I have three relatively large rooms occupying the middle of our home and have a busy rug in the front and one in the back so I need something a little more "mellow" to tone everything else down and also for my daughters play area. This rug was PERFECT. The only issue I had was lugging this thing up 3 flights of stairs to its final destination. I was concerned that I would see sparse areas because of the thicker loom, but I am happy to report that that is certainly not the case. The rug is quite soft and had slight "odor", but I feel like that's mostly due to the rubber backing and that it had been sitting in heat on a truck for who knows how long before it eventually ended up on my doorstep. That rubber odor went away in just a couple days. It is a true cream color and not a beige. It does not have yellow or brown tint. I would say that it is vanilla in color.