Dupaint is an established painting company operating since 1998, providing professional painting services to Newtown and the Inner West from our Glebe office on Bridge Road. We paint residential and commercial properties right across Newtown NSW 2042, from Victorian terraces on the back streets to the shopfronts and cafés along King Street. As Dulux Accredited painters and members of Master Painters Australia, we hold NSW Painting and Decorating Contractors Licence 494827C, carry $20M public liability insurance, and back every painting project with a 5-year workmanship warranty.
Newtown is not a suburb of identical houses. A 19th century terrace with ornate cornices, a converted warehouse apartment and a café fitout on King Street each need different preparation, different products and a different sequence of work. Picking the right painter matters more here than it does in a newer suburb, because the mistakes are harder to undo.
Our work in Newtown covers:
Whether it is a fresh coat on a bedroom or a full repaint of a heritage terrace, the same team, the same preparation standards and the same high quality paints apply.
Choosing a painter means letting a team into your home or business, so it pays to know who you are dealing with. Dupaint has painted homes and businesses across Sydney’s Inner West for more than 25 years, led hands on by founder and director Maz Nassimi. We are a fully licensed and insured painting company with a team of 15+ painters, not a one person operation, so your Newtown project is staffed, supervised and finished to a professional standard.
Yes. Dupaint holds NSW Painting and Decorating Contractors Licence 494827C and carries $20M public liability insurance under policy BP2768149. Both can be verified through NSW Fair Trading, and both appear on every written quote.
Reliability is the part most people care about and the part hardest to judge before you book. We quote in writing, we turn up when we say we will, and we finish the detail work properly rather than rushing the last ten per cent. That is what makes a reliable painter worth having, and it is why Dupaint is highly recommended by homeowners across Newtown, Erskineville and Enmore, with a good share of our local work coming from neighbours and repeat clients.
Interior painting is about preparation as much as paint. We patch cracks, fill nail holes, sand back flaking areas, seal problem surfaces and protect your floors and furniture before a brush touches the walls. Interior walls, ceilings, architraves and doors are cut in by hand so the lines are straight and the finish is even under Newtown’s low, warm terrace lighting. Our default interior product is Dulux Wash & Wear, applied in two full coats. If you want one wall to carry the room, we can add a feature wall in a deeper tone or a decorative finish. See our full interior painting service for what is involved.
Exterior painting in Newtown means dealing with age. Terrace facades carry decades of coatings, and once paint cracks or lifts, water finds its way into the render and brickwork behind it. We strip failed coatings, repair the substrate, prime correctly, and rebuild the finish with Dulux Weathershield or, on metal surfaces, Dulux Metalshield. Where a two storey facade needs scaffolding, it is erected by licensed scaffolders to AS/NZS 1576. The result is a facade that is protected, not simply freshened up. More on our exterior painting service.
Our residential painters work on everything from a single room refresh to a whole house repaint before a sale or after a renovation. Most Newtown residential painting jobs run on tight sites with narrow access and shared walls, so we plan the sequence carefully, keep the work area clean at the end of each day, and work around your household rather than through it. Full details on our residential painters page, or see our house painting service for whole home projects.
Newtown is not only homes. Our commercial painters look after retail shopfronts, cafés, offices and hospitality venues along and around King Street, and our strata painters handle apartment blocks, stairwells, lobbies and common areas. Commercial properties need scheduling as much as painting, so we offer after hours and weekend work, included in your quote at no additional charge on most commercial projects, to keep you trading and keep residents undisturbed. See our commercial painters page for the full scope of our commercial painting services.
Interior painting across Sydney generally runs $40 to $80 per square metre and exterior painting $50 to $100 per square metre, both including preparation, two coats and cleanup. A full interior repaint of a three bedroom home sits between $4,000 and $8,000, an apartment or unit between $2,500 and $6,000, and a combined interior and exterior repaint of a four bedroom house between $8,000 and $18,000.
| Service | Typical range | Includes |
|---|---|---|
| Interior painting (per sqm) | $40 to $80 | Prep, 2 coats, cleanup |
| Exterior painting (per sqm) | $50 to $100 | Wash, prep, 2 coats, cleanup |
| Apartment or unit repaint | $2,500 to $6,000 | Depends on size and scope |
| 3-bed house interior | $4,000 to $8,000 | Walls, ceilings, trims |
| 4-bed full repaint | $8,000 to $18,000 | Interior and exterior |
Newtown tends to sit at the upper end of those ranges for a given floor area, and the housing stock is the reason. A Victorian terrace carries ornate cornices, picture rails, sash windows and multiple door sets, and every one of them takes brush time that flat modern walls do not. Narrow site access and scaffolding on a two storey facade push the exterior figure up again. A converted warehouse apartment off King Street usually lands at the lower end instead, because the work is contained and the ceilings are standard height.
Other things that move the number are significant surface repair, lead paint removal on pre-1970s homes, high ceilings that need scaffolding inside, and specialty finishes. Every Newtown quote is fixed price, given in writing after a free on-site inspection, and itemised by room, surface and number of coats, so there are no hourly surprises.
