Linking rows

Hi everyone, i have an design idea but not quite sure how to implement it, and would appreciate the help.
I need to add link to entire rows, including all the content inside (text and pictures) and a hover effect to the same row like background color changes from white to light gray or something like that. The links would lead to different pages but the hover
effect would stay the same. I would love to do this with SiteOrigin CSS Visual Editor, but open to other ideas.