Painters in South Yarra, Melbourne
Newline Painting delivers interior, exterior and owners-corporation repaints across South Yarra and the 3141, from Victorian terraces to deco walk-ups and modern apartments. Fixed quotes in writing, tidy trade-qualified crews and a 7-year workmanship warranty on every finish. And because our own office is in South Yarra, quotes and start dates move fast. Price your job online in a couple of 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 Yarra 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, high ceilings, deep cornices and the original timber trim of South Yarra's terraces and Edwardian homes, plus the plaster and joinery of its apartments, painted with low-odour products, dust contained room by room, and everything back in its place before we leave.
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Exterior Painting
Rendered facades, parapets, iron lacework and sash windows across South Yarra's period streets. Full preparation comes first: crack repair, rust-primed metalwork and lead-safe handling on pre-1970 buildings. Topcoats are Dulux Weathershield or Wattyl Solagard systems.
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Pre-Sale House Painting
Getting a South Yarra terrace or apartment ready for sale in a market where presentation is the whole pitch. Fast, neutral interior and exterior refreshes timed to your campaign, photography and settlement dates.
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Apartment Painting
Our core South Yarra work: apartments, walk-up common areas, lobbies and stairwells from the deco blocks to the newer buildings near Chapel Street. We quote for owners-corporation approval and schedule around residents and lift access.
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Feature Wall Painting
One well-chosen wall can reset a whole room. We colour-match feature walls to a South Yarra home's light, era and existing palette, from heritage terrace tones to gallery white.
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Epoxy Painting
Durable, high-gloss epoxy for South Yarra garages and basement car-park floors, built for daily traffic and shrugging off chips, tyre marks, oil and stains.
Book commercial painting →What Changes the Price of a South Yarra Painting Quote
Painting a house in South Yarra 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 Yarra 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.
Nobody can price a South Yarra repaint from a rate card: a two-storey Victorian terrace, a deco walk-up lobby and a new Forrest Hill apartment are three different jobs. These are a few things that actually set the number, and our painting cost calculator gives you a ballpark before anyone visits.
Surface area & number of coats
The biggest lever is simply how much we’re painting. A double-fronted Edwardian house near Fawkner Park, with its high ceilings, deep cornices and original timber trim, carries far more paintable surface than a two-bedroom apartment, and a whole-home interior repaint is a different scope again to refreshing a hallway and two bedrooms. The quote reflects exactly what is being painted, nothing more.
Prep work required
The second lever is condition: what the surfaces demand before any paint goes near them. South Yarra’s terraces and walk-ups are overwhelmingly pre-1970, so lead-safe handling is routine, along with re-rendering hairline-cracked facades, priming rusting iron lacework and re-puttying original sash windows. On a period exterior repaint that preparation is routinely the larger share of the labour, and it is the difference between a finish that fails early and one that still holds in year ten.
Paint product specified
Paint selection shifts the number as well: Dulux Wash & Wear costs less per litre than Haymes Ultra-Premium, and where a rendered parapet or west-facing terrace facade takes the full afternoon sun, Wattyl Solagard is our call. The products named on your South Yarra quote are the products that go on the wall, never a cheaper tin swapped in mid-job.
Access & height
Access is priced last. Terraces on narrow blocks often mean rear-laneway scaffold access and party-wall care; apartment and common-area work adds lift bookings, protection of lobbies and owners-corporation sign-off windows. None of it is a problem. It just has to be priced honestly, so we walk the building before we commit to a figure.
A worked example for a South Yarra home
Rate bands are only useful once you put them against a real house. Take an apartment or period terrace in South Yarra, compact rooms or full-height period walls.
of paintable interior surface, which is the number that actually drives the quote, not the floor area.
per square metre for standard interior work.
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
A written seven-year workmanship guarantee on every finish. On a South Yarra terrace facade that means the render, trim and lacework still look right seasons after the scaffold comes down, and if anything fails early, we come back and fix it. Being based locally, coming back is easy.
$20M Insurance
Full $20 million public liability insurance, with a current certificate handed over whenever an owners corporation or building manager asks before common-property work starts, and the same cover protecting a single-fronted cottage and its party walls.
Reliable Scheduling
Start dates that hold and a timeline shaped around your real constraints: a settlement date, a lift booking and lobby-access window set by the building manager, or a renovation schedule where the painter must land exactly between the plasterer and the floor sander.
Rated 4.8 by our customers
In Stonnington 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 South Yarra
Two councils, real heritage overlays
South Yarra splits at Punt Road: most of the suburb sits in the City of Stonnington, while the Domain side to the west is City of Melbourne. Both councils apply heritage overlays across the Victorian terrace and Edwardian precincts, including streets around Como House and towards Fawkner Park, so an exterior colour change can need a permit. We flag it at quote stage and paint to the schedule the overlay allows.
Lead-safe work in a pre-1970 suburb
South Yarra’s terraces, Edwardian houses and art-deco walk-ups were almost all painted with lead-based products at some point before 1970. Our rule is simple: any pre-1970 surface is handled as lead unless a test clears it: wet-sanded under containment, residue captured on drop sheets and disposed of correctly, because dry-sanding would drift lead dust through hallways, light-wells and shared stairwells.
Render, iron lace and river-fringe greenery
South Yarra is river-fringe, not coastal. The enemies here are afternoon sun on west-facing render and parapets, rust creeping through cast-iron lacework, and the shade and damp thrown by mature canopy near the Royal Botanic Gardens edge. We prime metalwork properly, use UV-stable topcoats where the sun hits and mould-resistant systems on the walls that never see it.
Owners-corporation work at scale
Much of South Yarra lives in apartments, deco walk-ups through to the mid-rise buildings around Forrest Hill and the Chapel Street end. We handle owners-corporation work at that scale: quotes built for OC approval, lift and lobby protection, scheduling around residents, and common-property finishes from stairwells to car parks. Full high-rise towers aren’t our pitch; walk-ups and mid-rise common areas are.
Recent painting projects across Melbourne
A few recent Newline Painting jobs on period homes and apartments nearby. Each was quoted and finished by the crew that would do yours. On a period home the preparation is usually about half the labour, and it is what decides how long the finish lasts.
How to Book Your South Yarra Painting Service
Get a free quote for your home
Start with the online form or a phone call. Our office sits in South Yarra itself, so a walk-through is quick to arrange, and scope, products and a fixed price are confirmed in writing before anything is booked.
Our painters get to work
Our trade-qualified painters do the preparation properly: sanding, filling, sealing and lead-safe handling where the building's age calls for it. Premium paints then go on for a finish that lasts, in a terrace or an apartment alike.
Walkthrough and 7-year warranty
Nothing is finished until you say so. We walk the completed job together, touch up anything you flag on the spot, and hand over the written 7-year workmanship warranty before final payment.
Meet the Newline Painting team
South Yarra isn't just a suburb we service. Newline Painting's own office is on Claremont Street, so the crew that quotes your job is based minutes away, not across town. They've repainted a full home on Nicholson Street up the road, apartments and common areas around the Chapel Street end, and period exteriors through Stonnington. Every one of them trade-qualified and background-checked, every finish carrying the written 7-year warranty. Meet the full team →
Painters in South Yarra's Nearby Suburbs
From our South Yarra base, Newline’s painters cover the rest of Melbourne too: the same crews, the same warranty and the same paint systems whether the job is over Punt Road, across the river with our painters in Richmond or down Chapel Street in Prahran.
By job type: interior, exterior, apartment, pre-sale and feature wall painting, across all of Melbourne.
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Price the job online, or call and speak to whoever will be quoting it. You get one itemised written price and a date we hold to.
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