Newtown sits in the Inner West Council area and grew up through the 19th century, which is exactly what gives the suburb its character and its paintwork headaches. Between the heritage terraces, the constant foot traffic around King Street, and Sydney’s weather, local homes and businesses face a specific set of problems. Here is what we see most often in Newtown NSW 2042, and what we do about it.
Newtown’s exposed terrace facades take a beating from weather and traffic pollution, and once paint cracks or peels it lets moisture into the render and brickwork underneath. We strip back failed coatings, repair the substrate, and rebuild the finish with a system suited to the surface rather than a quick recoat that fails again in two summers.
Newtown terraces are solid brick with no cavity, often over original lime render, and rising damp will push new paint straight off the wall if it is not diagnosed before the first coat goes on. Old guttering and blocked downpipes cause the same trouble from above. We identify the source, dry and treat the affected area, apply a stain blocking sealer, then repaint, so your ceilings and walls stay clean instead of ghosting through a month later.
Many Newtown homes pre-date the 1970s, which means older layers may contain lead paint, a genuine health risk to young children if it is disturbed carelessly. For any property built before 1970 we follow SafeWork NSW guidelines on lead paint identification and safe removal before new coatings go on, so your terrace can be restored without putting your household at risk.
Period architecture rewards proper preparation: correct prep on ornate trims and cornices, hand work on cast iron lace, and finishes that suit the era of the home. Cutting a clean line around 140 year old plasterwork is closer to an art than a trade skill, and it is the kind of detail our painters do every week.
Colour is the other half of it. Much of Newtown, including the King Street and Enmore Road frontages, falls within a heritage conservation area, so exterior colours need to sit inside the palette the council’s Development Control Plan allows. We work within Inner West Council’s DCP and heritage colour palettes, advise on approved schemes for your street, and prepare large-format samples on site for your sign-off before any preparation starts. See our heritage painters page for how we approach period properties.
Newtown invites bold choices, but getting the palette right, inside and out, is harder than it looks. Sydney’s strong natural light also changes how a colour reads on the wall compared with a showroom swatch, which is why our free initial consultation uses large-format Dulux sample cards viewed in your actual rooms and lighting. You get expert advice on colour selection at no extra charge, drawing on the Dulux, Taubmans and Resene ranges, and we can match an existing colour if you only need part of a space redone.
A flawless finish is not luck, it is sequence. Here is how a typical Newtown painting project runs.
If something is not right at the walk through, we come back and fix it before the job is signed off. That is what the 5-year warranty covers, and it is the only reason it is worth having in writing.
wo recent local jobs from the Dupaint Glebe team:
Working from our Glebe office, Dupaint covers Newtown and the surrounding suburbs across the Inner West and through to the Sydney CBD:
Camperdown (2050) mixes student housing around the University of Sydney with freestanding homes, so most of our work here is interior repaints between tenancies.
Erskineville (2043) is largely single-fronted terraces and converted warehouse apartments, where exterior jobs usually mean parapet repair before topcoat.
Enmore (2042) shares Newtown’s heritage conservation frontages along Enmore Road, so shopfront colours follow the same council palette rules.
Petersham (2049) has more freestanding Federation stock with timber weatherboard and decorative trims, which need sanding and priming rather than a straight recoat.
St Peters (2044) and Sydenham (2044) combine heritage cottages with converted industrial spaces, so we move between lime render and painted steel on the same street.
We also paint homes and commercial properties in Stanmore (2048), Glebe (2037), Leichhardt (2040), Annandale (2038) and Redfern (2016).
A standard interior repaint of a three to four bedroom home takes 3 to 5 working days with a two painter team. Adding the exterior typically adds another 3 to 5 days depending on size and access. Jobs involving lead paint removal or extensive surface repair take longer. We confirm exact timelines in your written quote.
Dulux is our primary supplier. Interiors default to Dulux Wash & Wear for durability and washability, exteriors to Dulux Weathershield for UV and weather resistance, and metal surfaces to Dulux Metalshield. If you have a preferred brand or product, tell us and we will specify it on the quote.
Yes. Almost every Newtown terrace shares one or both side walls, and most are solid brick with no cavity over original lime render. We check for rising damp and render failure before quoting, because both need treating before paint goes on. Access, staging and protection of the adjoining property are worked out as part of the scope.
Yes. We regularly paint heritage-listed and heritage-adjacent properties across the Inner West. We work within Inner West Council’s Development Control Plan and can advise on the approved heritage colour palette for your street, then prepare on-site samples for your sign-off before starting.
Yes. That covers individual unit repaints as well as common property, lobbies, corridors, stairwells, balconies and building facades. We are experienced with strata committee approvals, building manager coordination, lift bookings and restricted work hours, and we can attend a committee meeting to walk through scope before work is approved.
Yes. For commercial properties and strata common areas we work after hours and on weekends to avoid disrupting staff, customers or residents. On most commercial projects, after hours scheduling is included in your quote at no additional charge.
Ready to refresh your Newtown terrace, home or business? Our Newtown painting team is a small, consistent crew rather than a rotating cast of subcontractors, so the painters who quote your job are the painters who do it. Getting started costs nothing.
Every property is different, so we confirm competitive prices in a fixed-price written quote after an on-site inspection. No obligation, no surprises, and high quality work backed by a 5-year warranty.
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