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Demo by Newcastle Web Co. This is a demo design and not a real business. Every design is one of one: when a business picks it, no one else gets it.

Demo, not a real business.

Lic. 000000C (demo)

(02) 5550 5182
A red-brick bungalow at dusk behind a freshly painted white picket fence, its windows lit and a palm beside it

House painters in Newcastle

Exteriors, interiors and Colorbond roofs across Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, prepped properly and finished in two coats. Every surface and every coat is on your written quote.

Pick a colour for the sheet

NSW contractor licence Lic. 000000C (demo)

Paints we use

  • Dulux
  • Haymes Paint
  • Taubmans
  • Wattyl

What we paint

Five kinds of job, one crew. Most of what you pay for is the prep you never see: washing, scraping, filling, sanding and priming, so the colour you chose is still sound in ten years.

The coast is hard on paint. Salt air chalks a finish, the westerly sun lifts it off north walls, and a wet winter finds every gap in old caulking. We pick the primer and the paint for the surface and the side of the house it's on, and we tell you why on the quote. If a board is rotten or a gutter is rusted through, we show you before we paint over it.

A paint roller resting in a tray of white paint
A living room with plain white walls, a cane armchair, a white sofa and a large orange painting
AfterBefore
An entry with plain white walls, a round mirror over a white hall table and a coat stand
AfterBefore

How a room gets repainted

The same four steps on every job, inside or out. Scroll and watch the room change.

  1. We look at every wall

    One of us comes out, walks every room and every side of the house, measures up and notes the repairs: the cracked cornice, the blown render, the soft board under the window. Your written quote lists each surface, each coat and the paint, so nothing on the bill is a surprise.

  2. Prep, which is most of the job

    Furniture goes to the middle and gets covered, floors get drop sheets, switch plates come off. Then we wash, scrape, fill and sand, seal stains so they don't bleed through, and prime anything bare. It's slow, and it's why the finish lasts.

  3. Cut in by hand, then two coats

    Every edge against the ceiling, the trims and the windows is cut in with a brush, not taped and hoped. Then two full coats go on, rolled in the same direction, with the drying time on the tin respected between them.

  4. Clean up, then walk it with you

    We take the drop sheets up, put the plates and furniture back and walk every room with you in daylight. Anything you point at gets touched up before we pack the van. Leftover paint is labelled by room, for later.

Projects

Six jobs from this year across Newcastle and Lake Macquarie, and what each owner asked for. Some wanted a whole house turned around before a sale, some wanted one wall done properly. Each card says what we did and how the finish was chosen. Sample projects: this is a demo.

  • A two-storey house with dark grey weatherboards over white render and white window trims
    Merewether

    Weatherboards over render, two colours

    Charcoal boards above, white render below, every window trim cut in by hand. The old paint was flaking, so every board was scraped and spot-primed first.
  • A dining corner under a sloping ceiling, one wall painted deep navy behind framed prints
    New Lambton

    One navy wall under a sloping ceiling

    Deep navy on the long wall, crisp white ceiling, the line between them taped and cut. A dark colour shows every patch, so the wall was filled and sanded twice.
  • A timber deck on a raised weatherboard house at dusk, white balustrades and the lights on inside
    Belmont

    A deck and balustrade before summer

    Hardwood deck cleaned and oiled, balustrades and posts repainted in gloss white. The boards dried out for two days before the oil went on.
  • A living room with grey-green walls, a tufted sofa and white painted shelves
    Hamilton

    A living room in grey-green

    Walls in a soft grey-green, ceilings and shelving in white, done in two days. The owner tried three sample patches on the wall before picking one.
  • An office kitchen with one wall painted dusty blue above a long timber table
    Cardiff

    An office kitchen, painted after hours

    A dusty-blue feature wall and fresh white walls, painted over a weekend so work never stopped. Low-odour paint, so the room was ready on Monday.
  • Freshly painted blue pickets in low sun, a garden and a house behind
    Stockton

    Pickets that stand up to the salt

    Sanded back, primed with a marine-grade undercoat, two coats of blue. A block from the beach, so every nail head was sealed against rust.

Where we work

Two areas, nine suburbs with their own page in time, and our base in Adamstown between them, so we're rarely more than half an hour from your place.

Being close matters on a paint job. We're on site early, we can come back for a touch-up without charging you travel, and we know which streets cop the salt and which ones sit in the damp. Outside these suburbs, ring us first. If we can do the job well, we'll quote it.

What people said after

Sample reviews: this is a demo, and a real client's own reviews replace these at launch.

Painting questions, answered

How much do house painters cost in Newcastle?

For our jobs, a full exterior repaint of a single-storey house usually lands between $9,000 and $18,000 + GST, and a three-bedroom interior between $7,000 and $14,000 + GST. What moves the price is prep: flaking paint, repairs and how much cutting-in there is. Your written quote lists every surface and every coat, so you see where the money goes before we start. If the prep turns up something the quote didn't cover, like rotten timber behind a board, we stop, show you and price it before doing any more.

Are quotes free?

Yes. We come out, look at every wall, measure up and leave you a written quote, usually within two business days of the visit. There's no charge for it and you're not committed to anything. Bring your colour ideas, or a photo of a house you like, and we'll bring sample pots and tell you how each colour behaves in your light.

Do house painters need a licence in NSW?

For residential painting worth more than $5,000 in labour and materials (including GST), yes: NSW requires a contractor licence to do, contract for or advertise that work. Stand-alone interior painting contracts have been exempt since 2015. Our licence number is on every page of this site. Ask any painter for theirs before you sign, and check it on the NSW Fair Trading licence register, which takes a minute online.

How long does it take to paint a house?

A single-storey exterior is usually five to eight working days, weather allowing, and a three-bedroom interior three to five. Prep is most of that time. The start date and the number of days are on your quote. If rain stops us on an outside job, we tell you that morning and move the days along rather than painting onto a damp wall.

Do you move the furniture?

We move it to the middle of each room and cover it, put drop sheets over the floors, and take down curtains, blinds and switch plates. Anything fragile or heavy, like a piano or a fish tank, we'll ask you about first. Everything goes back where it was. At the end of each day we clean up, close tins and leave the rooms you need usable, so you can live in the house while we work.

Which areas do you cover?

All of Newcastle and Lake Macquarie from Adamstown: Merewether, Hamilton, New Lambton, Mayfield and Stockton on the Newcastle side, and Cardiff, Belmont, Toronto and Swansea around the lake. A bit further out? Ring and ask. For bigger jobs, like a full exterior or a strata block, we often travel further, and the quote tells you up front if travel adds anything.

Tell us what needs painting

A few lines and a photo or two is enough. We'll ring to book a look, then leave you a written quote with every surface and every coat on it. No obligation, and no follow-up calls chasing you if you decide to wait a while longer.