The sight lines of the floor and walls match making the hallway.
Direction of engineered flooring in a long narrow hallway upstairs.
The correct direction for laying hardwood floors.
We have mostly slab foundations in this area and with engineered floors you have more flexibility.
Yet another exception if you have solid wood floors not engineered on a pier and beam foundation then you don t have a lot of choice as far as which direction to run the flooring it would best be run perpendicular to the joists.
Whenever you are placing wood flooring in a hallway or any long and narrow area it should run in the direction away from the doorway.
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.
Running the planks the length of the entire home is one option and very common.
Hallway plank direction as a rule laminate flooring looks best when it runs in the same direction as the long walls in a hallway.
While personal preference is a factor the direction in which you run hardwood flooring boards is governed by visual and structural guidelines.
Uneven walls another important thing to take into account when laying hardwood floors is the possibility that your walls aren t straight.
In some situations the planks are run in the direction of sunlight often the same direction as length of home.