Workmanship
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Upscale Painting & Decorating (NSW Licence 453040C) is a painting company in Sydney providing interior apartment and unit painting across the Sydney metropolitan area. Owner-led by Esmayel Nazari and operating since 2016, Upscale Painting & Decorating is a Dulux Accredited Painter and certified Master Painters Australia member. Every apartment painting job comes with a free in-person quote within 24 hours, a fixed price in writing, a free Dulux colour consultation, the Not-a-Scratch Guarantee, and a Dulux-backed 5-year workmanship warranty. As a fully insured painter, Upscale also handles the requirements your building manager or strata asks for, including certificates of insurance and lift or loading-dock bookings.
Reviews
Sydney apartment owners and investors who trusted us.
Painting an apartment means working inside a managed building, around neighbours, shared walls and the rules of the block. Here is what Sydney apartment owners say after the job is done. Every review below is a verified 5-star Google review.
Accredited & Licensed
Dulux Accredited Painter
5-Year Warranty
Master Painters Australia
NSW Member
Strata Community Assoc.
SCA NSW Member
NSW Government Licence
Contractor Licence No. 453040C
The problem
Painting an apartment isn’t painting a house.
On paper, an apartment is the simplest paint job there is, fewer rooms, no exterior, no roof. In practice, it’s the one with the most rules attached to it.
You’re not just hiring a painter. You’re hiring someone who has to work inside a building that has its own requirements, a building manager who wants a certificate of insurance before anyone lifts a brush, a lift that has to be booked, permitted work hours, and neighbours on the other side of every wall. Get a painter who hasn’t done it before, and the job stalls on day one over paperwork nobody warned you about.
Then there’s the apartment itself. Spaces are compact, so furniture and floors have to be protected properly, with nowhere to move things “out of the way”. Inner-city and older blocks come with decades of paint build-up and period detail. And if it’s an investment property, every day the job runs long is a day of vacancy.
The hard part of hiring an apartment painter in Sydney isn’t the painting. It’s finding a team that handles the building side as competently as the brushwork, so the job runs from quote to finished without a single surprise.
That’s exactly what Upscale Painting & Decorating was built to do. We’re an owner-led Sydney painting company, every promise we make is documented in writing before we start, and we deal with the building manager so you don’t have to.
The Upscale Promise
Five things in writing with every exterior paint job.
Whether it’s the apartment you live in or one you rent out, every job comes with the same five-part promise, and every one of them is documented before we lift a brush. No surprises, no hidden costs, no excuses.
Services
Apartment painting services across Sydney.
From a full unit repaint before you move in to a fast turnaround between tenants, Upscale Painting & Decorating handles every kind of apartment painting job across Sydney, for houses-in-the-sky and ground-floor units alike. Every surface is prepared properly first, and we use low-odour paints so a compact apartment stays liveable while we work.
Local Specialists
The building side, handled.
Painting an apartment in a managed building comes with a checklist most homeowners never see. We take care of all of it.
- Certificate of insurance. As a fully insured painter, we provide your building manager or strata with a Certificate of Currency before the job starts, usually the first thing they ask for.
- Lift and loading-dock bookings. We liaise with building management to book the lift or loading dock for the days we need it, so getting materials in and out doesn’t hold the job up.
- Permitted work hours. Every building has its own rules on when trades can work and run equipment. We confirm them up front and work within them.
- Building manager and strata liaison. We deal directly with the building manager so you’re not the go-between, and so the job clears every requirement before day one.
- Shared areas protected. Lifts, corridors and lobbies are covered and protected on the way in and out, and left exactly as we found them.
The process
How we paint your apartment from first call to final walk-through.
You should know exactly what happens when you hire us. Here’s the process, start to finish.
Building Management & Colour Consult
Before the job starts, we contact your building manager or strata, provide our Certificate of Currency, book the lift or loading dock, and confirm the building’s permitted work hours. Once you’re ready to go ahead, we arrange an optional, complimentary session with a certified Dulux Colour Expert to settle your colours.
