Running Wood Floors Two Directions

Sightlines running your hardwood planks from your main entrance toward the opposite wall will help simplify the sightline and makes the room appear less busy.

Running wood floors two directions. If you re laying your new floor in an older home that has a plywood sub floor the first thing to consider is the direction of the floor joists that support it. For a general rule if its nail down hardwood flooring you actually should run it cross the length of your floor joist. Another thing there are stairs as well so to add 1 2 underlayment will bring my floor high over the nosing and railing nosing. Sometimes the layout has to do with how you would look at the room or where the main focus is in room not where the entrance is.

The traditional way to run a hardwood floor whether you are working with a nailed down or floating format is to have the planks running parallel with the longest most visible wall in the room. In these instances the hardwood floor planks are usually laid in parallel to the longest run or wall in the installation. A way to avoid transitions or to create a nice impactful visual statement consider laying your wood floors in a diagonal or herringbone pattern throughout your house. In this room below i ran the long side of the tile parallel to the wood floor and entrance to the room because of the direction one would be looking at the open kitchen from the living room and how one would be using the kitchen.

How to lay hardwood floor in a contrasting direction. I have a two rooms in a open concept front part of my house. The joists in both of there room are in two directions. We have mostly slab foundations in this area and with engineered floors you have more flexibility.

So picking which way to run the hardwood is difficult. This will make it appear narrower than if you install it in the other direction. 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. When placing wood floors in multiple rooms and a connecting hallway the boards should all be directed away from the main entrance to the hall and adjoining rooms should continue.

If there is a doorway at the end of the hall that separates the spaces you can choose to install wood running in a different. When you are choosing hardwood flooring for a long hallway make sure that you do not install it running parallel to the room s length.