House painters · Hobart, Tasmania
Bright, tidy painting for Hobart homes
Derwent Painting Co. repaints houses across Hobart, from Sandy Bay living rooms to Battery Point sandstone fronts. We spend most of our time on preparation, help you settle on colours before a tin is opened, and leave every room cleaner than we found it.
- Free on-site measure
- Drop sheets and daily clean-up
- Written colour schedule
What we paint
Pick a chip, any chip
Most jobs are a mix: a few rooms inside, the weatherboards outside, a front door that needs some love. One crew, one quote, one tidy finish.
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Exteriors
Weatherboards, render, eaves and decks, prepared properly for Hobart sun and salt air.
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Heritage homes
Lead-safe preparation and period colour schemes for Georgian, Victorian and Federation homes.
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Colour help
Sample pots, painted boards and a written colour schedule before anyone opens a tin.
How a job runs
Four coats of good manners
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Measure and quote
We visit, measure every wall and talk through what bothers you. You get a written, itemised quote within two working days.
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Choose colours
Sample pots go on boards, not your walls. We check them in morning and afternoon light, then write up a colour schedule.
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Prepare properly
Washing, scraping, filling, sanding and priming. It’s the slow part that makes paint last, so we never rush it.
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Paint and tidy
Two finish coats, edges cut in by hand, furniture back where it was. A final walk-through with you before we pack up.
Hobart painting weather
Outside when it’s mild, inside when it’s not
Exterior paint needs dry timber and mild temperatures to cure well, and Hobart winters bring cold mornings and heavy dew off kunanyi / Mount Wellington. We book outside work for the warmer months and keep interiors for winter, so nothing is painted in weather that will make it fail early.
Booking an exterior for next summer? It’s worth asking for a quote in winter or early spring.
- JanOutside
- FebOutside
- MarOutside
- AprOutside
- MayCheck
- JunInside
- JulInside
- AugInside
- SepCheck
- OctOutside
- NovOutside
- DecOutside
- Exterior season
- Depends on the week
- Interiors only
Fresh from the gallery
Recent rooms and fronts
Derwent BlueBlues
Living room, Sandy Bay
Walls in a mid blue, ceiling and trims in crisp white. Two coats of low-sheen washable acrylic over patched plaster.
Quote this look: Living room, Sandy BaySea MintGreens
Kitchen walls and cabinets, Bellerive
Pale mint walls and sprayed cabinet doors in a deeper green, finished in a hard-wearing satin.
Quote this look: Kitchen walls and cabinets, BelleriveWattle YellowYellows
Kids’ bedroom, West Hobart
A sunny scrubbable wall finish, low-odour paint and a room done in one day so bedtime was back to normal.
Quote this look: Kids’ bedroom, West Hobart
What customers say
Sample reviews
“They covered every bit of floor, moved the piano twice and had the hallway done before school pick-up. The blue is exactly what we picked.”
Megan, West Hobart “Our 1910 weatherboards had flaking paint everywhere. The crew tested for lead first and explained every step. Neat, polite and on time.”
Graham, New Town “The colour boards helped so much. We’d never have chosen that green on our own, and now everyone asks about the front door.”
Priya, Bellerive
Sample reviews written for this demo website. On your site, these come from real customers.
Painting across greater Hobart
We work across the city and both sides of the Derwent, from Kingston to Glenorchy and over to the Eastern Shore.
Ready for a fresh coat?
Tell us which rooms or walls you have in mind and we’ll book a free measure and quote. Prefer to talk? Call (03) 5550 1486.