Belmont, VIC · Case study
Interior House Painting in Belmont — Exeter Grove
A lighter cream interior that still suits the home's natural timber
- Location
- Belmont, VIC
- Project
- Interior colour refresh
- Scope
- Walls, ceilings and internal doors
Project overview
About this project
Highlight Painting completed an interior painting refresh at Exeter Grove in Belmont, replacing an older deep cream with a lighter, more contemporary cream while keeping the warmth the home needed.
Unlike some older Belmont homes we have worked on, this house had seen little movement or cracking, so the surfaces needed only standard preparation. The walls and ceilings were repainted in Dulux Antique White USA, and the internal doors were painted on a return visit about a month later.
Scope of work
What was painted
Interior
- Walls throughout
- Ceilings throughout
- Internal timber doors — return visit
- Cavity sliding doors — return visit
- Architraves, skirting boards and exterior doors kept in natural timber
The brief
Brightening the walls without losing the cream
The client wanted to brighten and modernise the deeper cream walls. Moving away from cream entirely wasn't suitable, because the new colour still had to sit comfortably with parts of the home that were not being painted.
The natural timber was an important part of the home's character. The architraves, skirting boards and exterior doors were kept in their existing timber finish, and Dulux Antique White USA was selected as a lighter cream that complements them.
Preparation and painting
Standard preparation and a lighter cream
With the surfaces in good condition, preparation involved filling minor dents and imperfections, re-gapping where needed and sanding to give a clean, consistent base.
The walls and ceilings were then repainted in Dulux Antique White USA, which brightened the rooms while keeping enough warmth to suit the natural timber.
Colours and finishes recorded
| Surface | Colour or product | Finish |
|---|---|---|
| Walls and ceilings | Dulux Antique White USA | Repainted |
| Internal and cavity sliding doors | Painted on a return visit | — |
| Architraves, skirting boards, exterior doors | Existing natural timber | Not painted |
On site
The doors that changed the scope
Once the walls and ceilings were lighter, the internal timber doors and cavity sliding doors looked noticeably more dated beside them. Painting them had not been part of the original scope.
After living with the new colours for about a month, the client asked Highlight Painting to return and paint the internal and cavity sliding doors. That brought them into line with the refreshed walls and ceilings and gave the interior a more cohesive finish.
Before and after
Project photographs
Genuine photographs from this project. Click any photo to view it full size.
Before 4 photos
After 7 photos
Related painting services
The services behind this project
This was an interior house painting project driven by colour. If you are weighing up how a new wall colour will sit with timber you are keeping, it is worth discussing before work starts. See also the Charles Street project in Belmont, where movement cracking needed extensive repair before repainting. The Belmont overview is painters in Belmont.
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