby Suburbs
South Melbourne sits at the top of our inner-south run, and the same teams carry our Melbourne-wide painting service across the neighbouring suburbs: identical crews, warranty and paint systems whether the job is by the market or down at the bay.
By job type: interior, exterior, apartment, pre-sale and feature wall painting, across all of Melbourne.
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Start online for a price, or call and speak to the person doing the quote. One written itemised price and a firm start date.
Free on-site quote and colour consult. 7-year workmanship warranty. $20M public liability cover.
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