How do decide where to begin a hardwood floor in a kitchen?
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You should start in the middle.
I'm not sure but my husband who owns a construction company put ours in himself and just started at a wall and worked his way across. I think he alternated the lengths of boards(so that 2 longs/2shorts were not next to each other) but I wasn't paying much attention. When he laid the heated ceramic floor in our master bath he started in the middle I don't know why
the best way is to try figure out your focal point. where is your eye going to be drawn to first? i would start there. unless you're trying for easy way to install, then i would do it from the door way to the next door way.
Start at one wall or the other. Placing the boards lengthwise to the main entryway will make the room look longer, some say.
Be aware that a kitchen floor sees lots of water in its lifetime. Make sure that you get the right flooring for the water. Water seeping through boards will cause rot, mold, and the like. Most kitchen floors are linoleum, tile and the like for this reason. (Tiled floors are started in the center of the room. Wooden floors are not.)
A wood floor must start at a wall, it can not start in the middle as you would to install tile. Use a long wall, take a chalk line so you can get a straight line to begin. Most walls and cabinets are not straight. You can cover the edge with baseboard or shoe molding if the edge of the flooring can not fit flush against the entire wall.
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