We both grew up in La Crosse WI, and moved away in our early 20's, each married other spouses and lived in different cities far from each other for many years.
Way back in the 90's, we each left our hometown of La Crosse to live our separate lives away not knowing even if or when we'd eventually meet. She first went to Menomonie and then settled in Eau Claire, Wi, and I moved to Miami, Fl, for the next 16 years. We both ultimately moved back to La Crosse to share a home in 2021 in order to be closer to our respective parents, still living in La Crosse. Both of us never met prior to 2019, even though we had some similar friends and attended similar events, early on.
We both graduated from the same class, but in different schools entirely, from Logan and at Central High Schools in La Crosse. We were both in 'The Class of 1985.' But our paths never crossed until a special summer day on July 30, 2019.
Initially, Facebook suggested that we become friends, which peaked each other's mutual interest. "We then decided the other was cute." As it turned out we figured that it was an odd way to meet, but we shared many things in common, like the love for our family, good friends, and our animals. On August 18, 2019 we decided to meet up in person at the Holmen Kornfest Auto Show. That day we were at the car show together, I got two types of "trophies," I said. One was for my 1926 Chevy Landau Sedan and the other, was her... Our friendship grew much stronger, and we married on July 30, 2022, exactly three years to the day, after we first talked on the phone.
We joined our "families" including 1 dog, 3 cats and 2 fish and a lot of extra stuff. Pam has a separate job of working from home and is Ron's #1 cheerleader and business refiner of our table making business. (the title she came up with that sounded more exciting than office manager). When we are not working from home, we love to go on motorcycle rides to our favorite destinations, go hiking or camping but most of all, after a hard day's work we enjoy time together and spending it at home caring for our "mini zoo".
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The best type of living room tables are genuine hardwood tables
Driftless areas can preserve ancient landscapes and geological history, providing valuable insights into the region's past. The forests eventually cleared the way for the beautiful ash trees used by Hanson's Hardwood Designs LLC. The tables come from the special sort of trees in the Driftless Area that are dying off due to the invasive emerald ash borer beetle. This situation makes the wood particularly rare and valuable, especially since the trees used for the tables are often 100 years or older, adding to their historical significance and individual character.
The emerald ash borer beetle's impact on the ash trees in the region underscores the importance preserving and utilizing the beautiful hardwood tables they may turn into.
It is predicted more than 99% of all green, white and black ash trees will die from the infestation from the The Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) that was first detected in 2008 and has been confirmed in all 72 counties in Wisconsin.
Ash mortality is already high in Southern Wisconsin, exceeding 90%. With not many left around today, these trees will eventually die off completely.
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Our beautiful American Chestnut wood clocks with long-lasting quartz timing movements are already made ready to hang on your wall. How about an outdoor water-resistant porch welcome sign? On these, you can interchange any or all of the letters to form any words you want it to read. 7 extra letters are included.
Our handcrafted chestnut formal wall clocks and a few of our chestnut benches are made from the trees that are descendants from original chestnut trees that were reporte planted in the 1860's. Our hardwood clocks originated from and are exact clones from trees of the original 40 acres reportedly planted by one of two sons of a retired Civil War general after the war that were located near La Crosse, Wi.
The largest of all the chestnut trees in the US grew best in their native zones, like in USDA zones 4-9 near the Appalachian Mountains, loving their hot, humid summers. They grew very large, with some reaching over 100 feet tall with trunk diameters at their base from about 10 or more feet across. They were a dominate species to about one-quarter or more of all trees in the Appalachian Mountains and eastern forests, from Maine down to Mississippi. By the 1950's, those massive trees were gone forever.
All of the American Chestnut trees disappeared from the Eastern part of the U.S. and by the 1950's, about 4 billion or more of our Nation's trees died from chestnut blight, a fungal disease accidentally introduced to the United States from Asia in a shipment in the early 1900's. Our own special small business feels lucky to craft our exquisite chestnut clocks and simple chestnut benches from this highly prized wood for woodworkers.
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Your own special and loved traditional home or log cabin needs a proper matching hardwood table adornment to always make it feel like your own, and each table art piece does have our amazing smooth tricolored matrix of brilliant glass mica powder bits permanently embedded deep within its finished surface. Its easy-smooth polyurethane topcoats seem to light up with combined with sunlight glancing through the windows of your home. These tables gracefully blend seamlessly into your home decor. Bring the scenery in, as nature calculated it correctly.