Prep, Protect & Paint
We photograph and protect your floors, fixtures and furniture to our documented Not-a-Scratch standard, and protect the building’s shared corridors and lift on the way in. We prepare every surface properly and apply low-odour paints in clean, even coats, working efficiently to keep a compact apartment liveable and to keep an investment turnaround short.
Local Specialists
Painting apartments across Sydney – high-rise to walk-up.
No two Sydney apartment buildings paint the same way, because the building decides how the job runs. A unit high in a CBD or Green Square tower means coordinating lift access and loading-dock times to get materials up; a third-floor walk-up in an older Eastern Suburbs block means carrying everything by hand and protecting a shared stairwell the whole way. We plan each job around the building it’s in.
Sydney’s apartment stock is just as varied. We paint glass-and-render towers in the inner city, brick walk-ups across the Lower North Shore, and the city’s much-loved 1930s art-deco blocks in suburbs like Bellevue Hill, Potts Point and Cremorne, buildings with curved walls, period detail and decades of paint layered on, all of which need a careful, experienced hand rather than a quick once-over.
And every building runs by its own strata rules, what hours trades can work, how the lift is booked, what the building manager needs to see first. Knowing how to work with all of it, smoothly, is the part of apartment painting that comes from doing it across Sydney since 2016.
Transparent Pricing
What apartment painting costs in Sydney?
Apartment size, the condition of the existing walls, and how much detail and trim there is all move the price, so the only accurate figure is a fixed-price quote after an inspection. The indicative ranges below give you a realistic sense of where apartment painting in Sydney typically lands.
| Apartment Job | Typical Sydney Range |
|---|---|
| 1-bedroom or studio apartment repaintWalls, ceilings, trim | $2,500 – $4,000 |
| 2-bedroom apartment repaintFull unit, walls, ceilings, doors | $4,000 – $5,500 |
| 3-bedroom apartment or larger unitLarger plan, full repaint | Quoted on inspection |
| Single room or end-of-lease touch-upOne room or rental turnover | From $600 |
FAQ
Apartment painting questions, answered.
The questions we get asked on every quote, answered properly, by Esmayel and the Upscale team.
How much does it cost to paint an apartment in Sydney?
Apartment painting in Sydney typically ranges from $2,500–$4,000 for a 1-bedroom or studio apartment to $4,000–$5,500 for a 2-bedroom apartment, with larger units quoted on inspection and single rooms or end-of-lease touch-ups from around $600. The final price depends on the size of the apartment, the condition of the walls, the number of coats, and the amount of trim and detail. Upscale Painting & Decorating provides a free in-person quote and a fixed price in writing, so you know the full cost before any work begins.
How long does it take to paint an apartment?
A single room is often completed in a day, a 1-bedroom apartment in one to two days, and a larger apartment in several days, depending on its size and the amount of preparation needed. For investment properties, Upscale Painting & Decorating works to keep turnarounds short so the apartment is back on the rental market quickly, your fixed-price quote includes an expected timeframe.
Do you handle the strata and building management requirements?
Yes. Upscale Painting & Decorating deals with the building side for you, providing your building manager or strata with a Certificate of Currency, booking the lift or loading dock, and confirming the building’s permitted work hours before the job starts.
Can you paint my apartment if I’m an investor and can’t be there?
Yes. Upscale Painting & Decorating regularly works for interstate and time-poor investors. We arrange access through your property manager or agent, keep you updated throughout, and you approve the finished result, you don’t need to manage the logistics.
Service Area
Sydney suburbs we service.
Active teams across the Eastern Suburbs, Inner West, Lower North Shore, Sutherland Shire and the Sydney CBD, wherever you are in Sydney, there’s an Upscale Painting & Decorating team nearby.
Centennial Park
Sydney CBD
Sydney CBD
Pyrmont
