Workmanship
Warranty
Upscale Painting & Decorating (NSW Licence 302447C) is a painting company providing aged care and retirement facility painting across the Sydney metropolitan area. Owner-led by Esmayel Nazari since 2016, Upscale is a Dulux Accredited Painter and a Master Painters Australia member. Every aged care job comes with a fixed price in writing, a schedule built around your residents, low-VOC low-odour paints, police-checked painters, and a Dulux-backed 5-year workmanship warranty.
Reviews
A painting contractor your facility can rely on.
When residents live on site, the contractor you let through the door matters as much as the finish they leave behind. Upscale Painting & Decorating is owner-led, fully licensed and insured, and accountable for every job in writing.
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
Repainting an aged care home is not like repainting an office.
An office empties at 6pm. A school empties over the holidays. An aged care facility empties never. Your residents are home, every hour of every day the painters are on site and that single fact changes everything about how the job has to be run.
You’re not just buying a finish. You’re buying a contractor who understands that a corridor isn’t a worksite, it’s how a resident with a walking frame gets to the dining room. That a strange face and an unexplained drop sheet can unsettle a resident with dementia. That paint fumes aren’t just an inconvenience when someone has a respiratory condition. And that your accreditation, your families and your reputation all sit on the environment looking, and being, safe, clean and cared for.
Get a general commercial painter who treats your facility like any other site, and you inherit the problems: trip hazards left unattended, odour drifting into resident rooms, work running into meal times, and a crew who can’t produce a police check when your business manager asks. The hard part of aged care painting in Sydney isn’t the painting. It’s finding a contractor who runs the job around the people living inside it.
The Upscale Promise
Five things in writing with every aged care paint job.
In aged care, the painting decision answers to a board, to residents’ families and to an accreditation audit, and a contractor’s word doesn’t carry to any of them. Every aged care job Upscale Painting & Decorating takes on across Sydney comes with the same five commitments, each one put in writing before a brush is lifted.
Services
Aged care painting services across Sydney.
From a single resident wing to a whole-of-facility exterior program, Upscale Painting & Decorating covers the full range of aged care and retirement facility painting across Sydney.
The process
How we paint your facility from site visit to sign-off.
A strata repaint runs smoothly when everyone knows what happens next. Here’s exactly how an Upscale Painting & Decorating strata job works.
A staging plan locked to your facility
Before any work starts, we map the job to your residents, meal times, activity programs, care routines, and agree the staging zone by zone. We confirm National Police Check details, the site-specific SWMS and your induction requirements with your facility manager.
Protection, preparation and painting
We protect floors, fixtures and furniture under the Not-a-Scratch Guarantee, seal and signpost work zones to keep residents safe, and paint one zone at a time in low-VOC systems, with daily clean-up so the facility is never left with a hazard or a mess overnight.
Local Specialists
Working around your residents, not the other way round.
Sydney’s aged care estate is unusually varied, and the building shapes the job. The Eastern Suburbs and Inner West hold older facilities, former mansions, convents and converted institutional buildings repurposed for care, with heritage detail, solid plaster and decades of paint build-up. The middle-ring suburbs run to purpose-built multi-storey residential aged care, with long corridors, repetitive room layouts and busy shared floors. Out toward the city fringe sit the larger retirement villages, dozens of individual units plus clubhouses and community buildings spread across a campus. Each is a different painting job, and we scope each on its own terms.
What does not change is the constraint. Unlike an office or a school, an aged care facility has no empty window, residents are home around the clock. So the work is planned around them, not the other way around: staged zone by zone, sequenced around meal services and activity programs, with corridors and access kept clear so a resident with a walking frame is never cut off from where they need to be. Work zones are sealed and signposted, and low-odour systems keep the air comfortable in occupied areas.
It also means timing matters. Aged care providers repaint ahead of accreditation, on planned maintenance cycles, and to keep the environment meeting the standard residents and families expect. We plan facility programs around those dates, so the work supports your accreditation timeline instead of colliding with it. After more than a decade painting commercial and care environments across Sydney, Upscale runs aged care jobs as what they are: live-in homes that happen to need painting.
FAQ
Aged care painting questions, answered.
The most common questions aged care facility managers and providers want answered before hiring a painting contractor.
Do you paint aged care facilities while residents are living there?
Yes. Upscale Painting & Decorating paints aged care facilities as occupied, live-in environments. Work is staged zone by zone and sequenced around meal times, activity programs and care routines, with corridors kept clear and work areas sealed and signposted, so residents are never cut off or exposed to a hazard.
How do you keep paint fumes and odour away from residents?
Upscale uses low-VOC, low-odour Dulux paint systems for aged care work, painting one zone at a time so occupied areas stay comfortable. This matters in aged care because many residents have respiratory sensitivities, low-odour systems keep the indoor air healthier and let rooms return to use quickly.
Can you work around our care routines and activity schedules?
Yes. Before any work starts, Upscale maps the job to your facility’s meal services, medication rounds, activity programs and care routines, and agrees a staging plan zone by zone with your facility manager. The work is planned around residents, not the other way around.
Do you paint retirement villages and independent living units?
Yes. Upscale paints retirement villages and independent living units across Sydney, individual villa and unit repaints on turnover, as well as shared clubhouses, walkways and community buildings, coordinated with village management and residents.
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