These magnificent tables often tell their story of both the forest and the human hands that shaped them into the tables they are today. Forests seem to have incredible resilience and regeneration capabilities, so they are sustainably sourced. You can also choose your own specialty sets of steel or cast aluminum legs from a choice of different companies. We will carefully install your choice of legs for free, to outfit your table properly as you purchase it.
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The Driftless Area supports the region's diverse woodlands and provides the raw, beautiful, and unique wood that is at the cornerstone of our local business of making traditional hardwood tables from ash, black cherry, hackberry, walnut American elm, or white oak you can choose from.
Buying cheaply made temporary furniture and getting it fast is probably something you should avoid at any cost. Our handcrafted hardwood tables greatly excel in fit, finish, and shine every time.
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Did you know that wood from trees is the single rarest material in the universe? There could be entire planets out there made of gold and diamonds, but as far as we know, Earth is the only planet in the universe that would have wood. Wood as we know it, only exists on Earth.
Wood comes from complex plant life itself, so by carefully and purposefully researching the type of tree species, location and environment from which it lived and exploring a tree in relation to other trees living nearby it, combined with all of its events and disturbances, or when the area had field clearings by farmers- is usually a good indicator of the quality of trees located there.
Wisconsin's forests have shifted dramatically to less diversity and more simple stands of Aspen, paper birch and Red Maple. In the late 1800s and early 1900's, the United States experienced a rapid deforestation driven by the industrial revolution and a national attitude that viewed forest clearing as a sign of progress. Old-growth forests in Wisconsin used to be mostly giant stands of Eastern Pine, Hemlock and Cedar, long ago.
There is less than 1% of our original virgin (frontier forests) still intact and remaining in Wisconsin and less than 4% of the existing original trees still standing in the U.S. that it once had growing at the turn of the century. Modern industrialized logging and clearing practices began in the 1800s. A majority of old-growth, unlogged forests are gone forever, never to return again. Large parts of southern Wisconsin are now characterized by real estate subdivisions that seem to be a never-ending and increasing threat to forests, particularly in the Driftless area which has experienced considerable growth in housing developments and shopping centers in the last 35 years.
Modern practices of various replanting methods were scant or non-existent at that time and almost all of the native timberland trees were cut down for a lumber source. The Native Americans in tribes that lived here long before us used to set regular intentional wildfires to manage their environments in order to promote desirable ecosystems that benefitted native plants and animals throughout the forested lands of their home reservation territories.
The population and distribution of old-growth tree species in Wisconsin's forests were pretty stable from about 2000 years ago all the way up until the 1800's. Wisconsin's lumber era started in earnest in the 1850's with the harvesting of "Big Trees" first in 1892, that eventually took over 4 billion board feet of lumber from our forests. We have better sustainable harvesting and recovery practices with a clearer understanding of ecological processes, now in place. In the mid-20th century forest cover began to increase again with improved forest ecology management practices.
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It's a table made out of only thick hardwood and metal legs, some fasteners, and a number of stainless-steel machine screws for the legs. It's all in the special unique processes undertaken and details put into a table that counts.
These stunning tabletops- with their organic shaped edges and their high gloss multi-layered durable polyurethane finishes you can feel and touch as they act like a functional piece of art for your home.
We make that pure hardwood table that you have been looking for with that special customized look. Your new hardwood table will still look great 100 years from now, for certainty.
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The quality-made tables at Hanson's are a wonderful testament created to inspire you to dream to great heights while persuading you to get your inventiveness spirit flowing through your mind and space around you. Imagine what a difference a table makes in a room, unlike any table you've ever seen before.
The legend of nature reserved until now, reveals herself for you
Each piece of furniture from Hanson's Hardwood Designs has a unique story behind it, as the wood used is sourced from trees with rich histories. Each table is crafted with care and attention to details, aiming to preserve the natural beauty and the story of the wood. The result is a table with unique twisted curved gnarls that are especially eye-catching; It almost feels like both nature and design had a collaboration. All of our centerpiece tables capture and announce the very scope of the buyer's particular unique personality, just at the moment one sees it.
