I would like to take out my stained carpet in our living room and replace it with laminate hardwood. There is laminate hardwood installed in the rest of our downstairs. However, that type has now been discontinued according to Home Depot. Do you think it would look bad to have a different color laminate. I wouldn't try to match the other laminate, but would actually prefer a much darker shade. There are 2 entrances to my living room where the other laminate would butt up against the new laminate. Thoughts on this?

Attempting to install some engineering hardwood in a room I'm finishing, never put down a hardwood floor before so opted for what is supposed to be easiest. However when trying to clic the floor together, it doesn't seem to fully click, and when I lay it down it sits on a bit of an angle (join enough rows together and it's got a bow in it.) The instructions might as well not exist for all the help they are, tried watching videos but of course those all seems to show perfect installs where everything just falls into place. floor is well acclimated as it's for a project I started in the summer but have not gotten to until now. Only have two out of 11 cases open so I'm not against taking them back and suffering the small loss and going with a different product. Should note, this is my first attempt at engineered/hardwood flooring so I'm sure there is probably something I'm overlooking. But when I install, I put in the first row (piece of cake!) but then the second row, starting piece by piece, developes the angle I was mentioning. Try tapping it into place with a gargbage piece of the flooring (I picked a 1ft piece and designated it my tapping block) but nothing seems to correct the problem. Thanks for any help.