Hi all,
I have two rooms connected by a small hall and need advice on which direction to lay click-lock wood flooring in the rooms and hall.
The first room (on the left) is about square (11x15).
The second room (on the right) is rectangular (23x10).
The two rooms are connected by the hall (4x5) running between the lower right corner of the first (square) room and the left of the rectangular room at about its middle.
If you're having trouble imagining it as far as how the rooms are connected, imagine looking down from above on the rooms and four square quadrants. The first (essentially square) room takes up the upper left quadrant and the second (rectangular) room running vertically takes up the upper and lower right quadrants. The hall connects the lower right corner of the first room and the left side of the second room at about its middle.
The question is if I should start in the hall and work out into the two rooms. And the other bigger question is should the planks be going left to right (horizontal when looking down on it in the direction of the hall from either room) or vertically (in the direction of the longest dimension of the rectangle.
Thanks for any help.

Bob

If it helps, looking down on the floors they form sort of a shape of a "four", with first room being the upper left of the "four", the rectangular room being the vertical long leg of the "four" and the small 4x5 hall being the horizontal piece of the "four" connecting the left and right parts of the "four". Do I lay the floor horizontally through the hall into the two rooms ?

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What I forgot to say is you enter via a door in the lowest part of the rectangular room and see the hall a ways into the room exiting left into the smaller square first room on your left. In other words as you enter the rectangular room from the bottom of the "four" you are looking into the longest dimension of the rectangular room.

If you lay the floor perpendicular to this long dimension (e.g. horizontally into the hall and into the room on the left) it might insure you have a nice smooth connection between the two rooms through the hall and be easier to lay through the hall. But wouldn't it look more natural and pleasing for flooring planks to run parallel to the longest dimension of the rectangular room and in the direction you are looking as you enter the room ? Does it look "jarring" to enter a rectangular room and see the planks running not in the direction you are entering, but instead transverse to the long dimension ?

On the other hand if the planks run parallel with the long (23 foot) dimension of the rectangular room (23 x 10), does this make the room look too long and skinny ? Would running the planks crossways in a rectangular room make it look a little wider/bigger (its a sitting/living area) and the smaller room is a bedroom in a small guest house if that matters.

Forget the A, B, Cs. My geometric layout of them when composing the post didn't survive when it was uploaded. Sorry.

Bob

Since the layout seems square-ish, I would personally do it diagonally at 45 degrees, which looks great IMOHO. You can make a little jig with scrap wood that has a guide at the correct angle so you can use a jig saw or circular saw to make the 45 deg cuts.

You could also make it run long ways in the big room and flow it continuously to the rest of the house from there.

I prefer the continuous look to transition moldings for the click-lock. Since you can only really cut the click-lock stuff where a wall is or where a molding is it's hard to change directions from north-south to east-west.