Pam and I are both pretty close to the same age, and even though we may not have shared the same birth year, we are only 55 days apart in age. We were both even born at the same hospital in La Crosse, Wi. I like to say, "She was going out of the delivery room, and I was coming in." Pam's aunt and my mother even have the same name, of 'Karn.'
Amazingly, we both found out that we once lived very close to one another at the south end of La Crosse in the late 60's, near the intersection of East Ave S, Bennette St. and Losey Blvd S. Pamela lived just a few short blocks away from my family's home when we were both still pretty young kids. I didn't know that my future wife was actually living so close to me at such a young age, or I would have walked or crawled on over to see her. "ha,ha".
Life moved on, and decades rolled by. Pamela left La Crosse for Menomonie in 1992, and she finally settled permanently in Eau Claire, Wi. I left La Crosse in 1990 to partner up with my oldest brother to help manage and run a long-term and successful 82-unit building complex business in beautiful Miami, Florida, from 1990 to 2007.
Looking back, we both graduated high school in the same week, month, and year our own respective high school class of '85. She graduated from Logan High, and I graduated from Central High School, both located in La Crosse, Wi. We were separated by nearly 35 years of time before we finally first met each other in the summer of 2019.
We each happened to get to know each other by sheer chance, nearly 4 years after both of our foregoing divorces became finalized in the same year of 2015. Our paths didn't cross until that special warm, soft summer day that I built up the courage to call her after we were texting each other on our phones on July 30, 2019. About that time, we noticed that each other's profiles looked great, and we just seemed to match pretty well at the heart and soul level.
At first, Facebook was to be recommending we both become friends, which peaked each other's mutual interests. She said, "We then decided the other was cute." And the next thing you know is, I told Pam barely three minutes into our first conversation while talking on our phones together was, I said, "Well... I think we can now consider us as officially dating, and we can now consider us going out with each other exclusively."
We may have both been way out of practice for flirting and dating other people in general, but it all came back to us and filled in again nicely once we met each other. Afterall, both of us at only 52 years young, still shared the zest for life, not to mention maintaining the continued love and support we felt for our families, good friends, and our animals we each had waiting for us at home.
It is Sunday, August 18, 2019 and the day we both decided our first date would be to coordinate together at the Holmen Kornfest Auto Show in Holmen, Wi. Like in other years past, I was driving my 1926 Chevy Landua Sedan there in order to enter it in the awards show given at the end. I was definitely feeling lucky the whole day, since I knew she was coming there to meet me at the show.
At about 3:15 in the afternoon, all of a sudden, she walked straight up behind me while I was facing ahead, tapped me on my shoulder and said, "I heard them call your name over the loudspeaker and saw you walk up to get your car trophy, so I knew just where to follow you back here where you are standing. By the way, you look a lot taller and muscular than I expected." Our friendship must have grown even stronger since then, and we decided to marry on July 30, 2022.
Our wedding took place at the Concordia Ballroom, in La Crosse, Wi in 2022, exactly three years to the day since we first talked on the phone on July 30, 2019. Naturally, we had to
join our "families" including 1 dog, 3 cats and 2 fish along with lot of extra stuff in tow. Pam has a separate job of working from home and is Ron's #1 cheerleader and part-time business sense refiner. (the title she came up with that sounded more exciting than office manager).
When we are not working diligently from home, we generally love to go on motorcycle rides to our favorite scenic Driftless Area destinations, go hiking or camping if we can, but most of all, after a hard day's work, we enjoy time together and spending it at our home caring for our "mini zoo."
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Pre-customed hardwood tables for you from the Driftless Area, brought to you by Hanson's Hardwood Designs, of La Crosse.
Come with us to explore the exclusive world of our hand brushed single slabs with mica powder colors added, on their way to becoming famous in the Midwest. All of our living room tables here were created by hand and are now available for you to accentuate your home with. (Subject to current availability on website)
We can all appreciate traditional natural wood beauty when tables are used to adorn our homes, and some of the most perfectly thick and finished wide centerpiece living room hardwood tabletops to come out of Wisconsin are now here.
Each and every wide single slab tabletop made at Hanson's Hardwood Designs will compliment your home in some of the most efficient and elegant ways possible. Each graceful hardwood table piece will become your favorite work of art in your home.
These tables are made to demonstrate form and function properly, while preserving the very best details of its wood grain in them. Time, attention, devotion, and emotion are needed to make them look fabulous in your home.
Our beautiful, handcrafted tables are created from scratch to showcase the table's extreme beauty and simplicity. All of these handcrafted tables are genuinely made right from the beautiful hardwood trees from our Driftless Area.
