Categories: ReColour Stories

Customers from Community RePaint Wirral share their DIY projects to get your creative juices flowing. What is next on your DIY list?

1 – Upcycling a pallet –  Sue picked up a pallet to add a splash of colour to her garden.

2 – Redecorate your bathroom – David used Gorgeous Grey from our ReColour range. 

3 – Children’s bedroom – A special mum picked up paint from Community RePaint Wirral for her children’s bedroom. Watch the video here. 

4 – A splash of pastel – Vicki updated these dining room chairs into a rainbow of pastel colours.

5 – Quirky Furniture upcycling – Jennifer upcycled her drawers into a VW Campervan for a friend.

If you want to see more DIY projects using paint around the home, visit the Community RePaint Wirral Facebook page. 

Dowlais Engine House decide on grey emulsion for their redecoration project with fantastic results.

Dowlais Engine House, home to Pant & Dowlais Boys and Girls Club, is a charitable youth organisation in Merthyr Tydfil. On deciding to redecorate, they purchased paint from Community RePaint Blaenau Gwent, a ReColour stockist. They used a combination of Brilliant White and Gorgeous Grey to paint their two-tone look.

If you would like ReColour for your own paint project, which is low cost and environmentally-friendly, you can find out more here.

On Saturday 22nd October, Star Throwers organised a paint makeover for a support centre for cancer patients. Star Throwers aim was to provide patients with a warm, friendly and uplifting environment away from the hospital.

A huge host of different organisations pledged their support to help update the support centre, which included signage, plumbing, alarms, and volunteers. In addition, Community RePaint supplied ReColour for the paint makeover.

The photos below show volunteers helping out with the paint makeover on the day.

For more information on ordering ReColour for your paint project, click here.

Community RePaint Cheshire run by Changing Lives Together chose to paint a feature wall at their scheme. They decided on ReColour emulsion in Gilbert Green, and it has really brightened up the space. We think it looks great!

If you would like to find out more about ReColour, click here.

Shambala, Boomtown and Latitude all use ReColour paint at their festivals. Shambala Festival is well known for its commitment to environmental sustainability and its colourful creations, Boomtown for its intricate stages and street designs and Latitude for its range of music, theatre, dance and film.

ReColour is great for painting backdrops, fencing and props, available in Matt and Silk emulsion. All festivals were extremely happy with the paint, and boasted the value of money the paint offers.

If your festival or event uses paint, why not try ReColour? Firstly it diverts reusable paint from the waste stream. Secondly, it provides the community with good quality and low-cost paint. Thirdly, ReColour is available in a range of neutral and bold shades. Get in touch with us to find out more, or visit our ReColour page.

Emmaus Mossley is a new ReColour stockist, selling a range of colours in matt and silk emulsion.

The secondhand superstore not only generates an income to help sustain the charity, but it also offers work and training opportunities to formerly homeless individuals. They partner with our remanufacturing centres in Cambridgeshire and on the Wirral to stock ReColour paint.

You can read more about the paint that is now stocked on the Emmaus Mossley website here.

ReciproCity Wirral, one of our ReColour manufacturing centres, receive regular paint orders (see photo below). The paint orders are then delivered by courier to our customers.

We make ReColour using innovative technology to filter, treat and blend leftover paint to create a range of beautiful emulsions, masonry and chalk paints. They are great quality, affordable and environmentally friendly too!

Our ReColour paint is £1.20 a litre for our coloured Matt emulsion. However, our Brilliant White and Magnolia Matt emulsion is only £1 a litre. For the full range of colours and to find out how to place an order click here.

ROAR giver their barn a paint makeover for their new rescue ponies. ROAR are a not for profit, recovery housing project who offer a safe, secure and supportive environment for those who may have suffered from mental health difficulties, addiction issues or have been homeless.

The charity rescued three badly neglected ponies. They hope to provide equine psychotherapy in the future to individuals staying at the housing project.

Barn the ponies would be staying in required a revamp, so ROAR purchased Brilliant White and Gorgeous Grey from Community RePaint Wirral. With the help of volunteers, they painted and transformed the stables.

Stables before and after the paint makeover

 If you need paint for your own project, we can help. Find out more here.