Sterling Painters Melbourne

Category: House Painters

Your House Painters. We’re not commercial painters, we’re not industrial painters, we’re your very own house painters.

We don’t specialise in Painting Houses, because that’s all we do. We’re only house painters. Because we are house painters, we know about working around families. Working around other trades. And most importantly putting the finishing touches to your home. Why? Because we are house painters!

For Your House Only, Painters

Warm Up for Summer. Colour Consultants Melbourne

The days are getting longer…

…and before you know it Spring will be with us. Then you’ll be settling down for lunch with friends in your beautiful freshly painted home. Did you use a colour Consultant?
The most difficult task in painting your home. Isn’t the painting, we’ll do that. But you choosing the colours. Here’s a little help…two words Colour Consultants.

Well have our own Sterling Colour Consultant, she’s very good. Yes, picking colours isn’t as easy as you might like to think!

Paint Colour Consultant Inspiration:

Dulux Colour Movement

“We are in motion, movement is all around us – a blur of colour, a subtle shift of light, a merge of shadows. Movement is social change, the rise of a nation, the protest of people, the progress of the digital age. The Dulux Colour Forecast – Colour Movement, explores how colour is moving around us, shifting and changing along with our world and all that is in it.”

Dulux as always provides lots of seasonal ideas, and gadgets to help. ‘MyColour Visualiser’ as great tool, just upload your picture and literally colour it in.

Stealing Painting Ideas:

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Pinterest is great for ideas, search for ‘Weatherboards’, ‘interiors’. Or if you’re after a particular look, search for that. And yes Sterling Painters have been pinned a few times.

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If you see a house in your suburb that you like, yes we can ask for the colour scheme for you. As the quote says “Imitation is the sincerest [form] of flattery”. It’s okay to ask your friends too!

Help! If all else fails then there’s always help available…

Need some other professional advice on colour?

Porter’s Paints Colour Consultancy

Porter’s Paints pride themselves on the specialist advice their staff offer customers every day in their showrooms on colour and product selection. They can also offer this advice to you in your own home through Porter’s Paints on-site consultation service.

Their team is made up of fully qualified colour consultants who have extensive experience in developing interior and exterior colour schemes and have an in-depth knowledge of Porter’ Paints colours and products.

31/07/2013
Stylish Victorian Weatherboard Exterior. Seddon
Painting Weatherboard Exterior

As weatherboard exterior painters, we never tire of painting weatherboards. Whilst they all look similar, no two are the same, they all have their own personalities, does this have something to do with the owner?

This weatherboard house was no exception to the rule. The rule being preparation and yet more preparation. Sanding, more sanding. Filling and gapping, sometimes we even get to paint!! Usually, with painting a weatherboard house, the preparation takes longer than the painting. Why? Because this is the ‘rule’!

How your home looks is a reflection of you. A well painted house, and well kept house, tells the world what you think of yourself. We paint many sorts and styles of weatherboard houses. From the classic and grown up weatherboard, with black painted front doors, to the cheerful cottage, with bright friendly colours. How do you see your weatherboard house painted? What will the paint colour scheme say about you? Are you as stylish as this weatheboard house owner?

Dulux Popular Exterior Paint Colour Schemes Here to give you a few ideas, but if you have a strong idea already, go with it.

Paint Used:
- Dulux Weathershield Low Sheen – Gaiety Tan.
- Dulux Weathershield Gloss – Clotted Cream.
- Weathershield Dulux Low Sheen – Monument.
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07/05/2013
Lime Washing the Seventies. Essendon

Lime Washing Over Another Decade

A bright orange varnished ceiling, showing the dated look of the extension. Making the ceiling look as if it were just a metre or so above your head. Well something has to be done! Lime washing. What would we as Interior House Painters do?

The customers originally wanted the ceiling painted white, however this would mean every crack inbetween the panels would show. We recommended painting a white wash or a lime wash to calm down the wooden panels instead and the customers were happy to go with this.

One of our problems was, we had was the wooden panels. Which were originally varnished with an oiled based varnish. That means we had to apply an oil based product too, because oil and water don’t mix. White wash and Lime Wash usually are acylic (water-based)! Taking advice from the PaintSpot paintshop, we used a ‘lime wash’ formula and tinted up an oil based varnish.

Painting Techniques

Random is very hard to achive. We have to apply the varnish evenly, and because it’s varnish we have to apply it by brush and not by roller. Using a roller would even out the lime wash into a opaque liquid, which is not a good look anyway. So we brushed this ceiling by hand, three times!

Paints Used:

Wattyl Estapol Clear Satin – Lime Wash

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29/04/2013
Wallpaper Retailer Showroom – Clifton Hill
Wallpaper Hanging and Wallpaper Hangers

A good way to sell wallpaper is to hang wallpaper in your showroom, sounds obvious, and this is one of my favourite wallpapers. It really shows what is out there and how wallpaper has developed over the past few years. As interior painters, this is something we have a lot of experience of.

Yes wallpaper is classic, and it is retro, but it’s also modern and is at the forefront of design. Everything from the classic flock, through to murials, and specially printed designs of images you’ve provided. You could even have your favourite image of your cat made into wallpaper, if that’s what you want.

Graphical prints are getting more and more popular, reinventing classic designs, as here , and turning pop culture and graffiti into something that comes in rolls. Wallpaper hanging is proving to be very cool at the moment.

Wallpaper Installation

And still, wallpaper hanging has it’s own set of problems. And it won’t disguise a badly plastered wall either! Some cheaper wallpapers are waffer thin and have no backing. Expensive ones are individually hand printed. And patterns and colours don’t match even within the same roll. Because of these problems, amongst others, I find wallpaper hanging can be very difficult. And as so, I wouldn’t recommend a novice attempting it.

Wallpaper Installed:
- Eijffinger – Stripes.
- Clarke & Clarke – Empress Rose.
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21/04/2013
Classic Interior House Painting – Kensington
Interior House Painting

Interior House Painting, not only painters, but much more. The owner chose the paint colours based upon a recently purchased painting. The room simply had to go with her new acquisition. Well you can always repaint a room, a good piece of art will last a lifetime! That’s what we as Interior House Painters do.

House Painting, takes a little more than just painting the interior of your house. Most importantly it’s your home that’s getting painted. We treat your home like our own homes, why? Because it’s your home and not a building site. We’ll take care of not just the painting, but your belongings.

Yes, we do ask you to remove the delicate and expensive items. We do ask you to get your home ready for the painters. Whilst we can usually help with the bigger furniture items, we are not removalists, because we would like to get on with the painting.

Paints Used:
- Dulux Wash & Wear Flat – Sandy Day ¼.
- Dulux Wash & Wear Low Sheen – Sandy Day.
- Super Enamel Dulux Semi Gloss – White.
Customer Quote:

“Chris was great to work with again! Nothing was too much trouble, including repainting the lounge room twice when I changed my mind about the colour. What I’m most impressed with though is the quality of the job that Chris does – his attention to detail is fantastic. I’m a repeat customer and wouldn’t hesitate to recommend Sterling Painters.”

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08/04/2013