Painters in Kew for
period and contemporary homes.
Interiors, exteriors and everything the street sees.
Mousi is a Melbourne painting practice working across Kew’s homes — full interiors, weatherboard and rendered exteriors, roofs, and the period detail the suburb is known for. Owner-managed and preparation-led, insured for Public Liability and WorkCover.
One suburb, a century
of housing — and a painter
for all of it.
Kew doesn’t have one kind of house. Off High Street and Cotham Road the streets mix Victorian and Edwardian homes with solid post-war brick, 1970s courtyard houses, contemporary rebuilds and townhouses — often three eras in a single block. Each asks for something different from a painter: restoration-grade preparation on hundred-year-old timber, render systems on modern facades, clean plasterboard finishes inside, and a roof that matches the standard of everything under it.
We work across all of it, on the same terms every time — and the process below puts those terms in writing.
Six services,
one standard of
preparation.
Every service below runs on the same discipline: the surface is checked before painting, the preparation is written into your scope, and the system — primer, undercoat, finish — is specified to the substrate rather than defaulted to one product.
Follow any service through to its full Melbourne page for the detail of how that work is done.
Walls, ceilings, trims, doors and staircases across Kew’s family homes and townhouses — staged room by room, low-VOC in occupied spaces, and cut in properly around the joinery and cornices that make these interiors.
Interior Painting Melbourne →Render, brick, timber and trim prepared back to sound material, primed to the substrate and finished to weather evenly — with gardens, paths and boundaries protected while the work happens above them.
Exterior Painting Melbourne →Kew’s weatherboard homes move with the seasons — boards split, spring and shed their coatings. We repair with flexible fillers rated for timber movement, prime oil-based into old grain, and finish for the long run, not the first summer.
Timber repair · Movement allowed for · Primed to the grainTile, Colorbond and metal roofs restored before any coating goes on — ridge work, rust treatment and flashing repair first. Recent Mousi roof projects include a Colorbond restoration on a weatherboard home here in Kew.
Roof Painting Melbourne →Victorian, Edwardian and Federation exteriors need their own discipline — lead-aware preparation, hand work on fretwork and lacework, period colour. In Kew we run this as a dedicated service with its own page.
Heritage Painting Melbourne →Colour consultation with samples brushed out on your actual surfaces, plus Venetian plaster, limewash and microcement for feature interiors — specified, applied and recorded like everything else we do.
Colour Consultation → · Decorative Finishes →Own a period home?
Kew gets its own
heritage service.
A meaningful share of Kew sits within Heritage Overlays under the Boroondara Planning Scheme, and its Victorian, Edwardian and Federation homes carry surfaces that a standard repaint approach gets wrong — lead-era coatings, lime-rich render, original sash joinery and decorative timber that rushed work destroys.
That work is different enough that we treat it as its own discipline, with its own preparation sequence, period colour approach and overlay-aware scoping. If your home is pre-war, start there.
Heritage Painting MelbourneFrom walk-through
to final check, in writing.
Whether it’s a single living room off Studley Park Road or a full weatherboard exterior near Kew Junction, every project moves through the same sequence — and every decision in it reaches you in writing before work begins.
Request Your Kew QuoteA senior Mousi team member walks the property with you, checks the surfaces and discusses the brief in full. Colour consultation is included.
A fully itemised proposal, surface by surface — repairs, preparation, systems, colours and timeline.
Floors, furniture, gardens and boundaries protected; interior work staged room by room and exteriors elevation by elevation so the home stays livable throughout. Multi-storey homes and steep blocks are assessed for access at the walk-through, with scaffolding planned into the scope before pricing.
Surfaces washed, sanded, repaired and primed — the stage that decides how the finish holds.
The specified system built up in the coats it calls for — sprayed where it should be, brushed where it must be — with the site left tidy and safe at the end of every day.
The finished work checked against the written scope with you, and every colour and product recorded — retained as a Property Passport™ on qualifying projects — for precise future matching.
Painting in Kew,
answered directly.
The questions Kew owners ask us most before their first quote. If yours isn’t here, we’re happy to discuss it directly.
Request Your Kew QuoteAll of Kew and Kew East, plus neighbouring Boroondara suburbs like Hawthorn, Balwyn, Camberwell and Canterbury. Most of our work in the area comes through referrals between neighbouring streets.
Yes. Kew’s housing runs from Victorian and Edwardian homes through solid post-war brick to contemporary rebuilds and townhouses, and we work across all of it. Modern homes are specified for their substrates — render systems, new timber, plasterboard interiors — while period homes get restoration-grade preparation. For heritage and period work specifically, we run a dedicated heritage painting practice with its own approach to old surfaces, lead-era coatings and period colour.
That’s how most of our Kew interiors run. Work is staged room by room so the home stays livable, furniture is protected or shifted within the room, low-VOC products are used in occupied spaces, and each area is left clean and usable at the end of the day. For families working around school runs and routines, the staging is agreed with you before work starts.
We quote from an on-site inspection, not from photos. A senior Mousi team member walks the property with you, checks the surfaces, and you receive a written, itemised scope — what will be prepared, repaired and painted, the products specified, the colours, and the timeline — before any work is agreed. The price you accept is the project you get; nothing is substituted without your knowledge.
Mousi carries Public Liability and WorkCover insurance, and every project is owner-managed with a single point of contact from consultation through to completion. Surfaces are checked before painting and a written scope is provided before work begins.
At home across
Boroondara.
We paint homes across Kew, Kew East and Studley Park, and next door in Hawthorn — along with Balwyn, Camberwell and Canterbury and the Boroondara streets between. For period homes and everything else we paint, browse our residential painting practice and service areas.
Mac and his team have done a fantastic job with all exteriors of our house, including weather boards, fascias, eaves, window frames, and render walls. They never compromised high quality standards for any reasons, and they paid attention to every single detail. Meanwhile, they were always professional, well planned, higly communicative, and friendly to every family member, including our dog, Gizmo. Strongly recommended for any painting jobs.
Mousi painting and coating solutions were brilliant. After several disasters with tradies Mac and his team were the best I’ve ever had. Totally professional, experienced and meticulous. Very courteous and knowledgeable about his trade. They arrived on time always. I would highly recommend them. Thank you so much.
Really happy with this Great business! Mac and Matteo were very respectful and wonderful people to have in our home while we went through the chaos of painting our house inside and outside. They went above and beyond to do their best for us. Thoroughly recommend to anyone looking for great prices and professional service.
Mousi Painting & Coating Solutions transformed our outdated interior with fresh, vibrant colours. The painters were punctual, professional, and really took the time to ensure everything was done perfectly. They were respectful of our space and worked efficiently. We love how everything turned out. Wouldn’t hesitate to recommend them!
Very impressed with the full interior and exterior painting of our house. The quality, attention to detail, and professionalism were outstanding. Everything was completed on time and to a high standard. Would definitely use them again and highly recommend their work.
Mac and his team did a fantastic job painting our internal doors and also staining 4 heavy french doors. The job is excellent, very good attention to detail. Mac was easy going, reliable and very hard working. Definitely would recommend him and his team. Thank you :)
Real Mousi projects, start to finish.
Access, preparation, restoration and finished homes across Melbourne.
Book your Kew quote inspection.
Tell us about the project — interior, exterior, roof or the whole home — and a senior Mousi team member will walk the property with you and provide a written, itemised scope before any work is agreed.
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Qualifying projects include a Property Passport™ — a retained record of your finish systems, colours and product specifications for future matching and touch-ups. Ongoing care is available through Mousi Care™, our annual membership covering inspection, priority scheduling and finish maintenance.