Workmanship
Warranty
Upscale Painting & Decorating (NSW Licence 453040C) is a painting company in Sydney providing apartment, strata, interior and exterior painting in Waterloo and across Sydney’s inner south. 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 Waterloo job is quoted in person by Esmayel, fixed in price in writing before work starts, and backed by a written workmanship warranty.
Reviews
Waterloo homeowners and strata managers who trusted us with their buildings.
Letting a painter into your apartment, your common areas or your building means trusting them with your floors, your residents and your timing. Here’s what Sydney homeowners and strata managers 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
Painting a Waterloo apartment shouldn’t be a scheduling nightmare.
If you’ve delayed repainting your Waterloo apartment or building, the reasons are usually practical.
You’ve been quoted one number by a strata painter and billed another. You’ve seen crews who couldn’t coordinate around a body corporate, a lift booking or shared building access. You’ve heard about interior painters who didn’t understand that an end-of-lease window is days, not weeks, between tenants. Or you simply don’t want strangers in a building where every neighbour can hear and see what’s happening.
Those are real concerns, 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 apartment or building 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 Waterloo job.
Most painters tell you they’re reliable, tidy and good value. We’d rather show you. Every Waterloo job comes with five commitments, in writing, before we start.
Services
Painting services for Waterloo apartments, buildings and homes.
Waterloo’s housing runs from high-rise apartment towers and warehouse conversions to Victorian workers’ cottages, and Upscale Painting & Decorating paints all of it. Every service below is available across Waterloo and the surrounding inner south.
The process
How we paint a Waterloo home or apartment first call to final walk-through.
When you can picture the steps, the unknown stops being stressful. Here’s 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’ve seen the colours you’ll 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. For strata jobs, lift mats, lobby covers and trade access are arranged in advance with your strata manager. Prep is where a paint job is won or lost.
Painting in Waterloo
Sydney’s most apartment-dense postcode.
Waterloo is one of the most apartment-dense postcodes in NSW, and that single fact shapes almost every painting job in the suburb. Between Waterloo, Zetland and the wider Green Square renewal precinct on its southern edge, hundreds of mid-rise and high-rise buildings have gone up in the last fifteen years, sitting alongside Waterloo’s older stock of Victorian workers’ cottages, warehouse conversions and council estates. Painting in Waterloo isn’t one thing. It’s three.
For body corporates and strata committees, the work is rarely one apartment. It’s a stairwell, a shared lobby, an entry colonnade or a full building facade scheduled around residents, lifts and trade access. Painting in a Waterloo apartment block usually means coordinating with the strata manager weeks in advance, working clean inside lived-in common areas, and staging the job so the building keeps running. We handle that coordination as part of every strata quote, not as an afterthought, and as a Strata Community Association NSW member, we know how strata committees and managing agents prefer the process documented.
For investor-owned apartments, the constraint is turnaround. Waterloo, Zetland and Alexandria have some of the higher rental turnover rates in inner Sydney, and an end-of-lease or pre-sale interior repaint usually needs to happen in days, not weeks, between tenants or before a property goes to market. We quote, schedule and finish those jobs to a defined timeline so you’re not paying for empty weeks.
And then there’s the older stock. Waterloo’s Victorian terraces along streets like Pitt, Wellington and Raglan need the same care any heritage interior does: proper prep on lath and plaster, lead paint awareness on pre-1970 trims, and Dulux systems matched to the original substrate. The same applies to the warehouse and woolstore conversions around Wyndham and Bourke Street, where exposed brick, original timbers and converted industrial features are part of the design. We paint all of it.
We’ve painted homes and buildings across Waterloo and the surrounding inner south, Zetland, Alexandria, Redfern, Beaconsfield and Rosebery, since 2016, and bring that experience to every quote.
Pricing
What painting costs in Waterloo.
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 and strata committees 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
Waterloo painting questions, answered.
Waterloo apartments, terraces and buildings each come with their own questions, and most owners and strata managers ask us the same handful before they commit. These are the ones we hear on almost every quote, with the answers we’d give you on the phone.
Do you paint Waterloo apartment buildings and common areas?
Yes. Waterloo has one of the densest concentrations of apartment buildings in NSW, and Upscale Painting & Decorating paints individual units, hallways, stairwells, lobbies and full building exteriors. As a Strata Community Association NSW member, we coordinate directly with strata managers and bodies corporate so the work runs without disrupting residents or lift access.
Do you work with strata managers and body corporates in Waterloo?
Yes. Most Waterloo painting jobs involve a strata manager, a managing agent or a body corporate, and we work to their preferred process: site inspection with the building manager, scope of works in writing, fixed-price quote, scheduled access for residents and trades, and a documented sign-off at the end.
Can you turn around an end-of-lease or pre-sale apartment repaint quickly in Waterloo?
Yes. For investor-owned apartments in Waterloo, Zetland and Alexandria, we run end-of-lease and pre-sale interior repaints to a defined timeline, usually a small number of working days for a one or two-bedroom unit, so the property isn’t sitting empty between tenants or campaigns.
Do you paint Waterloo terraces and warehouse conversions?
Yes. Waterloo’s older Victorian terraces and the warehouse and woolstore conversions around Wyndham and Bourke Street need different prep to a new apartment, and we work to the original substrate with Dulux systems suited to lath and plaster, exposed brick and original timber detailing.
What suburbs near Waterloo do you cover?
Upscale Painting & Decorating services Waterloo and the surrounding inner south, including Zetland, Alexandria, Redfern, Beaconsfield, Rosebery, Eveleigh and Surry Hills, as well as the broader Sydney CBD.
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 Sydney’s inner south and greater Sydney
Upscale Painting & Decorating is a team of Sydney painters servicing Waterloo and the wider inner south. Alongside Waterloo, we paint homes, apartments and buildings in:
Centennial Park
Sydney CBD
Sydney CBD
Pyrmont
