Workmanship
Warranty
Upscale Painting & Decorating (NSW Painting Licence 453040C) is a Sydney house and apartment painting company providing interior, exterior, residential, apartment and strata painting in Bondi Junction and across the Eastern Suburbs. 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 Bondi Junction job is quoted in person by Esmayel, fixed in price in writing before work starts, and backed by a written Dulux 5-year workmanship warranty.
Reviews
Bondi Junction 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’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 in Bondi Junction shouldn’t depend on which painter you got.
In Bondi Junction, painting a home or building rarely comes with one straightforward variable. A house repaint on Birrell or Botany Street might mean coordinating around a shared boundary fence. An apartment in one of the walk-up blocks means insurance certificates to the building manager, lift bookings and permitted work hours before a brush is lifted. A shopfront on Oxford Street needs to keep trading. And every job here has to deal with the same realities: limited street parking, narrow lanes, neighbours less than two metres away.
The risks people are wary of are real. A price that creeps up once the work starts. Painters who don’t turn up. Dust and damage left behind. In a suburb this dense, none of that stays inside your four walls. It spills into the building, the strata managers’ inbox, the neighbours’ patience.
That is exactly what 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 property 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 Bondi Junction job.
Most painters tell you they’re reliable, tidy and good value. We’d rather show you. Every Bondi Junction job comes with five commitments, in writing, before we start.
Services
Painting services for Bondi Junction homes and buildings.
Bondi Junction’s building stock runs from mid-century walk-up apartments to new residential towers, Federation terraces and retail shopfronts, and Upscale Painting & Decorating paints all of it. Every service below is available across the suburb and the wider Eastern Suburbs.
The process
How we paint a Bondi Junction home first call to final walk-through.
When you can picture the steps, the unknown stops being stressful. Here’s 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, before applying premium Dulux systems. Prep is where a paint job is won or lost.
Painting in Bondi Junction
The urban heart of the Eastern Suburbs. Four very different paint jobs.
Bondi Junction is the busiest piece of property in the Eastern Suburbs, and a single suburb here means four very different repaint conversations. Owner-led from start to finish, Upscale Painting & Decorating runs all four.
The mid-century walk-up blocks. Bondi Junction holds one of Sydney’s densest concentrations of 1960s, 70s and 80s walk-up apartment buildings, many of them now into their second or third repaint cycle. The exteriors are usually painted render or face brick, sun-baked on the western elevations, with cantilevered balconies that take more weathering than the rest of the façade. Repainting here means coordinating with the owners corporation, working from elevated platforms or scaffolding, and using Dulux Weathershield systems that hold up under the wear these buildings get.
The new residential towers. The redevelopment around Westfield and the Junction Interchange has added a generation of newer high-rise buildings, mostly under 15 years old. Most are still on their original paint. Interior repaints in these apartments often coincide with the building’s first major refresh cycle, or with end-of-lease and pre-sale jobs. We coordinate with building managers on insurance certificates, lift bookings and permitted work hours so the job lands cleanly without a complaint from the desk downstairs.
The terraces and free-standing houses. Around Birrell Street, Botany Street, Spring Street, Bronte Road and the streets bordering Queens Park sit Federation and Victorian terraces, plus a slice of interwar free-standing houses. These are paint jobs where surface preparation matters most. Decades of paint build-up, original timber detailing, render that has cracked and been patched. The right system here lasts twenty years; the wrong one starts flaking in eighteen months.
The retail and office stock. Westfield Bondi Junction’s perimeter and the Oxford Street, Bronte Road and Bay Street commercial strips run from boutique shopfronts through to professional offices and medical suites. These jobs work around trading hours so the business keeps running, and use finishes graded for high-traffic commercial use.
Bondi Junction sits within Waverley Council jurisdiction, with its own planning controls and a few small heritage conservation pockets near Queens Park and the suburb’s older streets. We’ve painted homes and buildings across Bondi Junction and the rest of the Eastern Suburbs, Bondi, Bondi Beach, Waverley, Bellevue Hill, Centennial Park, Paddington and Woollahra, since 2016, and bring that local knowledge to every quote.
Pricing
What painting costs in Bondi Junction.
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 won’t 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
Bondi Junction painting questions, answered.
Below are the questions we hear most often when we quote in Bondi Junction. Read them before you call and you’ll have most of the answers you need. Anything else, ask Esmayel on the day.
Do you paint apartments and strata buildings in Bondi Junction?
Yes. Bondi Junction has one of the densest stocks of apartment buildings in the Eastern Suburbs, from mid-century walk-up blocks to newer towers around the Westfield redevelopment. Upscale Painting & Decorating paints individual units, common areas, stairwells, lobbies and full building exteriors. We coordinate directly with strata managers and bodies corporate, and supply insurance certificates and SWMS before any work starts.
Can you coordinate with my building manager and supply insurance certificates?
Yes. Most Bondi Junction apartment buildings ask for a certificate of currency, lift bookings and a sign-in to the building register before work begins. We handle that paperwork as part of the job, not as an afterthought, and have public liability cover that satisfies every Sydney building manager we’ve worked with.
Do you paint shopfronts and offices around Westfield and Oxford Street?
Yes. We paint shopfronts, offices and commercial interiors around the Westfield perimeter, along Oxford Street, Bronte Road and Bay Street, and through the smaller commercial strips off the Junction. Jobs are scheduled around trading hours so your business keeps running and customers don’t step around equipment.
What suburbs near Bondi Junction do you cover?
Upscale Painting & Decorating services Bondi Junction and the surrounding Eastern Suburbs, including Bondi, Bondi Beach, Waverley, Bellevue Hill, Centennial Park, Paddington, Woollahra, Queens Park and Charing Cross.
Do you provide a written warranty?
Yes. Every job is backed by a written Dulux 5-year workmanship warranty, with the certificate handed to you on completion. If anything fails because of how we painted it, we come back and fix it.
Service Area
Servicing Eastern Suburbs and greater Sydney
Upscale Painting & Decorating is a team of Sydney painters servicing Bondi Junction and the wider Eastern Suburbs. Alongside Bondi Junction, we paint homes and buildings in:
Centennial Park
Sydney CBD
Sydney CBD
Pyrmont
