Laminate in New Albany, OH

New Albany is an old foundation with a very new town on top of it. Nobel Landon and William Yantis founded it in 1837 and it incorporated in 1856, but it had only 414 residents as recently as 1980. Rapid growth began in the 1990s, driven by Les Wexner's investment, and the 2020 census counted 10,825 people — a 40.3% rise on 2010.

The numbers that matter for a flooring conversation are the median household income of $203,194 and the median home value of $494,600. Houses at that level are specified rather than furnished, and the expectation is that the flooring will be too. Wider planks, better underlayment, stairs finished properly, transitions that are designed rather than picked off a shelf. That suits how we work, because the parts we insist on — subfloor preparation, individually measured stairs, a proper cushion — are exactly the parts that show at this end of the market.

Most of the housing is recent, which means engineered joists or slab and open-plan layouts. Flatness is the thing to get right: a continuous plank run across a large open floor reveals every deviation in the deck below, and on a wide-plank specification it shows more, not less, because a wider board bridges further. That check happens before the material is ordered.

The Licking County side of New Albany carries the Intel semiconductor site — nearly 1,000 acres, announced in 2022, with construction ongoing at a reduced pace. The plants have been pushed back, with the first factory now expected around 2030 and the second in 2031 or later, so the immediate effect locally has been residential building in anticipation rather than the workforce itself. Facebook and Google data centers are already operating in the area.

We are around thirty minutes east, and the in-home appointment is complimentary with no obligation. Samples come to you, which matters more in rooms with this much natural light than it does anywhere else.