Laminate floor - direction of lay

[redexstyle]

Hi guys.

Going to be installing laminate flooring into our 3rd bedroom/office. Which way would be best to lay?

Black rectangle is the window, blue rectangle is a radiator and the black line is the door.

In the through living room/dining room, it's been laid lengthways to match the light travel direction but not sure if we'd apply the same to the upstairs?

Opinions welcome.

Thank you.

[onomatopoeia]

I've laid a lot of engineered wood flooring in my home (bedroom, study, library, hallway) and I like having the joins running away from the window, so at right angles to the window / radiator wall following the light, like you say you've already done.

My home is a bungalow though, so everything is downstairs.

[Mr Whippy]

[OutInTheShed]

I've got rooms where you look in from the door and look along the planks, and other rooms where you look across the planks.
Not a big deal either way.

Lines parallel to the 'long' axis make the room look longer and narrower allegedly, lines across make it look squarer.
If a wall is at an angle, non-parallel is more obvious than not-quite-90deg.

[reggie747]

For me, at right angles to the window wall...

[blueg33]

Diagonally

[BunkMoreland]

Length of plank to copy longest side of the room. Its not rocket science

[jules_s]

BunkMoreland said:

Length of plank to copy longest side of the room. Its not rocket science

In the opposite direction to the door swing is the correct answer (in your pic)

Many floor layers will want the laminate in the opposite direction of the floorboards