WHAT WOODHAUS DOES
Woodhaus specializes in making wood art + signs.
WOODHAUS MISSION
Woodhaus’ mission is to improve the aesthetic of spaces with artwork made from wood, incorporating designs that are focused on emotional connections with places, interests or moments. This combination breeds art that is meaningful to people and improves their space’s connection with nature.
WOODHAUS ORIGIN
Woodhaus is the result of two friend’s search for a creative outlet and the need to decorate a new apartment. Wanting to display artwork that had personal significance to us, we decided to make our own. Combining our love of design and working with our hands, we started creating pieces that revolved around love of place (like this Minneapolis skyline we created for our apartment back in 2016), our interests and special moments in our lives.
We soon found that others shared our desire for more meaningful art and they commissioned us to produce pieces with personal significance for their own spaces. In 2016, Uptown Woodworks was born and became a legitimate custom art business. Over the next five years, it grew and evolved into its next form, Woodhaus Art + Signs, in 2021. Uptown Woodworks was reimagined and relaunched as Woodhaus Art + Signs with a greater purpose and vision but the same love for creation at its core.
OWNERS
GARRETT
Garrett grew up in Saint Paul where he spent much of his youth asking how the things around him worked. He was especially fixated on paper airplanes, even checking out books from the library to learn how to fly them further than before. An early entrepreneur, you could find him selling lemonade on the corner with his sister or friends on hot summer days. His curiosity and desire to create would lead to the foundation for what is now Uptown Woodworks / Woodhaus Art + Signs. In his spare time, Garrett likes to cook, travel, play hockey and run or bike throughout the city.
Garrett
HARRISON
Harrison called Lake Minnetonka home for 22 years and has always been obsessed with lake life. He grew up loving to play hockey, being outdoors and drawing. With his passion for design, he wanted to be an architect and design energy efficient, rustic houses that used natural elements. The 2008 recession made him change his plans and go into marketing. When he is not at the shop, you can find him out on the lake, cooking, hanging with buddies on a rooftop, being nostalgic about MN or petting a dog.
Harrison
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