I am very happy with this rug.  When ordering online it's hard to know what the hide will be in color due to the nature of each individual animal.  With this faux rug the guessing game is removed!  It really is the colors I was looking for and is large enough to fill the space I had it panned for.  For the price, the look.and the feel, it is a great buy.  I read the reviews carefully before making the purchase and kept in mind that one reviewer had said it could appear "dark brown" when described as charcoal.  I can understand why it was reviewed that way but I won't say it's brown, brown to me has more red color to it than this rug does.  The dark parts ARE charcoal and there is there is very clearly some separate gray speckles in it.  Also I think it is softer than a real hide, yet not as slick.  I really like it!