The only problem is, it won't work! While wearing vertical stripes may make a person appear taller, trying the same on your floor simply won't help to make your room look any bigger. Unfortunately, this one has no more merit than an "old wives tale". It is common to see the laminate or wood flooring boards running with the direction of the longest walls in a room.
Think of hallway flooring for a good example. The length of the flooring board will more often than not, run with the length of the room. And in some cases, there is actually a very good reason for this. Solid wood flooring, expands dominantly across the grain. So running the width of a plank across the narrow part of any room will naturally reduce the amount of expansion required. As solid wood flooring was the only wood floor type available up until the 's almost every wood floor plank laid would have run with the length of a room.
Today we have options such as laminate flooring and engineered wood floors , which don't expand dominantly in any one direction so there really is no need to stick with any one direction. However, the most natural-looking direction to lay a wood floor will always be along the length of a room and its all down to the history and natural characteristics of solid wood flooring.
When deciding which direction to lay laminate flooring, in conclusion, it really is quite simple. Chose which one you like the best. Ignore other opinions as the one that matters more to you, is often the best choice.
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Scratch Resistant. Another serious consideration is what type of flooring to use in a large high traffic area vs a smaller room.
Laminates are almost always floating and will invariably sound hollow and creak as the temperature changes. For instances, walking across a cold laminate floor first thing in the morning can be like entering a haunted house at a fun park! Seriously investigate the advantages of a better quality engineered product. I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet, but I've always heard it is better to install laminate flooring perpendicular to the floor joists in the room.
Often the subfloor can be slightly unlevel due to high points running along the joists and low points halfway between the joists.
If your laminate flooring is parallel to the joists, it will simply follow the dips and peaks of the subfloor. However, if it is perpendicular to the joists it will be more likely to span any dips and appear more level. So my advice is to lay the flooring perpendicular to the joists in the room and hallway, and if that means having it run in different directions for the two, just cover the space in between up with a transition strip in the doorway, like a t-moulding :.
The instructions for the last type of laminate flooring I installed actually recommended not selecting the direction based on the longer dimenension of the room, but based on how much light is coming in from each wall, and to select it so the planks ran perpendicular to the wall with the most light.
If you're going to break the floor and rotate it at the hallway, I'd say fine, just install a transition, and if you're going to add it to any additional rooms in the future, consider rotating them relative to the hallway, too, so all of the transitions are the same.
Snap a few boards together, then a second set, and take a look at how they look placed next to each other where you enter the hallway -- you'll want to see it with the room lighting to see how it looks.
If you didn't want to break it, and with all other considerations being equal, I'd not look at your problem as two smaller rectangles, but as two sets of walls I learned that you should install hardwood flooring with the long edge parallel to the long dimension of the space it's being installed in. I expect laminate flooring would be the same. This would be for the whole house, not just one room. With a longer hallway I would also consider how square the hall is.
If it is out a couple of inches over a long span, and you run the boards along the wall, one side of the hall is going to have boards that get thinner or wider. In this case I would personally run it across the hall. I'm a fan of running the boards separate directions in the living room to the hall.
If that is your plan, I would start on the right wall of the large room and work to the left. This way you would make sure you have a full width board at the door entrance, and if there is a thinner board it is on the outside wall.
Then you can butt your hall pieces up against it and run them the length of the hall. This assumes your hall is square. You can run Laminante anyway you wish but running it the longest way of the room results in less wast. While there are a lot of opinions on the "proper direction" for laying laminate, I think the best advice is to buy 2 or 3 boxes of the one you are interested in they should be returnable.
Connect them and place them in the room s in different directions and at different places - especially where light enters and where the floor will adjoin with other flooring. Do this at different times of the day, under different lighting conditions, etc. It's your floor so you should be happy with the way it. I agree that running parallel to the longest wall is the best installation method. This will make the room look larger as well.
Its funny that laminate gets bashed for being cheap flooring and the answer is engineered? I have used both and the laminate held up much better. You cant leave standing water on it but with two kids and a dog I had no issues when using the laminate. I did have a great deal of scratches in the engineered when I used that. Given the choice I would say laminate or solid wood. I will not use engineered again. I agree the easiest way to install would be parallel to the longest wall - less cuts. However your room looks like a narrow rectangle and with furniture placement, the eye would like to see the install running perpendicular to the long side of the rectangle room.
That way the install would be parallel down the hallway - it's okay if it looks narrow. Then should you decide to extend the flooring into adjoining rooms, the floor would be installed in one direction throughout. From a design standpoint the parallel installation along the longest wall would draw the eye down the planks and make the room seem narrower than what it is. Just my two cents. By running boards perpendicular in halls, the boards are cut to stagger joints which make them have a tendency to buckle and separate due to ther short length.
This is especially at problem in doorways. Run it lengthwise down the hall and the same direction in the living room at the end. That way you can do it without using a transition between the two. Rooms that are seperated by a door can be run any direction because you'll used a transiton there.
Another option is laying the flooring based on the most common entrance. If there are multiple doors, laying the flooring the easiest way to install is another great option. Sometimes, that means laying the laminate flooring to make the room look bigger; other times, you may want to keep the installation easy. If you want to install laminate flooring in your home, you have a few things to consider. On the other hand, when you lay laminate flooring, the lines can affect how the room looks.
If you want to make a room look larger, there are a few things you need to consider. If you want to make a room look longer, you should lay the laminate flooring from front to back. You could say this is vertical, but the flooring will still lay horizontally. This orientation can be especially useful if you want to put flooring in a hallway; it also works well if a room is wider than it is long. You can run the laminate flooring from the main entrance, and you can fill the space with more flooring; then, you can enjoy the clean lines you get from the arrangement.
You can lay the flooring so that it extends side to side, and it can create the illusion of a wider room. If you want to emphasize how wide your kitchen or living room is, a horizontal pattern can work well. It may seem counterintuitive, but horizontal laminate flooring can make a room look even larger than it already is.
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