Workmanship
Warranty
Upscale Painting & Decorating (NSW Licence 453040C) is a Sydney painting and decorating company providing strata and body corporate painting across the Sydney metropolitan area. Owner-led by Esmayel Nazari since 2016, Upscale is a Dulux Accredited Painter and a member of Master Painters Australia. Every strata job comes with a fixed price your committee can vote on, minimal-disruption staged scheduling, full SWMS and $20 million public liability cover, a single owner point of contact, and a written workmanship warranty.
Reviews
Trusted by Sydney property owners and strata managers.
Hiring a painter for a strata building means trusting them with a property dozens of people live in, and with money the owners corporation has set aside, often for years. Upscale Painting & Decorating has held a 5.0-star rating across its Google reviews, and every job is run personally by the owner, Esmayel Nazari.
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
A commercial repaint shouldn’t be a gamble for your committee
A full repaint is one of the largest single items in a strata scheme’s capital works fund, and the committee has to be able to justify it to every owner. The painter you choose either makes that easy or makes it a problem.
Most strata committees have seen at least one of these:
- A low quote that turns into a string of variations once the scaffold is up — each one needing fresh approval, each one harder to explain at the next meeting.
- A crew that blocks the only entry, leaves the car park unusable, and knocks off without telling anyone — while residents field the complaints.
- A different face every visit, a phone number that goes to voicemail, and no one who can actually answer for the job.
- Prep cut short on an older block — flaking, mould or surface rust painted straight over — so the coating fails inside a year and the fund pays for it twice.
Upscale Painting & Decorating is built to remove every one of those risks before work starts. You get a fixed price in writing, a clear staged schedule, one accountable owner to deal with, and a documented standard for protection, preparation and finish. Nothing is left for the committee to discover halfway through.
The Upscale Promise
Five things in writing with every strata paint job.
Most commercial painters tell you they’re professional, reliable and compliant. We’d rather put it in writing. Every commercial job comes with the same five commitments, documented and agreed before a brush is lifted.
Services
Strata painting services across Sydney.
Upscale Painting & Decorating handles the full common property of a strata scheme, plus individual units when the owners corporation or a lot owner requests it. Our strata painting services cover:
The process
How we paint your strata building 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 fixed-price quote for your committee
You receive an itemised, fixed-price quote written so a strata committee can review it and vote on it. The figure is locked before work begins, the price approved at the meeting is the price the owners corporation pays. Once the work is approved, we set a clear staged schedule and issue written notices to residents before each phase, so the building keeps functioning and everyone knows what’s happening and when.
Protection, preparation and painting
Common areas and residents’ property are protected to our documented standard. Surfaces are properly prepared, mould treated, rust and flaking addressed, legacy lead paint handled safely on older blocks, before Dulux systems go on.
Local Specialists
Painting Sydney’s strata buildings.
Sydney’s strata stock is not one thing, and it can’t be painted as if it were. Across the Eastern Suburbs and Lower North Shore, much of it is post-war walk-up blocks, three and four storeys of face brick built between the 1950s and 1970s, often still carrying original oil-based coatings on railings and eaves, and, in the oldest, lead-based paint that has to be identified and handled safely. The Inner West and Sutherland Shire carry more of the brown-brick unit complexes of the 1980s and 1990s. Newer townhouse and villa developments are rendered, and render needs a flexible coating that moves with the substrate, not a cheap film that cracks at the joints within a season.
Upscale Painting & Decorating quotes each building for what it actually is. We specialise in low-rise strata, walk-up apartment blocks, townhouse and villa complexes, and garden-style unit developments that can be reached with standard scaffold and access equipment. For high-rise towers needing swing stages or rope access, we’ll happily point you to a specialist rather than take on work outside our lane.
There’s also the strata side of a repaint, not just the painting side. Under the NSW Strata Schemes Management Act, painting common property is the owners corporation’s responsibility, and a major repaint is usually one of the largest scheduled items in the scheme’s 10-year capital works plan. We quote with that in mind, a clear, itemised, fixed price the committee can take straight to a meeting, approve against the capital works fund, and budget around with confidence. No moving figure, no mid-job surprises for the strata manager to chase.
FAQ
Strata painting questions, answered.
The questions building managers, business owners and strata committees ask before engaging a commercial painter, answered in full.
Who pays for painting in a strata building?
Painting of common property, external walls, lobbies, corridors, stairwells, shared balconies and railings, is the responsibility of the owners corporation, and is usually funded from the strata scheme’s capital works fund. Upscale Painting & Decorating quotes the works for the strata committee or strata manager so the cost can be approved at a committee meeting or AGM. Painting inside an individual lot is generally the lot owner’s responsibility.
How do you keep disruption to a minimum for residents?
Upscale Painting & Decorating stages strata works so the building keeps functioning while we paint. Entries, stairwells, lifts and car parking stay usable, we issue written notices to residents before each phase, and common areas are cleaned and made safe at the end of every working day. The strata manager receives a clear schedule up front, so residents always know what’s happening and when.
Do you work directly with our strata manager?
Yes. Esmayel Nazari, the owner of Upscale Painting & Decorating, is the single point of contact for every strata job. Your strata manager or building manager deals with him directly, from the first inspection and quote through to the final sign-off, rather than a rotating crew or a call centre.
Do you paint older apartment blocks with lead paint?
Yes. Many post-war walk-up blocks across Sydney’s Eastern Suburbs and Lower North Shore were built before lead paint was phased out. Upscale Painting & Decorating identifies and handles legacy lead-based coatings safely as part of surface preparation, in line with Australian standards, so the repaint is both safe for residents and long-lasting.
What parts of a strata building do you paint?
Upscale Painting & Decorating paints the full common property of a strata scheme, external walls and render, lobbies, foyers, corridors, stairwells, balconies, railings, eaves, fascias and soffits, plus car parks, basements and line marking. We also repaint individual units and townhouses within a complex when the owners corporation or a lot owner requests it.
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