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You can thoroughly enjoy your new coffee table experience by purchasing one or more tables from Hanson's Hardwood Designs website, where you can discover a bit of the fascinating history behind each table the Driftless Area has to offer, from one of the four states that accompany it where ancient landscapes and unique geological formations have shaped the growth of hardwood trees. They are then selected to make our magnificent hardwood tables that everyone needs for their homes.
These are the hardwood trees that help us create these 100% natural live edge hardwood tables for you to enjoy daily in your home. Many times, we create our tables from trees that are over a century old, providing not only stunning background material for single slab tables, but they also tell the story of resilience against environmental challenges trees must face, living out their daily lives until old, standing alone in the seemingly inhospitable wilderness.
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Driftless areas can preserve ancient landscapes, unspoiled countryside, and conserve its historical geological formations of ridges and swales providing valuable insights into the region's ecological past. The unique evolutionary and genetic histories developed characteristically older, locally more adaptive gene pools in some of our hardwood tree species and are tied to long-term persistence in parts of the Driftless Area. After thousands of years since the last ice age left, our Driftless Area forests eventually cleared the way for these beautifully detailed and fine grade wood tables. We make only single slab hardwood tables built for your living room area, individually created for you exclusively by Hanson's Hardwood Designs LLC, of La Crosse, Wi.
Did you know that all of our ash trees across the Driftless Area and beyond are rapidly disappearing and dying off due to the invasive emerald ash borer beetle? This situation makes the wood particularly rare and valuable, when in good condition, especially since the trees used for these elegant tabletops are often 100 years or older but are still in perfect form, adding to their historical significance, each having specific individual character that comes through in the table's expansive wood grain.
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The uniqueness of our region's Driftless Area supports the area's diverse woodlands and provides the raw, beautiful, and unique hardwood that is at the cornerstone of our own special local business, and we don't hesitate to create the more traditional looking natural table. Our tables are typically made from Ash, Cherry, Hackberry, Walnut, American Elm, or White Oak. We also have an assortment of high-quality American Chestnut wall clocks.
Although there are many variations of species of hardwood trees that grow in the Driftless Area, only a few of the most valuable, flawless, and suitable furniture quality tree slabs are chosen to make our tables from. We search all around for the veteran or ancient trees that are in the 3rd, or final stage of their lives in order to create a more stable tabletop due to its quality of wood grain contained it.
Most of these large diameter trees that help to make our wide tabletops unique are less abundant now, but they still have peculiar ecological interactions with nature, tying them to the Driftless Area, which are distinctive when compared with other regions due to local topography, microclimates, and soil conditions that stem from the area's unglaciated history. Its landscape is characterized by beautiful steep hills, forested ridges, deeply carved valleys, and karst geology with spring-fed waterfalls and cold-water running trout streams.
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The long process involved in searching for, sourcing, and harvesting the high-quality tree specimens used in our tabletops significantly impacts their cost for making them. Premium woods like ash and walnut can sometimes be classified as expensive furniture wood due to their rarity and exceptional pure qualities desired by woodworkers. Live edge tabletops that are crafted and sculpted from a single slab of hardwood normally require more specialized small equipment while employing one's specific delicate and advanced woodworking skills to bring the tabletop to a look of perfection to the eyes with an impeccable finish to match.
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After accumulating over 40 years of valuable career painting and real estate building repair prowess during my career, I turned my attention to my longstanding vision of creating a natural slab tabletop that makes the perfect living room table. I knew that people could find these tables of ours very useful in their homes because they are unusual, functional, and are modern looking.
About 6 years ago, I realized that by carefully mixing and matching high quality tiny glass mica powder color schemes into the freshly finished topcoats of our tabletops, they begin to look like a unified piece and prove to be very aesthetically pleasing to the eyes. This is the perfect type of high-quality polished live edge hardwood table look we've been after and trying to find, or one that invokes a sense of a 3-D when looking at it.
Together, Pam and I discovered that people don't necessarily have easy information or access to seek out and make a clear choice to own some of the highest of quality genuine handcrafted live edge hardwood tables around. People value spending time in their homes more than ever these days to de-stress. They've been finding the need to improve, rearrange, and complete their special space near their T.V. differently from what was there before. Owning very good quality tables that can last forever has been and will continue to be important to our customers.
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It is a complete process from start to finish when making a world-class tabletop at Hanson's.
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The time needed and the labor-intensive process of finding these quality slabs of hardwood and cutting, drying it properly then finally working it into an heirloom piece contributes to the overall cost of these expensive tables and proves to be more difficult as time goes by because of the scarcity of large old trees needed to make them.
