Painters in Fitzroy, Melbourne
Your Fitzroy repaint: priced in writing, started on the date we agree, and finished to a written 7-year warranty. Our painting team in Melbourne covers interiors, exteriors, pre-sale repaints and body-corporate work, from iron-lace terraces to warehouse conversions. The instant quote sits online, a few minutes start to finish.
- 7-year workmanship warranty
- $20M public liability insurance
- Multi Award Winning Painters
- Free on-site quote and colour consult
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What Fitzroy 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 deep cornices, picture rails and ceiling roses that fill Fitzroy’s Victorian terraces. Expect low-VOC paints, dust kept in check, and your floors and furniture sheeted and taped off well before the first coat.
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Exterior Painting
Rendered, bluestone-and-brick and cast-iron-lace terrace exteriors built for Fitzroy’s tight, shoulder-to-shoulder streets. Full preparation, lead-safe handling on pre-1900 homes, and Dulux Weathershield or Wattyl Solagard systems that stand up to the weather.
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Pre-Sale House Painting
Getting a Fitzroy terrace or warehouse conversion 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.
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Apartment Painting
Interiors and common areas in the warehouse conversions and apartment blocks around Brunswick, Gertrude and Smith Streets. In these conversions the Owners Corporation runs the diary, so we lock in access and timing through them and the building manager before work starts.
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Feature Wall Painting
A single bold wall to lift a Fitzroy living room, study or hallway, colour-matched to your terrace's light, era and existing palette.
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Epoxy Painting
Durable, high-gloss epoxy for Fitzroy garage floors, basements, courtyards and concrete surfaces that shrug off chips, oil and stains.
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Recent Newline Painting jobs on inner-north terraces and warehouse conversions. On a period home the preparation is usually about half the labour, and it is what decides how long the finish lasts.
What we know about painting in Fitzroy
Heritage overlays are dense and strict in Fitzroy
Fitzroy is effectively one continuous Victorian streetscape, and almost all of it sits inside City of Yarra heritage overlays: the Brunswick and Gertrude Street precincts, Royal Terrace on Nicholson Street, and the terrace rows off Rose, Young and Napier Streets. If you are repainting a contributory or heritage-listed terrace and meaningfully changing the colour scheme, you may need a City of Yarra planning permit first. We help you read the overlay and work out whether your repaint needs council approval before we quote a colour change.
Lead paint is the norm in Fitzroy’s pre-1900 terraces
Fitzroy was Melbourne's first suburb, laid out in 1839, and almost none of its terrace and cottage stock post-dates 1900. Lead paint here is the rule rather than the exception, so we price every old surface as lead work from the outset. Sanding happens wet and under containment, sheets catch the flakes, the HEPA vacuum does the clean-up and the waste is disposed of to regulation. What we will not do is dry-sand a terrace and let the dust carry into the house or out over a shared bluestone laneway.
Cast-iron lace, party walls and weather exposure
Fitzroy’s signature is boom-style cast-iron lacework and rendered terrace facades sitting shoulder to shoulder on the street. Shared party walls hold damp, north-facing render bakes in the summer sun, and flaking enamel on the lace, balustrades and verandah posts is usually the first thing to fail. We match the system to each element: UV-stable membranes on exposed render, correct primers and enamels on cast iron, and mould-resistant coatings on shaded, tight-set walls. That way the whole facade weathers evenly instead of one part failing early.
Warehouse conversions and body-corporate work off Brunswick Street
Behind the terrace facades, Fitzroy runs on converted warehouses, shopfront residences and apartment blocks around Brunswick, Gertrude and Smith Streets. That work answers to the owners corporation rather than a single homeowner: approvals first, then common-property scheduling, then access worked out around ground-floor retail and tenants. We have painted strata interiors, common areas and apartment exteriors across the inner north, and we deal with the building manager directly so nobody on site is waiting on a decision.
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 7-year workmanship guarantee sits behind every finish, so a Fitzroy terrace repaint still looks right seasons after the crew has rolled out.
$20M Insurance
We carry $20 million in public liability cover and hand over certificates of currency on request, the paperwork a warehouse-conversion owners corporation wants sighted before a ladder touches the wall.
