We would like to put flooring in the dining room, living room, foyer and continue into the family room.
It seems like I should start at the proposed control line and lay flooring in both directions from the control line in order to get the floor to match up around the wide doorways in the living room. I would then like to continue the flooring into the family room. We would like use Bruce engineered narrow (~3 inch) flooring which would be stapled to the subfooring which is 3/4 inch plywood over 1/2 inch plywood. The flooring will run perpendicular to the floor joists.

My questions are;
1. Is this the best way to deal with the doorways in the living room?
2. Will we need an expansion joint or transition joint between the foyer and family room since the width of the flooring from the control line to the outside of the family room will approach 30 feet?

Any comments will be greatly appreciated.
Dennis

1. yes
2.dont need it and wouldnt put one in there. you will hate it.

In this case you dont need that control line , but if you've never done it b4 I would say start there just so you know you're straight there. I thought you were going to have to meet up flooring from 2 different rooms. They sell splines which is a tongue that you nail to the groove so you can go backwards with the flooring. If it were me I would start on the back family rm wall and move forward and then shoot straight across the dining rm, spline it and go backwards, I call it back filling, You have less closeout walls this way.

That is a very interesting post joegriz. I absolutely agree with your ideas!