Painters in Cheltenham
Post-war brick homes alongside new townhouses, in a suburb where a lot of houses get painted for a reason: they are about to go on the market. That changes what is worth doing and what is a waste of money.
What Cheltenham houses ask for
- Two generations of housing on the same streetOriginal post-war brick homes sit next to townhouse developments barely a few years old, often side by side. They need completely different work: the older houses want preparation, the new ones want a proper coat over builder's grade paint that was never going to last. The one thing they share is that the sunny elevation is always the tired one.
- A lot of painting here is done before a saleBetween the shopping centre, the train line and the schools, this is a suburb with steady turnover, and a large share of the work is repainting to sell. That is a different job from repainting to live in: it runs to an auction date, it prioritises what a buyer sees in the first ten seconds, and it has to be finished and cleaned up before photography, not before settlement.
- Post-war brick with painted trimThe older houses are brick with painted eaves, fascias, window frames and doors. The brick itself is usually left as it is, and all the visible work is in the trim. Because it is only the trim, it is a comparatively cheap job that changes the look of the whole house, which is exactly why it is the standard pre sale exterior here.
- Concrete tile roofs on the older stockSame as the rest of the bayside south east: the tiles are fine, the surface coating is not. On a house going to market a tired roof reads as deferred maintenance and buyers price that in, usually at far more than the roof would have cost to do.
- Townhouses that are five years old and look itNew developments go up with the thinnest acceptable paint job. Five years on, the render is fading on the north wall, the entry is scuffed and the internal doors are marked. None of that is damage, it is just a builder's coat reaching the end of its life.
- Close enough to the bay to matter a littleCheltenham sits back from the water but still gets salt on the air. Nothing like the Peninsula, but enough that metalwork, gutters and the seaward elevation go before the rest.
Painting before you sell
If the house is going to market, the money should go where a buyer actually looks. This is the order we would spend it in.
- The front elevation and the front door firstBuyers form an opinion from the footpath before they walk in. Eaves, fascia, window frames, the front door and the fence do more for that first impression than anything inside.
- Then the interior traffic areasHallway, living room, kitchen walls. A fresh, clean line at the ceiling reads as a maintained house even when nothing else has changed.
- Neutral, but not builder whiteMarketing photography flattens colour. Warm neutrals photograph better than stark white and much better than strong colour, which dates the images and narrows the buyer pool.
- Finish before the photographer, not before the auctionPhotos are usually taken two to three weeks before the sale. The work has to be done, dried and cleaned up before that date, and that is the date we schedule to.
- What is not worth doingRepainting rooms a buyer will renovate anyway, or a full exterior when the trim alone will do the same job at a quarter of the price. We will say when the money is better left in your pocket.
Painting services in Cheltenham
The same range we bring to any Melbourne home, whether the job is one room or the whole house inside and out. In Cheltenham a good share of the work is done to a sale date, so the front of the house and the traffic areas come first and everything is finished before photography.
Whose job is it
A homeowner, a builder, a business owner and someone with a period house worry about completely different things. Pick the one that fits and you will get the answers written for you.
Homeowners
- You stay in the house while we work
- Covers down before anything starts
- One fixed price, not an hourly rate
Builders
- We hold the date we gave you
- Sequenced around the trades behind us
- Priced in a day or two
Commercial
- Staged or overnight, you keep trading
- Access and hours agreed up front
- Shops, offices, schools, warehouses
Heritage
- Ornate plaster cut in by hand
- Old surfaces sanded, not covered
- Council checked before colour
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