Painters in Hawthorn for
brick, weatherboard & period homes.
Period detail, weatherboard and every trim in between.
Mousi restores and repaints Hawthorn’s period homes — weatherboard envelopes, timber windows, trim around face brick — and its interiors, walk-ups included. Owner-managed, preparation-led, insured for Public Liability and WorkCover.
Face brick, weatherboard
and a hundred years
of trim.
A lot of Hawthorn’s character lives in surfaces that should never see paint — Victorian and Edwardian face brick that stays bare while the craft goes into everything around it: eaves, fascias, fretwork, verandah posts, sash windows and iron lacework. The weatherboard streets ask the opposite, full envelope preparation from laps to gable. Add rendered townhouses, post-war brick and a large stock of flats — over half the suburb’s homes are apartments (2021 Census), many in interwar walk-ups with their own repaint rhythms — and Hawthorn rewards a painter who knows which surface gets which treatment, and writes it down before starting.
Five services for
period streets.
Heritage leads in Hawthorn because the housing does. Under every service: the surface checked first, preparation written into the scope, the system matched to the substrate rather than a default product.
Each card links to the full Melbourne service page.
Victorian and Edwardian homes prepared to restoration grade — lead-aware sanding, hand work on fretwork and lacework, period colour matched to the era rather than a generic chart.
Exterior Painting Melbourne →Whole weatherboard envelopes: split and sprung boards repaired with fillers rated for timber movement, oil-based primer worked into old grain, laps and edges coated for the long run.
Exterior Painting Melbourne →On face-brick homes the paintwork lives around the brick — eaves, fascias, verandah posts, window joinery, gutters and downpipes — with the brickwork itself masked and protected.
Exterior Painting Melbourne →Period interiors with original cornices, roses and deep skirtings, cut in by hand and staged room by room — plus apartment and walk-up interiors across the suburb’s flats.
Interior Painting Melbourne →Tile and metal roofs restored and coated to match the standard of the home under them — assessment, repairs and rust treatment before any colour.
Roof Painting Melbourne →Period Hawthorn
is its own trade.
Hawthorn’s Victorian and Edwardian streets include properties under Heritage Overlays in the Boroondara Planning Scheme. Victoria’s planning provisions generally exempt repainting an already-painted surface unless a property’s overlay schedule includes paint controls, and Boroondara asks owners to confirm permit requirements through its own planning tools — so check your property’s entry with council before an exterior scheme is settled. The homes themselves demand restoration-grade work either way: lead-aware preparation, hand work on fretwork and lacework, colours that suit the era. Heritage work runs as its own discipline here, with restoration-grade preparation at its centre.
Heritage Painting MelbournePreparation you can read
before we start.
Whether it’s one bedroom or a full weatherboard envelope, every project moves through the same sequence — and every decision in it reaches you in writing before work begins.
Request Your Hawthorn 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.
One name answers
for the finish.
Mac Mousivand — Founder and Project Consultant. Certificate III in Painting and Decorating; working in Melbourne’s painting industry since 2006. Mac walks the property, writes the scope and stays the single point of contact from consultation to the final review — on this project, accountability has a name.
Painting in Hawthorn,
answered directly.
What Hawthorn owners want settled before a quote. If your question isn’t here, just ask.
Request Your Hawthorn QuoteAll of Hawthorn and Hawthorn East, plus Kew, Camberwell and Canterbury next door — the western Boroondara streets are our home ground, and referrals between neighbours are how most local work reaches us.
On most Victorian and Edwardian brick homes, original face brick is commonly preserved and the paintwork lives in the timber and metal: eaves, fascias, barges, verandah posts, fretwork, window joinery, doors, gutters and downpipes. We mask and protect bare brickwork while that detail is painted. Where masonry has been painted before, or a deliberate coated finish is specified, a different preparation and system applies — we set out the options and their consequences before you commit.
Yes. Parts of Hawthorn sit under Heritage Overlays in the Boroondara Planning Scheme, where external changes can carry permit requirements — check your property’s schedule entry with council. Our dedicated heritage practice scopes overlay work with lead-aware preparation and period colour.
An on-site walk-through with a senior team member, then a fully itemised written proposal — repairs, preparation, specified systems, colours, timeline. No allowances hidden, nothing substituted without your knowledge.
That’s the normal way our Hawthorn interiors run — one room at a time, furniture protected or moved within the room, low-VOC products in occupied spaces, and every area left clean and usable at the end of each day.
At home across
Boroondara’s west.
We paint homes across Hawthorn and Hawthorn East, over the hill in Kew, and through Camberwell and Canterbury — the streets that join them included. See the residential practice for the full breadth of what we paint nearby.
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 :)
Selected Mousi period-home projects across Melbourne.
Victorian and Edwardian exteriors, weatherboards and timber detail, with the interior and specialist finishes that go with them — each project labelled with its true location.
Book your Hawthorn 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.