The colors are much, much lighter than pictured. In fact, at first I thought I was sent the wrong rug! It's actually a very pale beige, the accents are more jack-o-lantern orange and peach than the orangey-red pictured. All the beautiful variations in color that were pictured in the background are virtually indistinguishable. It's pretty, but not at all what I expected. 

I was really excited to get the rug as pictured, and I tried really hard to like it. As you can imagine, I'm really disappointed, and I'm not looking forward to the challenge of getting it back into its packaging and returned.