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The perfect live edge slab finishing process itself involves tons of time sanding and proper drying time between the many layers of polyurethane or wood oil topcoats put on them with careful application methods and years of careful and painstaking painting experience to achieve our flawless results. When compared to other types of expensive wooden furniture, live edge tables stand out for the distinctive features they represent and are able put you in a better mood by looking at them, even if you don't happen to be in one at all.
Often, these fascinating and creative hardwood tables can cost hundreds of dollars because they serve as a main centerpiece in living rooms, making them the primary focal point in it. They never miss the chance to impress the best of friends, family, and other guests. Our thick profile handcrafted live edge or straight edge slabs offer both functionality and artistic appeal, making them worth the initial investment and well worth it in the long run.
For when it comes to our incredible hardwood tables; they always greatly deliver and excel in quality, longevity, and giving uniqueness for your home.
All of our hardwood tables are an absolute witness to nature's slow renewability process. Most furniture grade hardwood species used specifically for our tabletops can take decades or centuries to mature, so our immediate supply of tables cannot be rapidly expanded. We keep less than 50 tabletops of your choosing in stock at any one time. These tables are forest to forever quality with usefulness that lasts. We won't make a table we wouldn't put in our own living room at home.
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Testimonials that build trust:
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Our friends Steve and Pamela from southeastern Wisconsin found our business on Google Search, or google.com. They wrote:
"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!"
Steve and Pamela found our ash hardwood tables to be so beautiful and useful in their home, they purchased their 3rd large live edge ash table from Hanson's Hardwood Designs to replace their old bar top and make it more accommodating for entertaining a number of guests on their main level. On their first visit to our furniture store in La Crosse in the summer of 2023, they bought two of our ash hardwood tables and just loved all three of the ones they eventually purchased!
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La Crosse's own local radio station crew stopped by to say, Hello!
Classic Hits 94.7 radio station was at Hanson's Hardwood Designs LLC on Oct. 25, 2024.
"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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Live edge tables bring the connection to nature right to the heart of your home. This growing live edge table popularity is rooted in its direct connection to nature. It contains a rustic modern appeal, has a one-of-a-kind character, great quality heirloom appeal, and has the most natural look available in tables.
Every curve, crack and grain in it tells a story. We are here to listen to your needs pertaining to just how well our tables could honestly fit into your decor at home. We offer free consultation to help you confidently decide on just the perfect fit and finish for one of our great quality hardwood tables.
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Picasso once said, "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
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Michelangelo said, "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery; it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."
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ART GALLERY PICTURES AND TABLE INFORMATION BELOW
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Hanson's Hardwood Table Designs Business of La Crosse, Wi 54601.
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Enjoy our finished slabs mother nature created, reserved until now. Completely modern, bold, and stylish hardwood tables that are finely made here!Each handmade, heart hub live edge hardwood table is designed special for your space by Hanson's Hardwood Designs. We have a unique history in La Crosse, and we always include a story behind the tabletop sold because it is personally sourced from beautiful areas of the Driftless. The main feature of our business of tables is from hardwood trees with rich histories. Heritage brands of rustic tables such as ours, have found a growing cachet among young and older customers alike.
The larger diameter logs make better quality wood tables for our beautiful center core slabs and are generally more valuable due to their potential to produce wider tables instead of tables made wide with multiple boards glued together side by side like most tables sold. That's not what you want because our tables require specializes table making skills utilizing one single slab.
Only the older trees that we continue to search for definitely tend to have a more consistent, attractive, and more durable grain pattern that you would want in a table piece for your beautiful home. These rare hardwood finds of ours will result in a more stable hardwood table for you. Old growth wood for tabletops proves to have better stability, durability and longevity. As we follow our business perspective of making tabletops for your living room from one single slab of hardwood. But these prime tree slabs are much harder to find these days without rot, when compared to younger trees that are more susceptible to rotten wood and are never used in our table business. Older trees typically also have a higher proportion of great quality heartwood, which is more resistant to decay, insect damage and warping and used for our fine furniture making.
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We can knowledgeably guide you carefully. listening and helping you along the process of selection to achieve your best decision for the reason for choosing one of our hardwood tables for your space. The magnificent table you choose will completely represent your climax foundational focal point of your living area. Keeping in mind the perfect height, width, length and thickness that is an important choice for overall visual effect. We will take care of the rest of the deal and supply you a great looking quality table.
Pam and I will personally walk you through all the steps and help you with all the pain points in order to help you to be able to meet all your goals and expectations with a table and get big results with it. Choosing a table for your personal decor is about putting your needs first, then comes your table piece chosen.
