Which Direction Should You Run Your Wood Flooring?

A reader recently asked me the following question and I thought my answer might be helpful to others, too.

My response:
Wood flooring, in its most prized form, comes in long boards. In fact, when you look at wood flooring products, they will give you specs on the range of the length of the boards. The cheaper the flooring, the shorter the boards. So… you want your flooring to have long boards so they’ll look as expensive and high quality as possible.

Therefore, the most popular and significant way to run your wood flooring is to…

Run it from the front door, straight to the back of the house, perpendicular to the front. You want those boards to look like they are laid they way they are in a bowling alley, all the way into the home through to the back.

That’s right: Stay away from turning your wood flooring in different directions in different rooms in an attempt to create interest. It makes a house look chopped up, and it costs more money to install—particularly so in smaller and in open plan homes.

Installing your floor this way is a general rule and common practice in installations. However…

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