The time a homeowner asked me to match the carpet to their cat

I was doing a job in a big old house in Tacoma last fall, putting down a nice berber in the living room. The lady who lived there, Mrs. Ellis, was super nice but a bit out there. Halfway through the day, she comes in holding her giant orange tabby cat, Fluffernutter, and says, 'I know the sample is that tan color, but can you make it look more like him? The exact shade of his belly fur.' She was dead serious. I just stared for a second, holding my knee kicker, trying to figure out how to explain that carpet doesn't come in 'Fluffernutter Belly Beige.' I ended up holding a scrap piece next to the cat for a good five minutes while she squinted and hummed. We finally agreed the sample was close enough. Has a client ever asked you to match a floor to something totally wild?

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palmer.henry15d ago

Wasn't there a story online about someone trying to match paint to their dog's nose? I mean, pets are a whole other level of color matching. That cat belly beige thing is pretty funny.

stone.evan15d ago

Matching paint to a dog's nose? That's a new kind of color obsession. I can't even get a chip to match my own wall correctly. People are really out here living in a different world.