ᐅ How should wood-look tiles be installed – horizontally or vertically?

Hello everyone,
how would you lay the tiles (wood look, 30x120cm (12x48 inches))? Across or along the windows?
The tiler suggests laying them across because of the expansion joints (cement screed), while the floor installer recommends laying them along the windows to avoid glare, which is also common practice with parquet and laminate floors.
The expansion joint in the kitchen and living room could be better concealed by laying the tiles across.
Additionally, the tiler advises a maximum grout offset of 20cm (8 inches) because all tiles are basically slightly uneven.

What do the experts say?

Hello .. living room and kitchen crosswise. Hallway is a good question .. from the entrance it then looks a bit unusual. The other three rooms are somewhat secondary. Normally, you install something like this in a continuous pattern and laying system. That way, it doesn’t matter how *crooked* the tiles are. With this length, no matter what, it always looks bad. Best regards

a) Do not change direction between rooms
b) Along the light – so lengthwise
c) Usually following the room – so lengthwise

(lengthwise means from “top” to “bottom” on your plan -> | )

Usually, the short sides face the light. Hallways result from the layout direction of the rooms.

Whoever pays gets to decide. So you can do it however you like.

Overrated point, in my opinion. There is no right or wrong.
I would also place it "lengthwise" here, as described earlier. That will look better in the hallway.

We are starting from the most important room on the same floor, which for us is the kitchen-dining-living area, and we are laying tiles across the room to avoid creating an overly narrow, corridor-like effect. The hallway and office are then aligned accordingly. In the hallway, the layout coincidentally matches the direction in the office, but in the office it is lengthwise. However, since this is less appealing, I want the office to be quite small and not have a drastically different aspect ratio.