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Inner Melbourne
Apartments, terrace rows and converted warehouses on tight streets. Most of the planning here goes into access, before a tin is opened.
Where we
work.
We work right across Melbourne from a studio in Camberwell. The houses change region by region and street by street, and so does the work — here is what we find in each.
Across Melbourne
Six regions,
one standard.
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Northern Suburbs
Weatherboard cottages, Californian bungalows, postwar brick and new townhouses, often all on the one street.
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Western Suburbs
Workers’ cottages near the river and the bay, and some of the newest estates in Melbourne further out. Two very different starting points.
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Eastern Suburbs
Our home ground. Period houses closer in, then seventies brick, cedar and big gardens out towards the ranges.
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South East Melbourne
Brick family homes, double-storey voids and growth-corridor estates, with factories and warehouses in between.
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Bayside
Sea air, strong sun, and some of Melbourne’s best mid-century and Art Deco houses. Exteriors here work harder than anywhere else.
Suburb guides
Eighteen suburbs,
drawn properly.
Click any suburb to see what the houses there are like.
Eastern suburbs
Eighteen suburbs,
eighteen different houses.
Painters in Camberwell
Our own suburb. Federation red brick, Californian bungalows and the odd Victorian near the Junction — we have spent more time on ladders here than anywhere else.
Painters in Hawthorn
Victorian terraces with cast iron lacework, and grand Edwardians further back. Two quite different painting problems inside one postcode.
Painters in Kew
Large period houses on large blocks. Tall elevations, mature gardens in the way, and interior detail that shows every shortcut.
Painters in Canterbury
Federation and Edwardian homes, much of it inside heritage overlay. Colour is not always a free choice here, and that is worth knowing before you start.
Painters in Balwyn
Interwar bungalows alongside a great deal of new building. Two eras, two entirely different specifications, often on the same street.
Painters in Surrey Hills
Californian bungalow country. Roughcast, shingles, heavy verandah posts and sleepouts — a very particular set of surfaces on one elevation.
Painters in Glen Iris
Interwar and postwar homes, and a great many extensions. Most of the work here involves making old and new read as one house.
Painters in Malvern
Victorian and Edwardian houses with ornate cement render detail. Mouldings, cornices and string courses that reward slow work.
Painters in Armadale
Victorian terraces off High Street, and the shopfronts along it. Residential and commercial work with quite different working hours.
Painters in Toorak
Grand period homes and contemporary architect-designed houses. Specialist finishes, and a standard where the finish is the point.
Painters in Richmond
Workers’ cottages, terrace rows and converted warehouses on tight sites. Access is usually the hardest part of the job.
Painters in Brighton
Bayside exposure changes everything. Salt, wind and unbroken sun on the western elevations — coatings here work considerably harder.
Painters in Box Hill
Towers over the station, weatherboard behind them. Two housing types a generation apart, sharing a postcode and almost nothing else.
Painters in Burwood
Postwar brick veneer, aluminium windows and a lot of rental stock near the university. Sound houses that reward doing the boring parts properly.
Painters in Blackburn
Mid-century timber houses under established gums. Wide eaves, big glazing, and timber that was often never meant to be painted at all.
Painters in Hawthorn East
Interwar flats along the tram routes, Edwardian houses behind them. The flats are the work most painters quote badly.
Painters in Balwyn North
Elevated blocks, big rebuilds and the interwar houses between them. More new render here than anywhere else we work.
Painters in Malvern East
Interwar bungalows and Art Deco, not the Victorian ornament of Malvern proper. Different era, different problems entirely.
Not on the list?
These are the suburbs with their own guides, not the limit of where we go. We take on work across greater Melbourne, from the CBD to the growth suburbs, so if yours is not listed, ask.
Next step
Tell us about the house.
Send through a few photos and what you have in mind. We will come back within one business day with an honest read on the work, the timing and the range it sits in.