Painters in St Kilda, Melbourne
Newline Painting gives St Kilda homes a smooth, lasting repaint with none of the mess: interior, exterior, pre-sale and owners-corporation work, from Edwardian villas to deco flats. You get a fixed written quote up front, a trade-qualified crew that turns up when it says it will, and a written 7-year warranty on the finish. Start with an instant online quote in under a minute.
- 7-year workmanship warranty
- $20M public liability insurance
- Multi Award Winning Painters
- Free on-site quote and colour consult
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What St Kilda 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 curved plaster, stepped cornices and timber picture rails that fill St Kilda’s deco flats and Edwardian villas. We work clean in occupied apartments: low-odour paints, sealed dust control and floors and furniture properly covered.
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Exterior Painting
Rendered deco facades, weatherboard villas and parapets built to face Port Phillip Bay. Full salt-air preparation, rust treatment on steel windows, lead-safe handling on pre-1970 buildings, and Dulux Weathershield or Wattyl Solagard systems matched to the exposure.
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Pre-Sale House Painting
Getting a St Kilda flat or villa ready for auction or lease. Fast, neutral interior and exterior refreshes timed around your campaign, photography and settlement dates.
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Apartment Painting
Stairwells, lobbies, hallways and facades in St Kilda’s interwar apartment blocks. We prepare owners-corporation quotes for committee approval and schedule around residents and tenants.
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Feature Wall Painting
A single bold wall to lift a St Kilda living room, bedroom or hallway, colour-matched to your home’s light, era and existing palette.
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Epoxy Painting
Durable, high-gloss epoxy for St Kilda garage floors, basement car parks and concrete surfaces that shrug off chips, oil and stains.
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Heritage overlays cover much of St Kilda
City of Port Phillip heritage overlays take in large parts of St Kilda: the Esplanade, the Fitzroy Street and Acland Street precincts and many of the residential blocks between them. If you are repainting a contributory or heritage-listed exterior and changing the colour scheme, council may need to approve it first. We help you read the overlay and work out whether your repaint needs a permit before we quote a colour change.
Lead paint is common in older St Kilda buildings
Most St Kilda buildings that pre-date 1970, the Edwardian villas and the interwar deco blocks alike, carry lead-based paint somewhere under later coats. We treat every pre-1970 surface as lead until tested: contained wet-sanding, drop-sheet capture, HEPA clean-up and correct disposal, never the dry-sanding that drifts lead dust through an apartment building’s shared stairwell.
Salt air off the bay sets the coating system
St Kilda exteriors cop salt-laden wind straight off Port Phillip Bay and hard afternoon UV on the west-facing facades that look towards the water. That combination chalks render, blisters window sills and corrodes steel-framed deco windows faster than anything inland. We specify premium exterior systems, Dulux Weathershield or Wattyl Solagard, and honest maintenance cycles, so the coating weathers slowly and predictably instead of failing in patches.
Deco apartments and owners-corporation work
St Kilda holds some of the densest interwar Art Deco apartment stock in Melbourne, and repainting it is its own trade: crisp parapet lines, render and crack repair on curved balconies, and schemes that respect the building’s geometry. Our recent common-area repaint in a Dalgety Street deco block, fresh walls and ceilings around the original zigzag steel balustrade, is typical of the work. We manage the owners-corporation side too: quotes for committee approval, notice to residents and scheduling around tenants.
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
A written seven-year workmanship guarantee on every finish: the timeframe that matters when salt air off the bay is constantly testing a St Kilda exterior.
$20M Insurance
$20 million public liability cover with certificates of currency on hand, the paperwork every owners corporation in St Kilda’s apartment blocks asks for before a painter touches common property.
Reliable Scheduling
Firm start dates and clear timelines, planned around body-corporate notice periods, tenant access and pre-sale campaign deadlines, not a vague promise to turn up eventually.
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 jobs around St Kilda and the inner south, period detail included. 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 St Kilda Painting Quote
Painting a house in St Kilda 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. St Kilda 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.
No painter can hand you a fixed "St Kilda price list" before seeing the property. A one-bedroom deco flat and a double-fronted Edwardian villa are entirely different jobs. Our paint cost calculator gives you an instant ballpark; what moves the final St Kilda number comes down to a few things.
Surface area & number of coats
The first is how much building you actually own. In St Kilda that ranges from a single apartment interior in an interwar deco block to a full Edwardian villa with high ceilings, deep skirtings and original timber fretwork. A whole-of-building common-area repaint for an owners corporation is priced differently again: per stairwell, lobby and hallway, not per room.
Prep work required
The second is what the bay has done to the surfaces. Salt-laden air is hard on St Kilda exteriors: chalking render, blistering sills and rusting steel windows need proper sanding, priming and repair before colour goes anywhere near them. Add lead-safe handling on the suburb’s pre-1970 Edwardian and interwar stock, and prep is routinely more than half the labour on an exterior repaint.
Paint product specified
Paint choice moves the number too: Dulux Wash & Wear sits below Haymes Ultra-Premium, and Wattyl Solagard is what we specify where a St Kilda exterior faces the bay’s salt and westerly sun head-on. Those named products are exactly what turns up on site. No swapping to a cheaper tin once the job has started.
Access & height
The last is how we reach the work. Two and three-storey walk-up blocks need scaffold or a raised work platform for parapets and rendered facades, and owners-corporation jobs add approvals, notice periods and working around tenants. A west-facing wall over a busy Fitzroy Street footpath is a different setup to a quiet Blessington Street garden elevation, and we price all of it before we start.
A worked example for a St Kilda home
Rate bands are only useful once you put them against a real house. Take a deco apartment in St Kilda, curved render, parapet lines and steel windows.
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.
How to Book Your St Kilda Painting Service
Get a free quote for your home
Request a free quote online or by phone. We’ll confirm scope and access, then recommend the right approach for your property, whether that’s a single flat, a full house or a whole building’s common areas.
Our painters get to work
Our painters match premium coating systems and thorough salt-air preparation to each building’s era and exposure, then work clean around you: floors covered, furniture protected, low-odour paints inside.
Walkthrough and 7-year warranty
Before we sign off we walk the whole job with you and fix anything that isn’t right on the spot. After that, the written 7-year warranty stands behind every St Kilda finish.
Meet the Newline Painting team
The Newline crew on your St Kilda job is the same crew that quotes it and finishes it, with no subcontracted strangers. From deco stairwells off Dalgety Street to salt-worn villa exteriors near the Esplanade and owners-corporation repaints around Acland Street, the team is trade-qualified, background-checked and led by painters who have worked Port Phillip’s bayside buildings for years. The crew you meet at the quote is the crew on the ladder, and every finish carries the written 7-year warranty. Meet the full team →
Painters in St Kilda's Nearby Suburbs
Newline services St Kilda and the surrounding bayside and inner-south suburbs: the same crew of Melbourne painters, the same warranty and the same paint systems, whether the job sits on Acland Street, over in Elwood or up towards Albert Park and South Yarra.
By job type: interior, exterior, apartment, pre-sale and feature wall painting, across all of Melbourne.
St Kilda painting, answered
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