Painters in Collingwood, Melbourne
Every Collingwood repaint we quote comes as one written price, a start date we keep, and a 7-year warranty on the workmanship: no vague estimates, no surprise extras. As painters serving all of Melbourne we take on interior, exterior, pre-sale and strata jobs, Victorian cottages and warehouse conversions alike, and the whole quote can be done online in around two minutes.
- 7-year workmanship warranty
- $20M public liability insurance
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What Collingwood 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 high Victorian ceilings, picture rails and cornices that fill Collingwood’s single-fronted cottages, plus the exposed-brick and open-plan interiors of warehouse conversions. We work with low-VOC paints, keep dust under control, and mask and cover floors and furnishings before a lid comes off.
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Exterior Painting
Weatherboard, render and heritage-brick exteriors on Collingwood’s cottages and converted factories. Full preparation, lead-safe handling on pre-1970 homes, and Dulux Weathershield or Wattyl Solagard systems that stand up to inner-north weather and traffic grime.
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Pre-Sale House Painting
Getting a Collingwood cottage or apartment ready for auction or sale. Fast, neutral interior and exterior refreshes timed around your campaign and settlement dates, so the property presents at its best for an inner-north buyer.
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Apartment Painting
Interiors and common areas in the warehouse conversions and apartment blocks off Smith Street, Johnston Street and Wellington Street. We deal with the owners corporation and building manager directly, so access and timing are sorted before the crew arrives.
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Feature Wall Painting
A single bold wall to lift a Collingwood living room, studio or open-plan warehouse space, colour-matched to your home’s light, era and existing palette.
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Epoxy Painting
Durable, high-gloss epoxy for Collingwood garage floors, warehouse slabs, basements and concrete surfaces that shrug off chips, oil and stains.
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Heritage overlays cover much of Collingwood
Large parts of Collingwood sit inside City of Yarra heritage overlays: the workers’-cottage streets around Wellington, Cambridge and Sackville Streets, the Smith Street commercial precinct, and the surviving Foy & Gibson industrial buildings off Oxford and Stanley Streets. If you are repainting a contributory or heritage-listed cottage or factory exterior and meaningfully changing the colour scheme, you may need a planning permit first. Before we quote a new colour for a Collingwood cottage or factory frontage, we walk the overlay maps with you and confirm whether council sign-off is needed first.
Lead paint is the norm in Collingwood’s old cottages
Most of Collingwood is single-fronted Victorian workers' cottages, and almost every one of them was painted with lead-based product at some stage before 1970. Our assumption is lead until a test says otherwise. That means wet sanding inside containment, drop sheets down, a HEPA clean-down at the end of each day and waste bagged for proper disposal. Dry-sanding is off the table: on a block this tight the dust goes straight through the cottage and into the rear yard next door.
Industrial prep on brick and factory conversions
Collingwood is Melbourne’s former manufacturing heart, and its warehouse and live-work conversions bring surfaces a suburban home never has: exposed red brick, old cement render, rolled-steel columns and factory-sash windows. We match the system to the substrate: breathable masonry sealers on heritage brick, direct-to-metal primers on structural steel, and hard-wearing finishes that suit a high-traffic, open-plan home carved out of an old factory rather than a plastered cottage wall.
Cottage detail and apartments off Smith Street
Collingwood asks for two quite different trades. Inside the cottages it is close work: clean lines cut into high Victorian cornices, enamel matched on hundred-year-old timber, rooms narrow enough that the job has to stay tidy to stay liveable. Then there are the converted factories and apartment blocks on Smith, Johnston and Wellington Streets, where the schedule is set by owners-corporation approvals, common-property access and the trading hours of the hospitality tenants below. We run the owners-corporation liaison ourselves on those jobs so the work keeps moving.
How to Book Your Collingwood Painting Service
Get a free quote for your home
Request a free quote online or by phone, and we’ll suggest the right system for your Collingwood property: a cottage exterior, period rooms inside, or a converted-warehouse apartment.
Our painters get to work
From single-fronted Victorian cottages to brick factory conversions and modern apartments, our Collingwood painters use premium paints and thorough preparation to deliver smooth, durable finishes that suit each building’s era and materials.
Walkthrough and 7-year warranty
You do the final inspection with us, wall by wall. Anything short of right is fixed before we pack up, and the 7-year written warranty takes over from there.
