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  • A small room with a dark navy vertical-joint panelled wall, stained timber shelving and dark window trim.
    The same panelled wall repainted in soft sage green, with the shelves and brackets painted to match and crisp white surrounds.
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    Panelled feature wall

    Vertical-joint panelling taken from a heavy navy to a soft sage, with the shelves and brackets brought back in the same tone.

  • A narrow powder room in a flat, even pale pink, masked up with painter's tape along the skirting and drop sheets down, beside a leadlight window.
    The same powder room finished in a mottled rose French wash — a warm, hand-worked decorative paint effect — with the leadlight window and cornice cut in cleanly.
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    Powder room French wash

    A plain pink powder room given a rose French wash — a mottled decorative finish worked on by hand, cut in tight around the leadlight window and cornice.

  • An interior corner with a dull blue wall, cracked and flaking plaster above the skirting, and a chipped skirting board.
    The same corner after repair and repainting, with smooth white walls and a clean, freshly coated skirting board.
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    Plaster repair & repaint

    Blown plaster above the skirting cut out, filled and sanded flush before recoating — the repair disappears under the topcoat.

  • A narrow bathroom with a varnished timber-lined ceiling, a dark-stained window frame and cream walls above white wall tiles.
    The same bathroom with the timber ceiling and the walls painted white, brightening the room end to end.
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    Bathroom ceiling & walls

    A varnished timber-lined ceiling covered out to white and the walls taken with it, cut in tight around the light, the vent and the window.

  • An exterior window with a raw, unpainted pine frame and reveal set into a dark charcoal rendered wall.
    The same window with the frame and reveal finished in deep charcoal, reading as one surface with the rendered wall.
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    Window frame & surround

    A replacement window's raw timber frame and reveal taken to a deep charcoal, so it sits with the rendered wall instead of against it.

  • A two-storey weatherboard home mid-build, wrapped in scaffolding with bare framing and blue sarking exposed.
    The same home finished in crisp white, with painted weatherboards, verandah balustrades and trim under a clear sky.
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    New build exterior

    The whole outside of a new build, painted from bare boards up — weatherboards, verandah balustrades, fascias and trim.

  • A long backyard boundary fence in a patchy pink-beige, with a white lattice gate and a ladder leaning against the far end.
    The same fence recoated in an even grey-green across every panel, with the white lattice gate standing out against it.
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    Boundary fence repaint

    A long boundary fence taken from a patchy pink-beige to an even grey-green, panel by panel down to the capping.

  • A galley kitchen with honey-toned timber cabinet doors and drawers, a dark benchtop and a teal splashback.
    The same kitchen with every cabinet door and drawer front finished in flat black against white walls and ceiling.
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    Kitchen cabinet respray

    Honey-toned timber doors and panels resprayed to a flat black, with the walls and ceiling around them kept white.

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  • A bedroom with a blotchy dark maroon feature wall behind the bed and a discoloured ceiling.
    The same bedroom repainted, with clean white walls and a fresh white ceiling brightening the space.
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    Bedroom repaint

    A patchy dark feature wall covered out and the whole room brought back to a clean white, ceiling included.

  • A newly built timber paling fence with bare pine palings and grey steel posts, beside an unfinished pool surround with a wheelbarrow on the concrete.
    The same fence coated in a dark blue-grey, with the pool surround now finished in pale decking and glass balustrading.
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    Poolside fence

    A new paling fence coated in a dark blue-grey once the pool surround was finished — palings, rails and posts all the one tone.

  • An open-plan office with a deep navy wall behind stacked black-and-chrome chairs and white desks pushed to one side.
    The same office with the wall repainted a light neutral, the desks set back out and the room noticeably brighter.
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    Office repaint

    A deep navy office wall covered out to a light neutral, worked around a working floor with the desks and chairs stacked aside.

  • An empty room mid-job with patched plasterboard walls in mismatched grey and green undercoat, and painting gear on the bare floor.
    The same room with walls and ceiling finished in an even off-white, lit by the ceiling fan light, with the gear cleared away.
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    New build interior

    Patched, part-coated plasterboard taken through to finished walls and ceiling, then cleared out ready to hand over.

  • A shaded courtyard with a grey concrete block wall and weathered timber paling fence, and a painter setting out tins on a drop sheet.
    The same courtyard with the block wall and paling fence both finished in a soft pale green, dappled with shade from the trees.
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    Courtyard walls & fence

    Blockwork and a timber paling fence brought to one soft green — a single colour carried across two very different surfaces.

  • A small bathroom with dull beige walls above cream wall tiles with a green border stripe, and a shower curtain over the bath.
    The same bathroom with the walls above the tiles repainted a soft mint green, picking up the green stripe in the tile border.
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    Bathroom repaint

    Tired beige walls above the original tiles taken to a soft mint that picks up the green line running through the tile border.

  • A long timber paling fence in bare pine running above a concrete retaining wall, beside an unfinished pool shell.
    The same fence run coated in a near-black charcoal, standing against the concrete retaining wall and the trees behind it.
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    Pool surround fence

    The long run above the pool retaining wall, taken from bare pine to a near-black charcoal in one pass along the boundary.

  • A gym interior with bright orange walls and a matching orange structural column, resistance bands hung on the wall and a bench press on the rubber floor.
    The same gym with the walls finished in a deep blue and the column in grey, a painter cutting in at floor level beside the equipment.
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    Gym repaint

    Bright orange walls covered out to a deep blue and the column taken to grey — painted around the equipment rather than emptying the room.

  • A newly laid timber deck and steps in pale, untreated boards, in front of a grey weatherboard studio with white French doors.
    The same deck and steps after coating, the boards now a deep red-brown against the grey weatherboard studio.
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    New deck coated

    A newly laid deck and its steps given a coat that pulls the red out of the boards, against a grey weatherboard studio.

  • A raised timber deck with dull, dry boards, a dust extractor sitting on the surface and the balustrade posts only partly built.
    The same deck finished in a deep red-brown, with the timber balustrade and its wire infill complete and coated to match.
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    Deck & balustrade

    A raised deck coated together with its timber balustrade, so the boards, posts and rails all finish on the same tone.

  • A street-level shopfront strip with tired grey-beige rendered walls and columns beneath a blue and white signage band.Before
    The same shopfront after painting, the render now a clean off-white with the awning soffit and beams finished in black.After

    Shopfront repaint

    A two-shop strip frontage taken from a tired grey render to a clean off-white, with the awning soffit picked out in black.

  • A McGill Painting painter on a ladder, cutting in white trim beneath a verandah balustrade on a weatherboard home.

    On the tools

    Cutting in the trim beneath a verandah balustrade — the slow part that decides the finish.

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