About this site

Welcome to our brand new website, a site that’s designed to make finding the inspiration you need for your next painting project easy and enjoyable. You’ll find everything you need like inspirational photos, colours and schemes, paint and accessory products and advice from the experts and special promotional offers. 

Best of all, you can collect all this information and keep it in one place.  We call it  ‘My Inspiration’. Plus, if you’ve recently painted a room or even a feature wall, take a photo and share it in our photo gallery – who knows, it just might provide the inspiration someone else needs! We hope you enjoy it and we would love to hear your comments. Let the inspiration begin!

About us

Inspirations Paint & Colour is Australia’s largest chain of specialty paint stores, with 130 stores nationwide. Each store is a franchise run independently by the store owner. The franchisor is 3D Paint Store (Holdings) Limited an unlisted public company whose shareholders are the franchisees themselves.

Therefore the national office exists to service the franchisees and to grow the business through continual improvement in the areas of marketing, finance, administration, operations and business strategy. For franchising enquiries click here.

 History

 3D Paint Store (Holdings) Limited began trading as 3D Paint Store in 1979, with the three D’s standing for Dulux, Decorating, Discounts. Originally set up as a buying group of five paint stores in Newcastle (NSW) the company prospered and attracted other stores, with the group growing to 20 stores in 1986. 

The success of 3D accelerated when stores within Queensland, Victoria and Western Australia joined the group in the late 1980s. By 1993 store numbers exceeded 100 and it became obvious that 3D Paint Store was outgrowing a buying group structure and a franchise model was adopted in 1997. At the same time the company strategically aligned itself with Dulux, a partnership that to this day is robust and integral to Inspirations’ reputation as delivering the best quality paint products to both retail and trade customers.

3D became Inspirations Paint & Colour in March 2007, when the first 16 stores adopted an innovative and interactive colour showroom concept, that involves splitting the store into retail and trade areas. The retail showroom features the unique ‘hex wall’ of colour which has removable hexagonal colour blocks that assist the customer in creating the perfect colour palette for them. A strong emphasis on colour advice and access to colour consultants are also corner stones of Inspirations Paint & Colour.