Hardwood direction can come down to personal choice.
Direction of engineered flooring in a long narrow hallway upstairs.
The correct direction for laying hardwood floors.
While personal preference is a factor the direction in which you run hardwood flooring boards is governed by visual and structural guidelines.
Flooring in long narrow rooms or hallways should be laid outward from the doorway so it doesn t create a choppy appearance and it s also much easier for installation.
The sight lines of the floor and walls match making the hallway.
Uneven walls another important thing to take into account when laying hardwood floors is the possibility that your walls aren t straight.
The direction you choose needs to transition when laying hardwood flooring throughout your home you need to take special care in choosing the direction that the wood will be placed.
In some situations the planks are run in the direction of sunlight often the same direction as length of home.
We have mostly slab foundations in this area and with engineered floors you have more flexibility.
This is an option for single rooms or where only a few rooms are receiving the flooring.
Running the planks the length of the entire home is one option and very common.