Workmanship
Warranty
Upscale Painting & Decorating (NSW Painting Licence 453040C) is a painting company providing interior, exterior, heritage and apartment painting in Mosman and across Sydney’s Lower North Shore. 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 Mosman job is quoted in person by Esmayel, fixed in price in writing before work starts, and backed by a written workmanship warranty.
Reviews
Mosman homeowners who trusted us with their homes.
Letting a painter into your home means trusting them with your floors, your furniture and your time, and in Mosman, often with a home that has decades of character built into it. Here’s what Sydney 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 Mosman home shouldn’t be stressful.
If you’ve put off repainting a Mosman home, it’s usually for one of a few reasons.
You’ve been quoted a price that crept up once the work started. You’ve heard about painters who didn’t turn up, or who left dust and damage behind in a home that wasn’t built to be knocked around. Or you simply don’t want strangers in your home for a fortnight with no clear idea of what’s happening or when it’ll be finished.
Those are reasonable worries, and they’re 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 is 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 Mosman job.
Most painters tell you they’re reliable, tidy and good value. We’d rather show you. Every Mosman job comes with five commitments, in writing, before we start.
Services
Painting services for Mosman homes and buildings.
Mosman’s housing runs from grand Federation and interwar homes to California bungalows and harbourside apartment blocks, and Upscale Painting & Decorating paints all of it. Every service below is available across the suburb and the wider Lower North Shore.
The process
How we paint a Mosman 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, crack repair and priming, before applying premium Dulux systems. Prep is where a paint job is won or lost.
Painting in Five Dock
Painting in Mosman, heritage homes under their own Council.
Mosman is one of Sydney’s most architecturally significant suburbs, and that shapes how it needs to be painted. The streets between Military Road, Balmoral and Beauty Point hold an unusually high concentration of grand Federation and Victorian homes, Edwardian and interwar residences, and California bungalows, a great many of them within heritage conservation areas administered by Mosman Municipal Council. Two things govern a paint job here, and neither is the colour chart.
The first is heritage. Conservation-area controls can dictate exterior colours, finishes and how original detailing is treated, the timber fretwork, rendered mouldings, leadlight surrounds and decorative bargeboards that give these homes their value. Getting it wrong means a repaint, or a problem with Council. Upscale Painting & Decorating works to those controls, hand-prepares and brush-finishes the detail rather than rushing it with a spray gun, and uses Dulux systems, including the Dulux Heritage range, suited to the original substrates so the finish lasts and the property stays compliant.
The second is movement. Mosman homes are old, and old homes move. Decades of settlement leave fine cracking through plaster and render, the same cracking the suburb’s interiors are known for. Painting over it without proper repair only telegraphs the cracks straight back through the new coat. We rake out, fill with the right flexible products, prime and seal before a drop of colour goes on. It is slower, and it is the difference between a finish that holds and one that fails by the next wet season.
There is one more factor worth naming: at Mosman’s price point, the finish has to be exact and the home and its contents protected to a standard that matches it. That is why every Mosman job is fixed in price in writing and every floor, fixture and piece of furniture is protected under our Not-a-Scratch Guarantee. We’ve painted homes and buildings across Mosman and the neighbouring Lower North Shore, Cremorne, Neutral Bay, Cammeray, Northbridge and Willoughby, since 2016, and bring that local knowledge to every quote.
Pricing
What painting costs in Mosman
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
Mosman painting questions, answered.
A few questions come up on almost every Mosman quote, about heritage homes, the cracking older houses tend to get, and how soon we can be there. Here are straight answers to the ones we hear most.
Do you paint heritage and period homes in Mosman?
Yes. Many Mosman homes are Federation, Victorian or interwar, and a large number sit within Mosman Municipal Council heritage conservation areas, which can govern exterior colours and finishes. Upscale Painting & Decorating works to those controls, hand-prepares original detailing, and uses Dulux systems, including the Dulux Heritage range, suited to original timber and rendered surfaces.
Do you repair cracks in older Mosman homes before painting?
Yes. Established Mosman homes commonly develop settlement and movement cracking through plaster and render. Painting over it without repair just shows the cracks back through within a season. Upscale Painting & Decorating rakes out, fills with flexible products, primes and seals as part of the preparation, so the finish holds.
Do you paint apartments and strata buildings in Mosman?
Yes. Mosman has apartment stock around Military Road, Spit Junction and Mosman Junction. Upscale Painting & Decorating paints individual units, common areas, stairwells and full building exteriors, and coordinates with strata managers and bodies corporate so work runs without disrupting residents.
Service Area
Servicing the Lower North Shore and greater Sydney
Upscale Painting & Decorating is a team of Sydney painters servicing Mosman and the wider Lower North Shore. Alongside Mosman NSW 2088, we paint homes and buildings in:
Centennial Park
Sydney CBD
Sydney CBD
Pyrmont
