Extending A Laravel View In A Parent Folder

My view folder structure looks like this

+ views
  + user
    -login.blade.php 
  -layout.blade.php
  -header.blade.php
  -footer.blade.php

I want login.blade.php (which is in the user folder) to extend the layout.blade.php (which is in the views folder) but it is not working. I have tried the following statements but doesn't work::

@extends("views.layout")
@extends(".views.layout")
@extends("app.views.layout")

Can someone tell me what am doing wrong.

thanks

The views directory is the main one, so you shouldn't declare it in the path. You could simply use:

@extends("layout")