Love this rug. I am using it at my front entry and think it will hide the dirt form my dogs and children well. It does look different in person than the picture, more black. But I was expecting this after reading the reviews. Did take a while to flatten out but I just rolled it the opposite direction for a day and that seemed to help. Very happy and think I will order a second one if it comes smaller for my garage/mudroom entrance that gets a lot of traffic from the kids