Dupaint is a licensed, family-owned painting company established in 1998, serving Woolloomooloo and the surrounding Eastern Suburbs and CBD fringe from our head office in Darling Point, less than three kilometres away. We specialise in residential, strata and commercial painting for the terraces, converted wharf apartments and mixed-use buildings of Woolloomooloo NSW 2011.
Woolloomooloo has a high proportion of strata buildings and heritage-listed properties, so building managers, owners corporations and body corporates need paperwork before anyone sets foot on site. Dupaint provides all of it with every quote:
Every job, from a single feature wall to a full building exterior, comes with a written 5-year workmanship warranty.
The terrace rows between William Street and the bay are some of the oldest housing in Sydney, and many sit within City of Sydney heritage conservation areas. Common problems, peeling paint on iron lace and timber balustrades, rising damp blowing off render on party walls, lead-based paint under old layers, and previous owners’ colour choices that don’t suit the era. As heritage painters, Dupaint handles lead-safe preparation, breathable coatings for old render, and heritage-appropriate colour schemes. Narrow frontages and rear-lane access are a fact of life on these streets, we plan scaffolding and material access before day one so your neighbours aren’t inconvenienced.
Woolloomooloo’s apartment blocks, from the 1930s art deco buildings near Dowling Street to the newer developments off Bourke Street, all need lobbies, stairwells, corridors and car parks repainted on a cycle. The challenge is doing it while residents are living there. Dupaint’s strata painters work with building managers to stage the job floor by floor, use low-odour products in enclosed areas, keep egress clear at all times, and give residents written notice of what’s happening and when. We quote in a format owners corporations can take straight to a committee meeting.
The restaurants and bars along the wharf, the cafés on Bourke and Cathedral Streets, and the offices and studios around Woolloomooloo’s warehouse conversions can’t close for a repaint. Dupaint’s commercial painters schedule around trading hours, work overnight or on Sundays where needed, and use fast-drying, low-VOC coatings so you can open the next morning. We’ve painted hospitality venues from the InterContinental Double Bay to fitouts for Anytime Fitness, so we understand what a working venue needs.
Whether it’s a whole-of-house repaint on a Brougham Street terrace or a single bedroom in a wharf apartment, you get the same process and the same finish standard.
Interior painting in Woolloomooloo: walls, ceilings, doors, architraves, skirting, built-ins, kitchen cabinetry, feature walls, wallpaper removal, plaster repair and crack filling. Preparation is where the result is made: sugar-soaping, sanding, filling and sealing before a coat goes on.
Exterior painting in Woolloomooloo: render, weatherboard and masonry, iron lace and balustrades, timber windows and doors, fences, gutters, eaves and fascias, balconies and roofs. Full pressure clean and rot or damp treatment first, then a primer and two topcoats in a system matched to harbour exposure.
Specialty finishes: Venetian plaster, microcement, limewash and marble effect for apartments and terraces that want something beyond flat paint.
Every quote includes a free colour consultation. If you’re matching an existing scheme in a strata building or working within heritage guidelines, we’ll bring the right swatches to site.
Woolloomooloo sits between the CBD and the Eastern Suburbs, and Dupaint’s painters cover both sides. See our pages for painters in Potts Point, painters in Darlinghurst, painters in Rushcutters Bay, painters in Circular Quay and our Eastern Suburbs painters hub.