new carpet

My parents moved house and DM did not like the carpets. However, nothing she looked at was quite right, it was the colour or the texture etc

Seventeen years later, still with the original carpet in place and almost threadbare, she died. After the funeral and other obsequies. DF went out, chose a carpet and had it laid. It looked fine.

It is 40 years or more since we last had a carpet with pile, I simply cannot remember what it is like. Our current house is all wood floors and rugs, previous house had berber throughout.

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Ours is the same, medium grey, but it doesn’t bother us.

Mine's the same but it does bother me ?

I know exactly what you mean.
I have wood flooring, with a nice rug in each room. They look gorgeous and’fluffed’ up when vacuumed, the minute me or the dogs or DH walk on them they look messy again, it could drive me mad....if I let it.

I don’t let it. I look at them and enjoy for a moment how nice they look, also I know they are free from fluff and dog hair. Then just forget about it till the next day. So just enjoy a brief minute while it looks nice, then don’t dwell on it

Ours is the same, medium grey, but it doesn’t bother us.

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It’s the small samples that don’t show the overall effect. I once had this problem and called the carpet shop owner back to look. He brought the sample with him and it was correct, but I hadn’t noticed the shadowing in the smaller sample.
I learnt to live with it and it did seem to diminish over time.

I would be disappointed too. Do you have the sample you chose from to compare?

If I were you I would get hold of it and compare. It will be easier to live with if it’s the same and it’s basically “your fault” than if you forever think you may have the wrong one.

If you don’t have a sample, ask the company if you can please have one as it just doesn’t look quite right to you. I’d say, “ I know this must sound bonkers but I’d like to just put my mind at rest...”

Good luck.

Thank you,think I am fixating on it,asked on here for advice because I think I moaned to my limit with my husband,know it's silly but wanted a new carpet for so long now feel so disappointed.

joanna12, I think you've become fixated on the appearance of the carpet. Try to focus on other things. It will probably wear in and lie flat given time.

I do recognise that horrible disappointed feeling, though, when a new purchase doesn't live up to expectations!

Told by a well known national retail park carpet company ?

I was told Saxony and Berber style carpets are about the only ones that aren’t prone to “shadowing” when trodden on.

just bugs me,know bigger things to worry about but it didn't look like it would be that way from the sample or i wouldn't have bought it even wondered if i had the right carpet fitted.I know its fussy,but i wish i had kept my eight year old worn carpet and i should be feeling lucky.thank you

I love that look. Once it gets old it will look uniformly dull.