Bespoke Living · Rental Refresh
Between-tenancy refresh for Gold Coast landlords. Clean, touch-up paint, garden, pressure-wash and the small repairs — done in one visit, by one bloke, on one invoice.
Fixed quote from $895 a 2-bed unit · Gold Coast & Tweed Heads
The problem
On the Gold Coast a week of vacancy is real money out of your pocket — and a tired-looking property sits vacant longer and lets for less. The usual fix is four separate trades, four quotes and three weeks of chasing.
A cleaner, a gardener, a handyman, someone for the touch-ups. Each one books a week out and none of them talk to each other.
You get four prices for four bits and still don't know what the property will actually cost to turn around.
Especially if you're interstate or self-managing. Nobody sends photos, so you take their word for it.
Fixed prices
Every Rental Refresh covers the same work — the full list is right below these prices. The only thing that changes is how big the property is and how many days it takes. Most Gold Coast rentals are a Full Refresh.
Unit or townhouse, up to 2 bedrooms
House, up to 3 bedrooms
Four-plus bedrooms, or a place that's been let go
Touch-ups are already included at every tier — patching and spot-painting marks, scuffs and nail holes. If you want a whole room done properly, walls prepped and two coats rolled, that's added as its own line:
+$350 a feature wall · +$650 a full room · two rooms maximum
Painting a room properly takes time, so it buys time as well as paint: each room adds about half a day to the booking. A Full Refresh with two rooms painted runs three days rather than two, and the quote says so before you agree to it. The feature-wall price is a minimum charge — it's only worth doing while we're already on site.
Shown as a separate painting line on your quote, never bundled into the tier price, and capped at $1,300 so it stays well under the $3,300 QBCC licensing threshold. Anything bigger than that is a full repaint, and it gets referred to a licensed painter rather than fudged.
Every price is a fixed quote, confirmed in writing before any work starts. Terms are 50% deposit to book the dates, balance 30 days from completion, and a 24-month workmanship warranty. The tier is set by the size of the property, not by taste — a three-bedroom house is a Full Refresh. The one thing that moves it is condition: if a place has genuinely been let go, it steps up a tier, and you'll hear that at the walk-through before you commit, not afterwards. Anything outside these shapes is quoted the same way: a firm number, in writing, before we start.
Scope
Written down plainly, because most arguments on this kind of job come from someone assuming something was included.
Need new blinds or curtains while the place is empty? That's the easiest time to do it, and it's what we do best — ask for a window furnishings quote at the same visit. See the range →
How it works
Two minutes on the phone, or the form below. Tell me the property and when the new tenant is due.
Usually within 48 hours of the property being empty. You get a fixed price in writing, itemised.
One or two days on site, start to finish. You don't have to be there or coordinate anyone.
A full photo set the day we finish, so you can see it's done and get it straight back on the market.
Who you're dealing with
"You get me on the phone and me on the tools. That's the whole point."
— Steve Perry, Bespoke Living
Bespoke Living is owner-operated. There's no call centre, no franchise fee built into your quote and no subcontractor you've never met turning up. Where a licensed trade is genuinely needed — an electrician, a plumber, a licensed painter — I arrange it and manage it, and you still get one invoice.
Right across the Gold Coast — Southport, Surfers Paradise, Broadbeach, Mermaid, Burleigh Heads, Palm Beach, Currumbin, Robina, Varsity Lakes, Nerang, Helensvale, Hope Island, Coomera, Pacific Pines and Ormeau — plus Tweed Heads and the Northern NSW border suburbs.
Questions
Usually a walk-through within 48 hours of the place being empty, and the work booked within the week after that. If you know the vacate date in advance, ring me before it happens and I'll hold the dates.
No. Plenty of the properties we refresh are owned by people who live interstate or overseas. Arrange key access however suits — agent, lockbox, neighbour — and you'll get the photo set the day we finish.
Yes. You get a written quote before anything starts and that's the number on the invoice. The only thing that changes it is you asking for extra work, and that gets quoted separately before it's done.
Not as part of a Rental Refresh. Touch-ups are included at every tier, and you can add a feature wall at $350 or a full room at $650, up to two rooms. Beyond that it stops being a refresh and becomes a repaint: painting work over $3,300 including labour and materials needs a QBCC painting licence in Queensland, so anything that size gets referred to a licensed painter rather than squeezed in.
Both can be arranged as part of the same visit so you're still only making one call — they're quoted separately on top of the package price, at cost plus a small coordination fee.
Yes, and gladly. If you manage a rent roll and want one number for turnovers instead of four, get in touch — see Property Care for how that works.
Get a quote
Quickest way is a phone call — most landlords with a vacant property want an answer today, not an email on Thursday.
Ring me directly. If I'm on a roof or under a house I'll call you straight back.
📞 0430 811 684