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Check the overlay first
Same-colour repaints are usually exempt. A colour change on a contributory building may not be. Boroondara can tell you in a phone call.
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.
Canterbury
Heritage overlay,
and what it means.
A good deal of Canterbury sits within heritage overlay, particularly around Maling Road and the streets running off it. What that means in practice varies from property to property, and it is worth checking with Boroondara before settling on a colour rather than after.
Broadly, repainting in the same colour is usually exempt from any permit requirement, and changing colour on a contributory building sometimes is not. The rules turn on the significance of the building and the precinct rather than on paint as such, so two houses on the same street can sit differently. We are happy to talk through what we have seen, but we will point you at the council rather than guess on your behalf. Guessing is how people end up painting twice.
The stock itself is classic Federation and Edwardian: red brick, wide eaves, timber fretwork, shingled gables and leadlight. Period-appropriate colour is well documented for these houses, and the heritage ranges the major manufacturers publish are a sound starting point if you want something defensible.
On these houses
What we watch for
in Canterbury.
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Period-appropriate palettes
Heritage colour ranges exist for exactly this stock — a defensible starting point when the overlay makes colour a question rather than a preference.
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Shingled gables
Timber shingles need cutting course by course. Rolled over quickly they read as one flat panel from the street, and the gable loses its shadow.
What we do here
All four service lines,
across Canterbury.
Heritage & period
Victorian, Edwardian and Federation homes. Lead-safe preparation, period-appropriate colour, and the slow detail work that stock demands.
Luxury interiors
Panelling, joinery, specialist finishes and full repaints. Minimum three coats, and the preparation that makes three coats worth applying.
Exteriors
Render, weatherboard, brick and trim, specified for a Melbourne year rather than for a Melbourne week.
Commercial & strata
Retail, offices and common property. Staged around trading hours and left clean at the end of every shift.
Nearby
We work
next door too.
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.