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Originally Posted by The Gaijin
I am no pro - but I think you start in the middle and work out. Every wall will be wavey and nothing is ever square! Good luck.
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I'm not a pro either but I work in the Construction industry and the above is a common misconception. You DO NOT lay out the floor as though you were putting an open ended box down on top of a sheet of grid paper. Sounds like it would be right, but its not.
It is always a judgement call but you start from the location you will MOSTLY see the floor from. If the room has multiple entrances for example, you lay out whole tiles from the most used entrance point and put the cuts in the least conspicuous perspective. It is difficult to describe but you have to adjust that general rule too; it isn't a hard and fast one. If the walls taper or are wavey there is not much you can do to correct that. Sometimes laying out the tile on the diagonal minimizes the impression of those deficiencies. Some times if you have a long room, like a galley kitchen ,and do not want to emphasize that look you use the diagonal layout.
How aobut posting a picture of the room?