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A covered pavilion with a brick fireplace and built-in grill island beside a paver patio
Unilock
Authorized Contractor
About us

We build in the town we grew up in.

Traditions Landscape Group is a family-owned design-build company. John and Christi Richardson own it together, grew up in New Albany, still live there, and are raising four children in the same community we work in. We design and build paver patios, outdoor kitchens, fire features, pavilions and the planting and lighting around them, across New Albany, Westerville, Gahanna, Powell, Blacklick and the rest of Central Ohio.

John takes a concierge approach, which mostly means you deal with John. He walks the property with you, talks budget before anyone draws, plans the schedule and stays with the job through construction and the final walkthrough. We are an Authorized Unilock Contractor, fully licensed and insured, and the base under a patio gets the same attention as the stone on top of it.

An outdoor kitchen with a stainless grill and granite counters under a cedar pavilion
A white pergola over a raised paver patio with sitting walls and hydrangeas below
A square paver fire pit set into a patio with sitting walls and a capped pillar
Our values

Built the way we would build it at our own house.

Family-owned, and local

John and Christi grew up in New Albany and still live, work and raise their four children here. The people who design your project are the ones you will run into at the grocery store, which is a useful thing for a contractor to have on the line.

One person, start to finish

Our approach is deliberately concierge. John guides every project personally through design consultation, budget, planning and construction, so you are never handed between salesperson, designer and crew, and never left explaining your project twice.

Built to last an Ohio winter

As an Authorized Unilock Contractor we build with materials chosen for freeze and thaw, on the base depth and drainage the job actually needs. The parts you never see are the reason the parts you do see are still flat in fifteen years.

John and Christi Richardson with their four children
The owners

A husband-and-wife business.

John guides every project himself, from the first walk of the property through design, budget and construction. Christi runs the business alongside him. There is no salesperson in between, and no handing you off once the work starts.

John Richardson, owner of Traditions Landscape Group

John Richardson

OwnerAuthorized Unilock Contractor

John grew up in New Albany and has built his business in the same community he lives in. He takes a concierge approach to every project, personally guiding clients through design, budget, planning and construction rather than handing them off. If your patio is being built, John has been on the site.

John and Christi Richardson, owners of Traditions Landscape Group

Christi Richardson

Co-Owner

Christi runs the business alongside John. Between them they raise four children in New Albany, and the same standard they would want at their own house is the one applied to yours.

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