Reliable Scheduling
Firm start dates and a clear timeline, set around whatever drives your Fitzroy job: an auction on a bluestone-lane terrace, a settlement handover, or simply getting the home back to normal, rather than a loose promise to turn up eventually.
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.
What Changes the Price of a Fitzroy Painting Quote
Painting a house in Fitzroy 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. Fitzroy 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.
Surface area & number of coats
No painter can hand you a fixed “Fitzroy price list” before seeing the home: the terraces and cottages here are almost all pre-1900 and no two are the same. Three things move the number most, while our painting cost calculator turns them into a rough Fitzroy figure in about a minute.
Prep work required
Size and scope come first. A typical Fitzroy terrace is single- or double-fronted, with lofty Victorian ceilings, deep cornices, ceiling roses and an ornate cast-iron verandah, and it carries far more paintable surface than its narrow frontage suggests. Two coats over decorative plaster, a return verandah and a tall stair void make a full interior repaint a different job to a one-coat cottage refresh, and the quote reflects that.
Paint product specified
Condition and preparation are next. On Fitzroy’s near-universal pre-1900 stock that means lead-safe handling as standard, plus stripping flaking enamel off cast-iron lace, filling cracked render and bluestone-course pointing, and treating rising damp and mould on shaded party walls. On a heritage terrace exterior repaint, prep can be more than half the labour, and it decides whether the finish lasts five years or fifteen.
Access & height
Paint choice shifts the number as well: Dulux Wash & Wear sits below Haymes Ultra-Premium, and we spec Wattyl Solagard where a Fitzroy exterior is left open to harsh weather down a shaded bluestone lane. What lands on the quote is what goes on the wall. The tin never gets swapped for a cheaper one once the job is under way.
A worked example for a Fitzroy home
Rate bands are only useful once you put them against a real house. Take a Victorian terrace in Fitzroy, cast-iron lacework and a rendered street facade.
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 Fitzroy Painting Service
Get a free quote for your home
Start with a free quote, online or by phone. We inspect, confirm scope and timing, and put an itemised price in writing for your Fitzroy terrace, cottage or conversion before anything starts.
Our painters get to work
From single-fronted worker’s cottages to boom-style iron-lace terraces and converted warehouses, our Fitzroy painters use premium paints and thorough, lead-safe preparation to deliver smooth, durable finishes that suit each property’s Victorian era and detail.
Walkthrough and 7-year warranty
The last step is a walkthrough of the finished rooms with you. Anything you flag is put right before the crew leaves, and the written 7-year warranty stands over every painted surface.
Meet the Newline Painting team
The Newline Painting crew on your Fitzroy job is the same crew that quotes it and finishes it, with no subcontracted strangers. From cast-iron terrace facades on Nicholson and Napier Streets to period interiors off Gertrude Street, warehouse-conversion repaints near Brunswick Street and Abbotsford repaints by the river, the team is trade-qualified, background-checked and led by painters who have worked Melbourne’s inner north and its heritage terraces for years. Same faces, same standards, and a written 7-year warranty on the finish. Meet the full team →
Painters in Fitzroy's Nearby Suburbs
Newline services Fitzroy and the surrounding inner-north suburbs. Same team, same warranty and the same paint systems, whether the job sits on Brunswick Street, over in Carlton, with our painters in Collingwood across Smith Street, or up the hill with our painters in Northcote.
By job type: interior, exterior, apartment, pre-sale and feature wall painting, across all of Melbourne.
Fitzroy painting, answered
Do you service Fitzroy?
Do you paint Fitzroy’s Victorian terraces?
My Fitzroy home is in a heritage overlay. Can I repaint it?
How do you handle lead paint in older Fitzroy houses?
Can you paint warehouse conversions and apartments off Brunswick Street?
Do you offer pre-sale painting for Fitzroy homes?
Can you help choose heritage-appropriate colours for a terrace?
What areas around Fitzroy do you cover?
Do you provide a workmanship guarantee?
How do I get a Fitzroy painting job quoted and booked?
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