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You can buy tables in stores made by manufacturers using synthetic engineered wood products like glued particle board cheap ones with plywood covered in layers of wood veneers and laminates that are mass produced without any character. The whole table is made to look good for a while, but eventually it will completely lose the value you paid for it and look shabby in the long run.
We only make tables with smooth rich, floor finish quality multi-coated sanded polyurethane finishes holding internal depth to your eyes that our luxury-minded clients come to know and prefer every time when buying hardwood tables.
Our tables are made to be created to contain great grain definition, clarity and character resultant in
a combination of beauty and function that helps our tables last a lifetime. It's what to put in your living room. It's more convenient to get quality handcrafted hardwood tables already made for you customed.
You can't automate craftsmanship in the way our slabs are personally chosen and handcrafted, because we customize them each in their own unique way, taking abundant working hours and a few days or more, in the process to complete.
We can and will help you decide on the right type of hardwood table when considering the size and style and height of your preference with a finish so good that future generations will enjoy it just as much as you did.
We would love to carefully walk you through the daunting decision-making process of selecting a great table and help you through all the pain points in order to help you decide on exactly the right kind of table. We have a pretty good idea about the ones we have, confident in the way it will look. Choosing a table is all about you, and making a table is all that we do.
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When time yearns for a new table to improve your whereabouts and you are on the hunt for fancy furniture- it's good to know what goes into a table. The hardwood trees we use to make our tables are super durable and naturally very long-lasting containing state-of-the-art finishes, distinct textures, colors and grains which make them a valuable commodity for the long run.
Venturing into the ownership realm of experiencing handmade luxury woodworking in your home, you might wonder what makes a certain table command a certain price? A good table can take a great deal of time to make by hand and with using small tools. About only ten tables on average are built in one year in our woodshop. You will find that we are very competitive with price at this niche of the market for these types of luxury tables, so we try sell only the best tables made.
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Most of our tables we create are known for their curved geometrics with mica powder designs and are meant to serve a certain aesthetic appeal to the needs of a long-term buyer in mind. Those past and future customers of ours can expect to keep their hardwood table for years. Or a table just for those customers who want to represent pure unmatched quality in their homes.
The individual look of every one of our tables illustrate all of the wonderful personal artistry contained in them, which is also a wood lover's dream to have in their living room. See all of their natural edges, rich grains in their glossy or matte finishes that can really showcase the curves and contours.
Come discover for yourself our delicate hardwood wizardly touch behind our handmade furniture. These trendy, curvy live edge mica powder-infused and expertly polished hardwood tables will surely become a cherished legacy in your care, through the ages of your life.
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Having an extreme sense of natural balance and proportion, these tables are completely stunning to look at in the most eye-catching ways. Just one look at them seems to last for hours. Those unique twisted slabs are so creatively carved, it almost feels like both nature and design had a collaboration up front.
All of our centerpiece tables can capture and announce the very scope and importance of the buyer's particular unique personality spontaneously, from the moment one sees it, from any angle one looks.
Make your living room just as unique, bold and distinctive as you are. Provide your home, place of business or cabin with our classic heirloom tables made to our exemplary high standards. We always focus our sales on honesty, integrity and transparency in all transactions made.
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At Hanson's, we don't always make big tables, but big is what speaks to us. Small tables are beautiful in their own way, but big is when a slab took over 100 years to grow, and there lies a different responsibility to follow there with both weight and gravity.
There is a seriousness of importance of natural design. George Nakashima said, "The work is not about me, it's about the tree." Personally, I don't force any table design in any profound ways. It's already there to make more beautiful. The movement in the grain helps me incorporate listening to the story that's already in the wood. Nakashima also said, "Trees yearn to live again to serve man." I think about that line every time I start to build. Hanson's Hardwood Design wants to build a hardwood table worthy of the time that tree took to grow.
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Featured testimonials that build trust:
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Steve and Pamela of Wisconsin said, "We bought 2 live edge tables from Hanson Hardwoods. The tables are inspiring artworks that we use every day for office and home. Ron and Pam were great to work with. They patiently helped us through each step- selecting the right tables, finding and mounting the legs we wanted. Everything was finished perfectly. We highly recommend Hanson Hardwoods!"