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George Nakashima said, "The work is not about me, it's about the tree."
If it is one thing I've learned from my many years of woodworking experience is to not even to begin to force any slab of wood against its own will. I will try to make your new slab tabletop even more natural looking than it was from the start. We love to over deliver on your new table. I will show and keep all of its curves as close to original as possible. A woodworker must know and operate within the limits of what the wood itself will do for the customer as a table and how he appreciates the finished piece. Really, the raw, unworked hardwood slab is there to make even more beautiful. At the moment I start examining the raw piece of wood begins the process of incorporating and listening to the story that is already in the wood grain, and I believe it makes a better tabletop.
The tree weathered decades, if not, a century or more of growth to become a table for someone. We both have to agree from the start of the table project on what benefit will come from properly working the wood piece to perfection and what it can do for someone to own in their home.
Nakashima also said, "Trees yearn to live again to serve man."
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Buy our tables for the look and feel, quality, usefulness, and its sturdiness, but nothing should deny you from enjoying your beautiful home without a great table such as ours. We will set your living room dynamics free so you can feel just as free as nature.
There is a huge part of America that is drastically underserved by not yet discovering our new brand of fine handcrafted hardwood tables. Accept no imitations and buy no imposters or three-piece epoxy river tables out there. Get the real deal, real 100% finished single slab ultra finished living room hardwood tables to replace your old tables you still have now.
Tree history, or the events a tree can face significantly influences the character of hardwood tree tabletops we create in several ways. The chemical composition of wood changes in nature as it ages so that it eventually produces the kind of beautiful, mature, curved, live edge hardwood slabs we've made for customers. True live edge artisans like me certainly prefer to remove the bark early on and work with the solid outer grain of the wood. Our choice one-piece slabs are chosen for their beauty; helping to make the superior seamless quality tabletops you can always expect at Hanson's Hardwood Designs LLC.
We hope you take this chance to learn all about our hardwood tables and to see all of the wonderful designs created in hardwoods and showcased for your enjoyment in our 2 photo galleries of tabletops available for purchase. These handcrafted tables are made for adding value to any room you put them in.
Our handcrafted tables are made from the finest aged hardwoods in our fabulous Driftless Area.
Each piece tells a story within its rings, reflecting the unique character of the furniture quality hardwood slabs used and the superior craftsmanship that brings the table to life.
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Why our handmade table brand can become more valuable than the price you pay for it
at Hanson's Hardwood Designs LLC?
The value of our tables lies in the buyer's ability to admire and enjoy the beauty regularly, rather than looking at one every day that is cheaply made. It never stops looking good and it can increase in value over time. The raw elegance of each finished tabletop piece we create from hardwood slabs is definitely unique and hard to find. The hardwood stock that makes all of our high-end tables will last a lifetime and beyond, since they are extremely durable and long-lasting
Our customers can rely on the story and the information behind the quality table when purchased to make it a special experience for you. If, being able to meet and greet the maker of the special handcrafted table is important, then here is where you'll find your next new hardwood slab table. Customers will like the idea of the craftsman and craftsmanship being visible to the public.
You will be able to get a whole new vision of your living room other than what was there before our tables came along, and our beautiful tables will lift your favorite space to a whole new level.
Our business concept is simply that customers are encouraged to select their favorite tabletops out of the examples, and they are made ready for your choice of black steel, aluminum, or other factory-made legs ordered that we would put on for free, with a tabletop purchase from us.
"We always remember a brand is a promise, a great brand is a promise well kept."
We believe that consistency is everything at Hanson's Hardwood Designs LLC."
We will search the Driftless Area far and wide to bring back our perfectly wide and aged center slabs to create our handcrafted hardwood tables that bring long-lasting beauty.
We provide for you the quality living room tables that will soon become your favorite hardwood tables. The beauty is in its simplicity of design at Hanson's.
Ash hardwood has been a popular choice for creating fine furniture. It's very durable and has an extensive history within furniture making. Ash furniture can be slightly more expensive than furniture made from other types of wood. Because of its durability, one needs to be prepared to spend a bit more to get this quality. Our tabletops
Ash hardwood has been a popular choice for creating fine furniture. It's very durable and has an extensive history within furniture making. Ash furniture can be slightly more expensive than furniture made from other types of wood. Because of its durability, one needs to be prepared to spend a bit more to get this quality. Our tabletops come with our unmatched professional finishes applied with extreme skill that you won't find anywhere else searching for niche formal living room tables. Find one here today!