What Changes the Price of a Collingwood Painting Quote
Painting a house in Collingwood 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. Collingwood 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.
There is no fixed “Collingwood price list”: a tight worker’s cottage and a converted brick factory are entirely different jobs. A few factors do most of the work on your quote, and you can pressure-test the number with our online cost calculator first.
Surface area & number of coats
Cottage or conversion, the surface count comes first. A single-fronted Collingwood cottage has less floor area than the double-fronted homes further out, but tight rooms, high Victorian ceilings and narrow hallways still add up in paintable surface. A converted warehouse apartment is the opposite, all big open volumes, exposed brick and tall factory windows, and the quote for an interior repaint reflects which of the two you have.
Prep work required
Prep effort is the next thing we weigh. Lead-safe sanding and filling on Collingwood’s pre-1970 cottages, cutting back flaking render on old brick facades, and sealing the tired plaster you often find behind a factory conversion. On a heritage exterior repaint prep can be more than half the labour, and it is what decides whether the finish lasts five years or fifteen.
Paint product specified
Paint choice nudges the number as well: Dulux Wash & Wear sits below Haymes Ultra-Premium, and we spec Wattyl Solagard where a Collingwood facade cops years of inner-city traffic grime and harsh sun. Once a Collingwood quote is signed, the paint spec on it is locked in, and a cheaper tin never sneaks onto the job partway through.
Access & height
Last comes how we get at the walls. Collingwood terraces sit hard against the footpath with tight rear lanes, so setup and protection take longer than an open suburban block. The warehouse-conversion and apartment buildings off Smith Street need owners-corporation sign-off, sometimes a raised work platform for double-height walls, and scheduling around tenants and ground-floor businesses. We build all of it into the price upfront.
A worked example for a Collingwood home
Rate bands are only useful once you put them against a real house. Take a single-fronted workers' cottage in Collingwood, tight rooms and original timber joinery.
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.
Recent painting projects across Melbourne
A few recent Newline Painting jobs around the inner north, terraces and converted industrial alike. On a period home the preparation is usually about half the labour, and it is what decides how long the finish lasts.
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 finish carries a written 7-year workmanship guarantee, so a repainted Collingwood cottage or warehouse-conversion apartment holds up well past handover day.
$20M Insurance
We hold $20 million in public liability cover and can send certificates of currency on request: the paperwork a strata committee or a converted-factory building manager will want sighted before anyone lifts a brush.
Reliable Scheduling
Firm start dates and a clear timeline, mapped to your situation, be that a spring auction, a settlement handover, or simply getting the terrace back in order, instead of a loose promise to turn up sometime.
Rated 4.8 by our customers
In Yarra a paint finish gets judged against some of Melbourne's best-kept houses, which is the standard we quote to.
Meet the Newline Painting team
The Newline Painting crew on your Collingwood job is the same crew that quotes it and finishes it. No subcontracted strangers. From lead-safe cottage exteriors off Cambridge and Sackville Streets to warehouse-conversion interiors and shopfront repaints on Johnston Street, the team is trade-qualified, background-checked and led by painters who have worked the City of Yarra and Melbourne’s inner north for years. One crew, one standard, and a written 7-year warranty behind the work. Meet the full team →
Painters in Collingwood's Nearby Suburbs
Newline covers Collingwood and the whole inner north: one operation, one warranty, one set of paint systems. Ten minutes up High Street our Northcote painting crew runs the same playbook, our Fitzroy repaints start just over Smith Street, and Carlton sits just as close, with painting in Abbotsford covered right down to the river.
By job type: interior, exterior, apartment, pre-sale and feature wall painting, across all of Melbourne.
Collingwood painting, answered
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Do you paint Collingwood’s Victorian workers’ cottages?
My Collingwood home is in a heritage overlay. Can I repaint it?
How do you handle lead paint in older Collingwood houses?
Do you paint warehouse conversions and factory apartments?
Can you paint apartments and common areas off Smith Street?
Do you offer pre-sale painting for Collingwood homes?
Can you help choose heritage-appropriate colours?
What areas around Collingwood do you cover?
Do you provide a workmanship guarantee?
Get a quote for your Collingwood repaint
Price the job online, or call and speak to whoever will be quoting it. One written quote, itemised, with the start date agreed up front.
Free on-site quote and colour consult. 7-year workmanship warranty. $20M public liability cover.
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