Painters in Collinswood

Strata work in Adelaide's Inner Northern Suburbs comes with its own rules: committee approvals, notice to residents, access to balconies and common areas, and a colour scheme that has to stay consistent across the whole building. A South Australian painter who does this regularly in Collinswood can provide the scope, product data and insurance details a committee needs to vote, and then deliver the job without residents feeling they have been invaded.

This is one of the oldest parts of suburban Adelaide. Medindie, Gilberton, Walkerville and Fitzroy hold grand bluestone and sandstone villas from the late 1800s, some with slate roofs, timber fretwork and rendered quoins. Prospect, Nailsworth and Thorngate are known for Federation villas and 1920s bungalows in brick, freestone and rough-cast render, with a scattering of Tudor-style homes from the 1930s. Collinswood, Broadview, Sefton Park and Vale Park filled in between the wars and after, mostly in cream and red brick with rendered gables. Kilburn and Blair Athol were largely Housing Trust double brick from the 1950s, and today these two suburbs carry most of the region's new rendered townhouses and two-storey infill. Ovingham has small workers' cottages beside the railway.