If you’re looking to hire a professional painter to decorate your home, you’ll be looking to pay around £400 for a medium-sized room, and around £750 for a hallway, stairs and landing.
Wallpapering a medium-sized room is around £225 to hang and around £400 to strip and hang, but if you don’t have the time or the expertise for that flawless finish, calling in the experts is definitely worth it.
Whether you’re giving your home a revamp or looking to put your house on the market, decorating rooms can have a radical impact. But, to get the best finish, employing a professional to do the job can often provide the best results.
If you’re weighing up whether to do it yourself or hire a painter and decorator, it can be beneficial to know the potential cost of decorating a room which is why we’ve created this cost guide.
In this guide, we cover:
How much should it cost to paint a room?
The cost to paint a room can vary greatly, but we’ve put together average prices based on feedback we’ve received from customers who used painters and decorators they found through My Local Toolbox.
Below we’ve outlined average costs (excluding any significant repairs like plaster skimming) – to get accurate quotes from painters and decorators near you post a job.
Project | Average price |
Painting a medium sized room (around 30m2) | £350 |
Painting a 2-bed flat | £500 – 2,100 |
Painting a 3-bed house | £2,100 – 3,100 |
Painting a 4-bed house | £2,600 – 3,600 |
Painting a 5-bed house | £3,000 – 4,250 |
Painting hallway, stairs & landing | £750 |
Painting ceilings | £325 |
Painting skirting boards (1 room) | £150 |