Decorating to a championship standard.
Commercial painting and decorating for retail, education, leisure and corporate estates across the UK — planned around your trading hours and finished right first time.
Trusted on site by
- Marks & Spencer
- Sainsbury's
- David Lloyd Leisure
- Amazon
- + UK universities, schools & banks
Big-name clients. Family-run values.
Olympian Decor is a family-owned painting and decorating contractor from Middlesbrough. For more than twenty years we've delivered commercial, retail, public-sector and residential projects across the UK — for some of the most demanding clients in the country.
- One point of contact, start to finish
- Programmes we actually hit
- RAMS and COSHH on every job
- Clean, protected, tidy sites
- Direct or as your finishing trade
- No job too big or too small
Years delivering commercial decorating
Nationwide crews from our Teesside base
Day, night, weekend & holiday working
Sectors, from schools to supermarkets
Sector specialists, not generalists.
Every sector runs differently. We plan each job around how your building actually works.
01 · EducationSchools, colleges & universities
Colour-zoned corridors, classrooms and sports halls, delivered inside the holidays.
02 · RetailRetail & supermarkets
Overnight work for M&S and Sainsbury's estates.
03 · CorporateOffices & banking
Floor-by-floor refurbishments while the business runs.
04 · LeisureLeisure & fitness
Gyms, studios and wet areas for national operators.
05 · ExteriorsExterior & cladding
Façades and steelwork, cleaned and protected.
06 · SpecialistSpecialist coatings
Wipe-clean, anti-bacterial and high-vis systems.
From the Olympic and Commonwealth Games to the UK's best-known buildings.
Peter Richardson started his career as a boxer in the 1980s, competing around the world at the Olympic and Commonwealth Games before turning professional. In the early 2000s he founded Olympian Decor — and brought the same discipline, preparation and respect for the job with him.
That's still how every site runs: prepare properly, show up on time, and don't stop until the finish is right.
Read Peter's storyDiscipline
Programmes planned and hit, day after day.
Preparation
The finish is only as good as the prep underneath.
Respect
For your building, your staff and your customers.
The finish
Snagged with you, handed back spotless.
Five rounds. One finish.
The same process on every job, whether it's one office floor or a national rollout.
Survey
We walk the site, measure, check substrates and talk through how the building is used.
Plan
An itemised quote, a real programme, phasing plan and site-specific RAMS.
Protect
Floors, furniture, IT and fixtures covered; safe zones set up for occupied areas.
Paint
Proper preparation, then the right system applied to spec by an experienced crew.
Hand over
Snag walk-round with you, touch-ups done, area handed back spotless.
How long will it take?
Facilities managers ask us this first. Move the sliders for a rough crew size and programme, then send it over for a proper survey and quotation.
Indicative programme
A rough guide for planning only, based on typical two-coat production rates. Every Olympian Decor quotation is built from a site survey.
Colour that helps a school work.
Most of our gallery is school work — and it's rarely just magnolia. Colour-zoning gives each key stage, department or floor its own identity, so pupils find their way and buildings feel cared for. Tap a zone to see it on site.
The finish speaks for itself.
Quiet, tidy, on time.
Placeholder reviews for this concept — to be replaced with real client feedback.
“The team worked nights for three weeks and we didn't lose a single hour of trading. Store looked brand new on reopening.”
“Twenty-two classrooms, four corridors and the sports hall, all done inside the summer holidays and snagged before INSET day.”
“Organised, tidy and genuinely easy to deal with. Peter's team just get on with it — exactly what you want on a live site.”
Do you work nights and weekends?
Yes. A large share of our commercial work happens out of hours so that stores, offices, clubs and schools can keep running.
Will you work in an occupied building?
Yes. We phase works zone by zone, put up safe barriers, use low-odour products and clean down daily.
Do you provide RAMS?
Every job gets site-specific risk assessments and method statements, plus COSHH information for the products we use.
Where do you work?
We're based in Middlesbrough and work nationwide across England, Scotland and Wales.
Got a project coming up?
Tell us what you're planning. We'll survey, programme and price it properly — and give you a start date we'll keep.