Thanks in advance for your answers. And I am the parquet installer myself, and I'm an amateur. At the beginning or in difficult spots, the professional still helps me, the rest I do alone or with other amateur buddies ;) Unfortunately, I don't know how many 6m planks there are, actually it was said that there are planks between 2 and 5 meters, according to the offer, but he now said there are also some 6m ones. The hallway directly after the front door is 2.5m wide, from the stairs it briefly narrows to 1.5m, but it is an open staircase with a glass railing, so it shouldn't feel too cramped (currently still a wooden railing as a provisional solution, hard to judge). The same on the upper floor, 2.5m wide and along the railing only 1.5m wide. Basically, the hallway upstairs is 8.5m long, so the long planks would work well there. Upstairs in the hallway, we don't have an attic (roof equals ceiling), so there's plenty of headroom. I'm really struggling with this, I feel like I would have laid it parallel to the hallway direction, it's rather positive if a hallway looks long. But most opinions on this, including here in the forum, tend to favor laying it crosswise in the hallway. Regards