Hot take: A client in Phoenix argued with me for 20 minutes that his new concrete patio should be 'sea foam green' because he saw it in a dream.

He brought a picture of a mint he'd sucked on as his color sample, and honestly, what do you even say to that?

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My uncle poured concrete for 30 years and said the wildest request he ever got was for a driveway the color of a bruised banana. It makes me wonder if @rodriguez.felix is onto something, but backwards. Maybe the guy isn't chasing the dream feeling. Maybe the dream gave him permission to want something totally weird and personal, something that doesn't exist on a normal color chart. The mint was just the closest thing in the real world he could grab to explain it. The real job becomes building the dream, not matching the wrapper.

rodriguez.felix20d agoMost Upvoted

You ever notice how people get married to an idea in their head and reality just can't compete? The dream version is perfect, so the actual color swatch or mint wrapper will never match up. It's like they're chasing a feeling they had, not picking a paint color. Makes a concrete patio about way more than concrete.

grantf7313d ago

Man, this whole thing reminds me of my neighbor trying to describe the blue for his shed. He kept saying "like the sky just after a big storm clears, but before the sun comes all the way out." The paint guy just stared at his fan deck. He bought a gallon of something called "Whale Song" and still looks a little sad when he sees it. I guess the color in his head was tied to a specific afternoon from his childhood.