Salisbury Designs

Salisbury Designs Arvada, CO based business specializing in wall designs, custom builds + finishing work. I love making your home more like you one wall or project at a time.

Visit our website or message me today about any ideas you have! We want to help you make your home feel even more like you by finding the perfect custom sign, shelf, furniture or home design all in one place, with you in mind. We can make something completely new & customized to you or bring something old back to life. Our services include >>

+ handmade custom signs or shelves at SalisburyDesigns

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+ creating a custom feature wall in your own home through trim, paint, shiplap, brick, etc

+ hand drawn wall murals, menus or wedding signage

+ refurnished furniture for sale on Facebook Marketplace or rehabbing your own old furniture

08/21/2026

The laundry folding table I made for someone l know is attached + installed in this lovely rental suite! The wood matches all the shelves & colors in the space and fits perfectly. Now the tenant has places to put all her laundry things with the adjustable shelf, can store baskets underneath + can fold on the table. It’s so functional & beautiful since they walk into this space from the entrance and it’s a freestanding piece, so can easily be moved around whenever they need as well.

08/20/2026

Since we moved a tv from a wall in our basement (& added a bigger one to our movie room), I knew I was going to have to redo it since the old green paint design was meant to go around the tv. I decided to just make it all one color + use that for the rest of the basement as well so I was deciding between a bright beige or more moody brown to tie into the dark wood pub feel on the other side of the room. Once I saw this Valspar color Milk Chocolate I knew it was the right amount of “dark”, but still light & warm enough for a basement. I decided to trim out the window + more of the wall so the two square designs on either side didn’t make the couch feel so off balance anymore. I used the cedar lath pieces I took down from the couch wall & just stated making connected rectangle patterns to make the wall look more interesting and connected. Then I caulked + painted it all to make it look like one design and it turned out so great! It definitely matches the English pub feel of the rest of the room & the color feels so cozy. I can’t wait to keep painting the rest of the basement to all match now 🤎

Working on redoing a wall in my basement + it’s coming together even better than I thought since I started without a pla...
08/19/2026

Working on redoing a wall in my basement + it’s coming together even better than I thought since I started without a plan…

08/18/2026

I finished this laundry folding table for a friend’s rental property by edge banding the plywood edges, sanding + staining it all in a beautiful Minwax® Ebony stain that’s like a lighter black with grey undertones. It matches the shelves they already have in that room, so it’ll all flow together & I sealed the top with a water based Polycrylic sealant. Now it looks like one solid piece with the cool chunky legs and adjustable shelf in the cubby space to hold whatever they need in their laundry room. I still need to attach it all together in their home to make sure it’s all level & secure so I’ll be doing that soon!

08/13/2026

It’s back to building because I talked about making this for someone I know a while ago, so I’m testing out new questionnaires + contracts on her to see how it goes. But here is the body of her new laundry folding table 🧺 I’ll be adding a shelf in the cubby for detergent & things and laundry baskets can go underneath the table. The table top is a 6ft long piece of birch butcher block from Home Depot, the cubby is made from 3/4in sanded plywood cut into a box with a 2x3 platform underneath and the legs are 2x3’s wrapped in mitered 3/4in plywood to match with a 1x3 attached between them for support and to screw into the top. It’ll all get sanded, edge banded + stained the same soon, so check back to see it finished. It feels good to make something pretty and custom with my own hands again 🛠️

My kids are back in school today + I understand the irony that I spent all summer redoing my basement just to rearrange ...
08/12/2026

My kids are back in school today + I understand the irony that I spent all summer redoing my basement just to rearrange it, but the hard work was already done. After I “finished” it, we all knew the game table needed to be closer to the “pub” part + the work out area needed to be bigger, so I switched those around which just required unscrewing & rescrewing some things in. I made the bench freestanding so we could move it around, added the workout cabinet lower for my son to use easier & made the rest of the room a “sitting room” situation to hang out with friends. This really all started because the smaller tv my son used for gaming died suddenly after 10 years, so instead of replacing it we bought a huge 75in (yes that sounds insane) tv to hang in the movie room instead of using a projector so he can use it to play video games as well. It’s a much better use of the space I spent all summer making better, so now I’m very happy with the layout! Long rooms are really hard to utilize well, so making different separate spaces helps use it best. I’ll be redoing the old tv wall + fireplace soon of course, but I just wanted to make sure that’s where we want everything first. I’m also back to making a new project for someone I know, so stay tuned for all that to come…

Here are some stills from our summer basement refresh/update using all materials we already had, including breaking apar...
07/31/2026

Here are some stills from our summer basement refresh/update using all materials we already had, including breaking apart a big closet build that didn’t get used (into a guest closet, workout cabinet + patio coffee table). I’m very happy with the better use of space in our basement, the practicality of it all & how much better it all flows together now too. It’s been a fun, slow summer project that has helped me enjoy building more again.

07/29/2026

When we started the summer our basement was fine, but the bar was too big & we never used it, so now we have a smaller bar for more space to hang out, work out, play darts and games. I love how much bigger + more connected everything feels with the new library walls, hidden door & same dark green throughout the whole space. I just drilled holes for hinges in the door I cut down for the “workout cabinet”, hung it on the cabinet box & added trim to finish it out. It doesn’t have a handle because you can open it from the bottom + it will just look like a nice cabinet on the wall if we move the workout stuff wherever we have people over. I love the feeling of the whole space & how every single built thing in there was remade from old materials from something else!

07/27/2026

I think we’ve had about 4 different versions of chicken coop doors since I made this coop over 3 years ago, so I’m hoping this one is the winner! Doors usually slide up or sideways one way, so since this one slides open both sides I had to recut a new opening for the door with a jigsaw from 3/4in plywood leftover from our basement bar + repaint it in white to match the coop. I just rehung the same hinges & slide lock to be able to still open the whole wall to get inside the coop, but the door slides perfectly, is solar powered + even has a remote to use from the house if we need to. And of course the chickens seem happy with it too 🥰🐓

07/22/2026

I’m very close to finished with our whole basement refresh because I finished making this “workout cabinet” that just needs the door now. I made the cabinet box from old 3/4in plywood from the old bar by screwing it together with pocket holes & adding 1x4 piece supports across the top and bottom also attached with pocket holes. I screwed the wood supports straight into studs & anchors so it could hold all the heavy weights on the wall. The supports help keep the square shape but then I could also hide them by nailing a wood back on top of them + adding hangers to the top for hanging all the workout attachments. I decided to hang the cabinet in the same spot as our old dart board & leave some room on top for yoga mats. The thin wood veneer & door came from the closet build I took apart, so I just need to add the cabinet door next to hide all the workout stuff when we want it put away, but it’s already looking + functioning good!

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