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Steve and Pamela found our hardwood tables to be so delightful that they bought one more table from us to use in their lovely home. One, as a coffee table in their main living room, the 2nd is an inspiring crafting table downstairs for use in his newly minted retirement years, and the third live edge table as a bar top table used for entertaining their guests.
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Classic Hits 94.7 radio station was at Hanson's Hardwood Designs LLC on Oct. 25, 2024.
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WOW! Hey there, it's Ken Cooper, what an amazing discovery the other day. At Hanson's Hardwood Designs, every piece of hardwood and live edge furniture is a labor of love from Ron. He's a true artisan making handcrafted tables, bars and benches. I don't know how he does it but Ron's work is elegant and rustic at the same time. You can see that he uses all kinds of hardwoods so, really, whatever you can imagine, Ron can probably bring it to life. Search Hanson's Hardwood Designs with online and get ready to be blown away. Then give Ron a call and talk wood.
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We can order your standard or fancy table legs at the time of purchase. We will install your custom legs securely on the underside of your new table. This way, you are able to browse the choices of table legs available on the internet to match a certain style all your own for the table and legs when we beautifully put it all together as a complete hardwood table for you to use, as soon as you get one!
At Hanson's Hardwood Designs LLC, we strive to provide our customers with furniture that is both stylish and functional. We believe that everyone deserves to have a beautiful home, and we want to help make that a reality.
We will search far and wide in order to hand select all of our hard-to-find center slabs to create our genuine original tables that will go well in your home, business or center.
We provide the living room or entryway tables of your dreams, with excellent handcrafted hardwood tables for your home or business.
Basic information and cost estimates for a new hardwood table with legs or bases
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The leg costs must be added to the price of the live edge or smooth edge slabs themselves because we order them from separate companies that we can recommend. Table bases usually run from about $20
Basic information and cost estimates for a new hardwood table with legs or bases
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The leg costs must be added to the price of the live edge or smooth edge slabs themselves because we order them from separate companies that we can recommend. Table bases usually run from about $200 to around $450, depending on the manufacturer and specific style. We will be providing and installing only legs that can fully support the weight of our tabletops.
No costs for leg installations when purchasing our tables directly. We will nicely install them ourselves for the table you purchase from us.
Large type A 2" thick 55"- 63" x 30" (average width and height) some with decorative epoxy inlays live edge green ash tabletops. Starting at $1195 - $2195+tax.
Large round cookies 3" thick 30" (average diameter) round solid ash tables with metal bases. $795-$895.+tax.
Smaller type B 2' thick, from 2' to over 4' in length and about 16" wide or over and benches. Starting at $195 - $995+tax.
American Chestnut wall clocks with quality American made Quartz movements and thick stainless-steel numbers on clock face. $195+tax.
Handcrafted pinewood front porch Welcome signs all with interchangeable block letters. 7 extra letters included of your choosing to form other words of your choosing $135+tax.
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Since normally we are unable to ship hardwood tables due to the high shipping costs involved and possible damage and other factors. We may be willing to offer our tables delivered right to you for a small fee. Delivery may be possible within a designated distance with arrangements first and agreed upon.
If you compare the price to the num
Since normally we are unable to ship hardwood tables due to the high shipping costs involved and possible damage and other factors. We may be willing to offer our tables delivered right to you for a small fee. Delivery may be possible within a designated distance with arrangements first and agreed upon.
If you compare the price to the number of years a Hanson's hardwood table piece is likely to remain in use, the value behind our hardwood furniture wins every time. We've been fortunate to be innately inspired to put together the right combination of elements, materials and art into a magnificent table. Buying cheaply made furniture may save you money upfront, but it will cost you more in the long run.
Our real hardwood tables are a great value for your home, absolutely worthy of your investment and can be easily maintained by simply periodically wiping them down with a damp cloth and never needs refinishing. Truly nothing beats the versatility of wooden furniture and one from Hanson's can be very rewarding.
Thank you, very much for your time.
Best regards, Pam and Ron Hanson.
La Crosse, Wi. (608) 304-5475.
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Hi, Welcome to Hanson's Hardwood Designs. What type of table do you need? Coffee, sofa, bench or entry? We have them all. Text, call or message us.
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