Which direction should I lay laminate flooring in a cornered layout?
Following the longest walls can create awkward 45-degree angles in connecting hallways, while trying to map out board placement across an entire floor at once feels nearly impossible. This complexity leaves people resorting to guessing from a single room edge or struggling to figure out where to use separate transitions.
What people tried
Every workaround mentioned in the threads below. We haven’t tested any of them — and nobody here is claiming they worked.
Found another way around this?
Share your steps and trade-offs so fellow engineers don't have to reinvent the wheel. No account required.
- 1Making transitions and keeping different directions for different areasDid this help you?
- 2starting the installation in the hallway and running boards lengthwise as far as possible into the bedroomsDid this help you?
- 3finding the center of the room or hallway and seeing how the boards fall before deciding on placementDid this help you?
In their words
Unedited, grouped by where they were said, most upvoted first within each place, each linked to the thread it came from.
“Hi. I have this cornered layout, which direction should I follow for laminated planks? If I do the longest walls I end with 45 angles in the hall which looks odd, should I make transitions and keep different directions?”source ↗
“i am planning to do the whole second floor, but it just seems impossible to consider all the room at once for the placement of the boards.”source ↗
“do i just go fuck it and start with a full board at edge of one of the room then hope for the best?”source ↗
Where this came up
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