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I'm an absolute idiot

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Sanfrancoco · 26/08/2025 13:59

Only gone and ordered the wrong flooring (lino) AND had it fitted!! I can't believe I have done this when I had SO many opportunities to not make this mistake. £360 practically gone down the drain which is a lot to me. The difference is slight but the more I look at it the more I notice. I am devastated!! It's darker than the one I wanted and to make it worse, I have the correct one in the two bedrooms!! It crossed my mind that I should have brought a sample with me when I went to the shop to confirm my order (I had some of the previously fitted flooring left over) but I trusted that I would recognise it because obviously I had had it in both bedrooms for the past year 🙄 they only had one herringbone when I had the bedrooms done but now they have 2 shades and I didn't fucking realise like the idiot that I am so when he showed me the darker one I said yes. I even questioned the colour when he arrived to fit the flooring and rolled out some of the previous one to compare and stupidly allowed the fitter to convince me it is the same and sometimes there can be a slight difference in the roll or whatever the fuck he said but I obviously accepted the explanation like an idiot!! Once the floor was fitted, I did not immediately notice, it's only after they have left I've rolled out old sample and it's immediately obvious that it's not the same. I am gutted. I don't know what I can do except live with it and hate myself forever. Yeah in the grand scheme of things, things could be worse but I am pretty pissed at myself right now

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SummerFrog25 · 26/08/2025 16:57

MyIvyGrows · 26/08/2025 14:29

Honestly you’re over-thinking it.

I hate to be that poster but I’m going to do it anyway: aren’t you lucky having lots of nice new homewares and furniture? Maybe just enjoy it?

Sorry, but that's a daft thing to say.

shes work/saved, she hasn't won it. It's not 'lucky'

shes spent hard earned money on something. It's not right & shes allowed to be disappointed/cross without being accused of 'overthinking it'

hideawayforever · 26/08/2025 17:09

The Darker one is so much nicer than the light one

Sanfrancoco · 26/08/2025 17:44

SummerFrog25 · 26/08/2025 16:53

The shop should have made you aware they now have two very similar when you were in there asking about the Herringbone.

You told the fitter it wasn't the same, he convinced you it was.

it doesn't look the same.

it IS nice you've been able to get some new furnishings etc. but it's not 'lucky' you didn't win them! You worked hard/saved whatever to buy them.

id definitely go back to the shop, speak to them very nicely. But tell them it isn't what you previously bought, they didn't make you aware they now have 2 similar herringbone & you told the fitter it wasn't wrong, but he told you it wasn't. He came up with BS about it just being a different 'batch'. Talk to them. Nicely. I very much doubt they'll replace it completely free, but it might not cost too much & you can sell what you have down now.

It would piss me off massively & I'd need to get the other one put down.

Thank you, not lucky at all, they didn't just appear! I will try tomorrow but I'm very doubtful and understand why they may not take any responsibility because outside of me listening to the fitter and not being told they have multiple similar shades, I guess it's ultimately my fault. Thank you for the kind words/advice nonetheless

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Sanfrancoco · 26/08/2025 17:47

hideawayforever · 26/08/2025 17:09

The Darker one is so much nicer than the light one

Seems to be the general consensus, I wish I felt the same

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