Workmanship
Warranty
Upscale Painting & Decorating (NSW Licence 453040C) is a Sydney house painting company providing interior, exterior, residential and apartment painting in Rose Bay 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 Rose Bay 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
Rose Bay 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 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 Rose Bay home is a big job to hand over
Rose Bay homes are not small jobs. A full interior or a multi-level exterior is a significant piece of work, often a significant amount of money, and you are handing it to a team you may have only spoken to once. The bigger the job, the more there is to go wrong, and most people who have put off repainting have a specific reason.
You have been quoted a figure that climbed once the work was underway. You have heard about painters who did not turn up, or who left dust, overspray and damage behind. Or you simply do not want a crew moving through a large home for two or three weeks with no clear sense of what is happening or when it will be finished.
Those are reasonable concerns, and they are the exact 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 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 Rose Bay job.
Every painter in Sydney will tell you they are reliable, tidy and good value. We would rather show you. Every Rose Bay job comes with five commitments, in writing, before we start.
Services
Painting services for Rose Bay homes and buildings.
Rose Bay runs from harbourfront homes and apartment blocks up a steep hillside of large family residences, 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 Rose Bay home, first call to final walk-through.
When you can picture the steps, the unknown stops being stressful. Here is exactly what happens.
Colour consult and fixed-price sign-off
You get a free Dulux colour consultation, then a written, fixed-price quote. Nothing starts until you have seen the colours you will be living with and signed the price.
Protection, prep and 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 Rose Bay
Big homes on a steep harbour hillside
Rose Bay is not a flat suburb, and that single fact shapes almost every painting job here. The suburb runs from a long, flat harbour foreshore at Lyne Park and Rose Bay Beach, then climbs sharply up an escarpment toward Bellevue Hill and the Old South Head Road ridge. Its homes are built to match that terrain: large, multi-level houses set into the slope, where the street face often reads as one or two storeys while the harbour-facing rear elevation falls away three or even four levels down the hill.
For a painter, that changes the exterior job completely. A Rose Bay exterior repaint is rarely a quick ladder job. It is a height-access and staging job. The harbour-facing and side elevations need proper scaffolding or access equipment, prep on elevated rendered walls has to be done from a stable working platform, and an accurate fixed price depends on assessing that access before the quote is written, not discovering it halfway through. It is one of the main reasons we quote every Rose Bay job in person. You cannot price a sloping, multi-level home properly over the phone, and a painter who tries is the painter whose price climbs later.
There is also a quirk of the map worth knowing. Rose Bay sits across two councils. The western side, toward the bay, falls under the Municipality of Woollahra; the area east of Old South Head Road sits under Waverley Council. Heritage and exterior-colour controls are not identical between them, so where your home sits can determine what applies to an exterior repaint. We check which side of that line a property falls on as part of every quote.
One last factor: many Rose Bay homes face west toward the harbour and the city, which gives them the views, but also means the harbour-facing elevations take the full afternoon sun year round. That feeds directly into the exterior system we recommend, so the finish holds rather than fading or chalking on the most exposed walls.
We have painted homes across Rose Bay and the neighbouring Eastern Suburbs, Vaucluse, Dover Heights, Bellevue Hill, Point Piper, Double Bay and Darling Point, since 2016, and we bring that local knowledge to every quote.
Pricing
What painting costs in Rose Bay
Painting costs depend on the size of the space, the condition of the surfaces, the level of prep required, the access involved, 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. Because Rose Bay homes tend to be larger and multi-level, exterior work here often sits at or above the double-storey range, mostly because of the staging and access a sloping site requires.
| Job Type | Typical Sydney Range |
|---|---|
| Single-room interior repaintWalls + ceiling, one room | $600 – $1,200 |
| 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
Rose Bay painting questions, answered.
The questions Rose Bay homeowners ask us on every quote, answered properly.
Do you paint large, multi-level homes on Rose Bay’s steep blocks?
Yes. Multi-level homes built into a slope are the most common type of property in Rose Bay. Upscale Painting & Decorating plans and stages the harbour-facing and side elevations with proper scaffolding or access equipment, and Esmayel assesses that access in person before the quote so the fixed price accounts for it.
Do you paint apartments and strata buildings in Rose Bay?
Yes. Rose Bay has a large stock of apartments and harbourside blocks. Upscale Painting & Decorating paints individual units, common areas, stairwells and full building exteriors, and coordinates directly with strata managers and bodies corporate so the work runs without disrupting residents.
Do you work on heritage homes in Rose Bay?
Yes. Rose Bay sits across two councils, the Municipality of Woollahra on the western side toward the bay and Waverley Council east of Old South Head Road, and heritage and exterior-colour controls can differ between them. Upscale Painting & Decorating checks which controls apply to a property as part of the quote and uses Dulux systems suited to the home’s surfaces.
How quickly can I get a quote in Rose Bay?
Esmayel will visit your Rose Bay property within 24 hours of your call for a free, no-obligation quote, or provide a quick estimate over the phone the same day. Call 0490 094 862.
What suburbs near Rose Bay do you cover?
Upscale Painting & Decorating services Rose Bay and the surrounding Eastern Suburbs, including Vaucluse, Dover Heights, Bellevue Hill, Point Piper, Double Bay, Darling Point and Woollahra.
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 the Eastern Suburbs and greater Sydney
Upscale Painting & Decorating is a team of Sydney painters servicing Rose Bay and the wider Eastern Suburbs. Alongside Rose Bay, we paint homes and buildings in:
Centennial Park
Sydney CBD
Sydney CBD
Pyrmont
