This is one of the most beautiful rugs I have seen. I am sooo glad we purchased it! We initially bout the Safavieh Cambridge rug in ivory/silver, but, it was so busy that it took away from our living room. We returned that one and bout this one and I couldn't be happier. This rug is more beautiful in person than the picture shows. It is very soft to walk on. It is more on the thin side, but, not too thin - kind of like a medium weight. Because it is so soft, I think you could skip a rug pad for it if you wanted to. It also seems larger than what we ordered. We ordered the 10' x 13', but it looks more like 10' x 14.5' in our living room, which is actually what we wanted. I think the fringes on the short end make it appear somewhat larger. All in all, I can't be more pleased with this rug. The only thing I would say is that it comes folded so you will need to lay weights on it to get the creases out.