Workmanship
Warranty
Upscale Painting & Decorating (NSW Painting Licence 453040C) is a house painting company in Sydney providing interior, exterior, residential and apartment painting in Haberfield and across the Inner West. Owner-led by Esmayel Nazari and operating since 2016, Upscale Painting & Decorating is a Dulux Accredited Painter and a certified member of Master Painters Australia. Every Haberfield job is quoted in person by Esmayel, fixed in price in writing before work starts, and backed by a written workmanship warranty.
Reviews
Haberfield homeowners who trusted us with their homes.
Letting a painter into your home means trusting them with your floors, your furniture and your time. Here is what Haberfield homeowners say after working with Upscale Painting & Decorating. 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
Repainting a heritage home in Haberfield is not a job to gamble on.
If you have put off repainting, it is usually for one of a few reasons.
You have been quoted a price that crept up once the work started. You have heard about painters who did not turn up, or who left dust and damage behind. And in Haberfield there is one more worry on top of all that. Almost every home here sits inside a heritage conservation area, so the wrong colour, the wrong finish or a careless hand on original detailing is not just a cosmetic mistake, it can mean a repaint, a problem with Council, or the loss of timber fretwork and leadlight that cannot be bought back.
Those are reasonable worries, and they are exactly the ones Upscale Painting & Decorating is built to remove. Every part of how we work is designed so you know the price, know the schedule, and know your home and its original features are protected before a single brush is lifted.
You deal with Esmayel directly, not a call centre or a rotating crew. And everything we commit to, we put in writing.
The Upscale Promise
Five things in writing with every Haberfield job.
Most painters tell you they are reliable, tidy and good value. We would rather show you. Every Haberfield job comes with five commitments, in writing, before we start.
Services
Painting services for Haberfield homes and buildings.
Haberfield’s housing is unusually consistent, street after street of detached Federation and California bungalow homes on garden blocks, with a smaller stock of apartments and the Ramsay Street village at its centre. Upscale Painting & Decorating paints all of it. Every service below is available across the suburb and the wider Inner West.
The process
How we paint a Haberfield home, from first call to final walk-through.
When you can picture the steps, the unknown stops being stressful. Here is exactly what happens.
Colour Consult & Fixed-Price Sign-Off
You get a free Dulux colour consultation, then a written, fixed-price quote. Nothing starts until you’ve seen the colours you’ll be living with and signed the price.
Protection, Prep & Painting
We photograph and protect every floor, fixture and piece of furniture, then prep properly, filling, sanding, priming, repairing render and timber where needed, before applying premium Dulux systems. Prep is where a paint job is won or lost, and on a heritage home it is where the detail is saved.
Painting in Haberfield
The Garden Suburb, and what it asks of a painter.
Haberfield is not a typical Sydney suburb to paint, and the reason is its history. Laid out from 1901 by Richard Stanton and marketed as Australia’s first planned garden suburb, “slumless, laneless and publess”, it was built almost entirely as detached homes on generous blocks with front gardens and deep setbacks. The result is one of the largest and most intact Federation-era streetscapes in the country, and today close to the entire suburb sits within a heritage conservation area under the Inner West Council planning controls.
For the homeowner, that history is the constraint. Conservation-area controls can guide exterior colours, finishes and how original detailing is treated, the tuckpointed brickwork, roughcast render, decorative gables, timber fretwork, terracotta roofs and leadlight that give these homes their value. Getting it wrong is not just a cosmetic problem, it can mean a repaint or an issue with Council. We work to those controls, recommend heritage-appropriate Dulux palettes, and use systems suited to the original substrates, breathable coatings on solid masonry, the right preparation on century-old timber, so the finish lasts and the property stays compliant.
The other Haberfield reality is that the homes are old. California bungalows and Federation cottages here are often a hundred years old or close to it, which means lead-based paint on pre-1970 surfaces, weathered render, and timber that needs genuine repair rather than a quick coat. We prepare properly and handle older coatings safely, because on a home like this the prep is the job.
As a Dulux Accredited Painter, we also know the Dulux trade centre on the edge of Haberfield well, and we colour-match and specify from the Dulux heritage range every week. We have painted homes and buildings across Haberfield and the neighbouring Inner West, Ashfield, Summer Hill, Five Dock, Croydon, Leichhardt and Drummoyne, since 2016, and we bring that local knowledge to every quote.
Pricing
What painting costs in Haberfield
Painting costs depend on the size of the space, the condition of the surfaces, the level of prep required, and the paint system used. Most painters will not quote a number without seeing the job, and neither will we. But here are the ranges most Sydney homeowners can expect, based on typical Upscale Painting & Decorating jobs.
| Job Type | Typical Sydney Range |
|---|---|
| Single-room interior repaintWalls + ceiling, one room | $800 – $1,500 |
| Full 3-bedroom interior repaintWalls, ceilings, trim, architraves | $5,000 – $10,000 |
| Full 4-bedroom interior repaintLarger plan, full home | $7,500 – $14,000 |
| Full exterior repaint — single storeyRender, brick, weatherboard | $8,000 – $16,000 |
| Full exterior repaint — double storeyTwo-level, full Weathershield system | $12,000 – $25,000+ |
| Apartment interior repaint1–2 bed, end-of-lease or move-in | $2,500 – $5,500 |
| Strata common areasPer complex, scope-dependent | Quoted on inspection |
Frequently Asked Questions
Haberfield painting questions, answered.
Almost every Haberfield quote starts with the same handful of questions, and most of them come back to one thing: the suburb’s heritage. Here are the ones we are asked most often, answered plainly so you know where you stand before you commit to anything.
Do you paint heritage and Federation homes in Haberfield?
Yes. Almost all of Haberfield sits within a heritage conservation area, and Federation and California bungalow homes are what we paint here most. Upscale Painting & Decorating works to the conservation-area controls on exterior colours and finishes, repairs and repaints original render, brickwork and timber detailing, and uses Dulux systems suited to century-old substrates.
Will I need Council approval to repaint my Haberfield home?
It depends on the work. A like-for-like repaint in heritage-appropriate colours is usually straightforward, while changing an exterior colour scheme in a conservation area can attract controls. Esmayel will talk you through it at the quote and recommend palettes that suit both your home and the conservation area. We always recommend confirming with Inner West Council where a colour change is involved.
What suburbs near Haberfield do you cover?
Upscale Painting & Decorating services Haberfield and the surrounding Inner West, including Ashfield, Summer Hill, Five Dock, Croydon, Leichhardt, Drummoyne, Burwood and Gladesville.
Service Area
Servicing the Inner West and greater Sydney
Upscale Painting & Decorating is a team of Sydney painters servicing Haberfield and the wider Inner West. Alongside Haberfield, we paint homes and buildings in Ashfield, Burwood, Drummoyne, Five Dock, Gladesville, Summer Hill, Leichhardt and Croydon, and across the Eastern Suburbs, Lower North Shore, Sydney CBD and the Sutherland Shire.
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