Right now, five species of Ash trees are critically endangered. Unfortunately, North American Ash tree populations are dwindling. Our handcrafted Ash hardwood pieces resist moisture very well and can hold up to heavy use due to their shock resistance. Ash wood furniture pieces are aesthetically pleasing and a great investment for any ho
Right now, five species of Ash trees are critically endangered. Unfortunately, North American Ash tree populations are dwindling. Our handcrafted Ash hardwood pieces resist moisture very well and can hold up to heavy use due to their shock resistance. Ash wood furniture pieces are aesthetically pleasing and a great investment for any home. Explore and browse our full range of high-quality hardwood tabletops and find the perfect piece for your home or office space.
We have clearly marked inclusive and flat price structure for all our hardwood tabletops, but legs are extra and separate. You must pay for the legs and tabletop chosen ahead of time, so we have time to install legs of your choice on it for you. Stainless steel screws and strong steel inserts used is our standard for all legs or base ins
We have clearly marked inclusive and flat price structure for all our hardwood tabletops, but legs are extra and separate. You must pay for the legs and tabletop chosen ahead of time, so we have time to install legs of your choice on it for you. Stainless steel screws and strong steel inserts used is our standard for all legs or base installations. All of our leg installations are completely free when purchasing a tabletop from us.
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Legs or bases are needed to complete your table to perfection!
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The price of table bases or legs we will install run about $200 to around $500 and on up. Bases or stands are not included in the price of the tabletop, which is a separate purchase entirely. No upcharges for legs other than factory prices paid. We do not make our own legs or bases out of wood at all- we install them after you choose them. We can help you order them for your new tabletop and we usually get them delivered in about 2 weeks or less. We can only install legs purchased from reputable dealers that can safely and fully support the weight of our handcrafted tabletops because some of the larger ones can be quite heavy.
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Our largest handcrafted live edge tabletops start at $895 and top out at $2195 each +tax, not including purchase of legs. Hardwood tabletops are each priced and sold separately based on such factors as size and weight, beauty, species type, details, and wood figurations.
Large Round coffee tables or end tables; 3-4" thick 29" (average widest
diameter) solid ash. $815 -$875+tax not including cost of legs purchased.
Medium to small living room tables for entryway, or lamp tables for bedrooms or wherever; Starting at $195 - $895 +tax not including legs purchased.
World famous original rare chestnut wood American Chestnut wall clocks and benches (some with worm holes, not still alive) This extremely good plank clock behind an All-American made quartz timing movement is positioned with aluminum hands pointing to thick stainless-steel numbers on the front clock face. These are very accurate clocks that are within 6 seconds of the atomic clock per year. Very limited supplies of genuine American chestnut clocks,
then they are gone forever. $225+tax. (limited number of 18 currently in stock).
In interior design, worm holes can be appreciated for the sense of history and character they add to wooden items.
Handcrafted finished pinewood front porch Welcome signs, all with interchangeable square block, tongue and groove letters. 7 extra letters included of your choosing to form other words of your choosing -$135 +tax. (6 in stock with letters plus any 7 extra of your choice all for $135 +tax).
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We prefer that all of our customers arrange their own method of pick up for purchases at our point of business at 718 13th St. S. La Crosse, Wi. Please let us help you load your new table directly to your vehicle. We recommend purchases made for your new tables to be picked up although delivery might be able to be arranged.
If you do
We prefer that all of our customers arrange their own method of pick up for purchases at our point of business at 718 13th St. S. La Crosse, Wi. Please let us help you load your new table directly to your vehicle. We recommend purchases made for your new tables to be picked up although delivery might be able to be arranged.
If you do not have access to a pickup for transporting your new table, we have the option for delivery at a nominal fee. Delivery cost and availability is dependent on distance.
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. Buying cheaply made furniture may save you money upfront, but I'm pretty sure 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 for a table that can be easily maintained by simply periodically wiping it down with a damp micro-fiber cotton cloth. Truly nothing beats the versatility of wooden furniture and one from Hanson's can be very rewarding.
We always try to keep a complete record of the whereabouts of the origination of our Driftless Area tables created here and keep a record of most details gathered about the information accurate of the hardwood trees used in our business.
We would love to answer any and all questions about this wonderful table business of ours or to assist you in picking out your new hardwood table here. We would also love for you to include seeing the Hanson's Hardwood Designs LLC hardwood table business of La Crosse, Wisconsin designed for your home on your next trip to La Crosse.
Interested in one of our handcrafted tables? Just drop us a line anytime and we will get back to you. If you look like a good fit for one of our tables in your home or office, then we can move fast to make you happy with your future purchases.
Sincerely our best regards and thank you, from Pam and Ron Hanson.
Hanson's Hardwood Designs LLC>
La Crosse, Wi. (608) 304-5475.
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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