Interior Painting

Most interior repaints look fine for about a month before the shortcuts show up: a filled nail hole that telegraphs through under raking light, a colour change that needed three coats but only got two, a ceiling that was cut in with a brush but never actually rolled evenly. The paint itself is rarely the problem. It's almost always the prep, or the number of coats, that separates a job that looks good at handover from one that still looks good a year later.

New Zealand's two big paint brands, Resene and Dulux, both make interior ranges suited to different rooms: low-sheen or matt finishes for living areas and bedrooms, and a washable, moisture-tolerant finish (often called kitchen and bathroom or semi-gloss) for wet areas and high-traffic hallways. Which one a room needs depends on how it's used, not just the colour you've picked, and it's worth asking your painter to confirm the finish before they quote rather than after.

Tell us the rooms, the current wall condition, and how easy the space is to work in, and we'll match your enquiry to one local painter who scopes interior jobs properly rather than guessing a square metre rate over the phone.