You're putting wood in the wrong place. What wood? Do the foyer, guest room......hallway. Match the laundry to the other tile. Or show a picture that makes sense ?

Yeah it may not make sense but this is our preference. This is an old house and we do not have old tile to match the foyer for the laundry. I would prefer wood there with a drip pain for the washer. Btw you can see the living room and hallway in one view as the “hallway” does not have a wall with the foyer. It’s open.

Follow the direction of your existing wood floors. It’s not an ideal look when you have wood floors going in different directions, imo.

Can you show us where the doors are on each wall. It is hard to visualize how you access each room.

My guts feel right now is that if the laundry has its own room with a door closed and there is no way to walk directly from the leaving room to the hallway, I would put the wood floor the same direction as the hallway. I don't know the dimension of your hallway but you might end-up with many partial planks to fit the angles when you get close to the corners.

I also believe that your brain might want to walk the direction the planks are laid out if the space is long and narrow. It think the brain would not have problem with a 0 or 90 or 45 degrees but it might have trouble to deal with other odd angles.

I included an actual picture. It’s not a true hallway in the traditional sense. Background on top is laundry, right is guest room. Not pictured at the bottom is entry to the bathroom. Left opens to foyer.

You are right Stax . I forgot about the direction of the floor joists.

Why is that so Stax? Aren't they in such a small section just nailed to the sub floor anyway...Educate us please! Thanks!