How did it turn out? ---- A couple of solutions with no transitions: 1: Rotate your flooring 90 degrees so that it runs the long ways on the floor plan and START at the Kitchen/DR shared wall and FR/LR shared walls and install FORWARD into the kitchen, so that the majority of your install will be a normal forward install and the DR/LR/Foyer will be a backwards install. OR...... 2. The above would be best but, if you truly want to run it the way you have laid it out then... A) If there is doorway that connects LR and Foyer and doorway that connects LR and DR that I would start in the MIDDLE of LR making sure to measure first so that your end boards aren't slivers and then come around into FR (P100) back towards the Kitchen to fill in the gap and meet up with P10... so that you have an 'ISLAND' of flooring surrounding these wall as long as you only do enough boards a necessary to connect P10 to P100 it should be light enough that you can PUSH or FLOAT the floor 1/16" to 1/2" one way or the other as needed so that P10 and P100 are locking like normal... then complete additional boards in all directions... again when I say 'Island' I mean that you are not installing all the way to the LR outside wall you'll only install ONLY to the doorway to start P100/P10 and the same for when you get into FR you're not going to the outside wall of FR only to installing in FR along the FR/LR wall so that you can meet up with P10 --- once that is done and P10 and P100 are 'locked in' then complete like normal. B) If there is no doorway that connects LR and Foyer or that connect LR and DR (which I would imagine this is not the case) then I would do the same as above but start at the non-doorway wall.

Therefore, the most popular and significant way to run your wood flooring is to... Run it from the front door, straight to the back of the house, perpendicular to the front. You want those boards to look like they are laid they way they are in a bowling alley, all the way into the home through to the back. https://carlaaston.com/designed/which-direction-should-you-run-your-wood-flooring-well https://homeguides.sfgate.com/correct-direction-laying-hardwood-floors-49169.html  The most common way to lay/install hardwood flooring is by aligning the planks parallel to the longest wall or run in the installation. Apart for a few exceptions like sagging joists, this is the preferred direction to lay wood floors because it provides the best result aesthetically. In most homes this means running the planks lengthwise straight away from your front door all the way to the back. The one exception is if your sub-floor is sagging between the joists – in which case you’ll want to run the planks across the flooring joists to avoid any problems. Try to avoid changing directions in your floor in different rooms, and do your best to plan the exact layout prior to beginning your installation. https://www.ambientbp.com/blog/direction-lay-hardwood-flooring I will be laying mine horizontally because my entry goes from the living room on the left thru the entry down the hall to the laundry room and that is the longest run. I cannot tell where your front door is located, but I would run the flooring vertically in the first picture because that is the longest "wall".

It's like having your own personal time machine bar in your basement!! Definitely to be appreciated by a certain generation, or lovers of that era . . . My aunt and uncle had a Tiki bar and game room in the basement. I always wondered if the people who bought the house from my late uncle kept it as a time capsule. It was a fairly tasteful version of that kitschy vibe. It was never meant to be a serious room . . . we had lots of fun in there back in the day . . . Do they still sell wagon wheel light fixtures and barrel keg chairs? One can't go halfway . . .

I know what you mean. You fixate on something, I do, and it drives you nuts. My installer put one piece in front of my kitchen sink that looks like I spilled something. However, the last photo you show, the two planks are not identical. Only you and I would notice the similarity. Keep in mind you will have furniture, maybe a rug, on it. Let it go. (And call me if you can't.)