I’m getting a Quick Step wood laminate put in to an apartment (floor plan in picture). I had wanted the floor to flow throughout (minus the bathroom), and my plan had to be to make the planks run lengthways, parallel to the right-side of the hallway, and extend on from there (such that they’d also run horizontal in the kitchen/living room/bedroom 2). As you can see, the left-side of the hallway is orientated differently to the right-side. This means, in this area, the planks won’t be parallel to the walls and will instead run diagonally. I’m okay with this. However, I’m not sure what to do with bedroom 1. Am I better off continuing the floor in the same way and having the planks flow at an angle throughout the room, or am I better off putting a transition at the door and having the planks in this room run in a different direction to the rest of the apartment (that is, parallel to the walls in the bedroom)? Having never fitted a floor before, I’m not sure what would be the conventional/typical way to do this, and if one way would look much better than the other.Essentially, the trade-off is: floor going at a slightly odd angle, or having a transition (a single transition in the whole apartment, other than in the bathroom where the floor changes to tiles anyway). For what it’s worth, I intend on putting a double bed in there with the headboard against the left side wall, so a good amount of the floor will likely be hidden under that and a rug, but I’d still rather not create an eye-sore if possible. Any advice (or even just personal preferences for what you’d do in my situation) would be much appreciated.
>>2889901Make the transition in the hallway exactly between bedroom 1 and 2. In the hallway you always want it parallel (or perpendicular) to the walls or it will look weird. This lets you do bedroom 1 as you should and there’s only a diagonal edge in bedroom 2 which is mostly hidden by the storage anyway. The transition is easily hidden by a floor mat or something, or you can put a rail across to hide the cut ends
>>2889904Thanks for this. I had thought about this, and I think it would have been the best solution in a regular wood floor case.However, with the quick step laminate, each piece has a male and female connecting edge, which click into place with the pieces on either side and or on either end. So, if I had the transition in the hallway, I wouldn’t be able to connect the differently oriented sections. They’d need the transition profile piece between them (which is similar to what would go under the door between hallway and bedroom 1, if I chose to have the transition). This piece causes a raised bump in the floor, which is fine for under a doorway I guess (not ideal), but would be quite annoying in the middle of a hallway (probably a trip hazard, not look great, get in the way vacuuming etc.)
>>2889918You don’t really need the piece if you put a floor mat or something. But even if you do you’ll never notice it again after a week. If there is no height difference you can use a really flat one, all it does is hide the cut edges
I wouldn't be overly concerned with the flooring not being perpendicular in that little section at the end of the hallway.
>>2889901always towards the windowtransition between bedroom1 and the hallway
