Hardwood direction can come down to personal choice.
Direction of engineered flooring in a long narrow hallway upstairs.
Running the planks the length of the entire home is one option and very common.
This is an option for single rooms or where only a few rooms are receiving the flooring.
In some situations the planks are run in the direction of sunlight often the same direction as length of home.
Hallway plank direction as a rule laminate flooring looks best when it runs in the same direction as the long walls in a hallway.
We have mostly slab foundations in this area and with engineered floors you have more flexibility.
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.
Uneven walls another important thing to take into account when laying hardwood floors is the possibility that your walls aren t straight.
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.
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.
While personal preference is a factor the direction in which you run hardwood flooring boards is governed by visual and structural guidelines.