This is a nice soft rug with nicely finished edges. It is not really shiny and definitely not after a few weeks. We have had it for 6 months and it is already starting to fade but with the style it still looks nice. The background color is definitely beige, not ivory like in the picture. And the blue is much more a dark teal and French blue rather than faded navy and light grey blue. Also it’s hard to tell from the picture on the website but the fading is achieved with stripes of color so make sure you zoom way in and are ok with that. Overall it looks really nice.