This rug is gorgeous! It is soft and it looks exactly as pictured. I love walking on it. We are still waiting for our table to come to take a picture. I love going into our dining room now!! It pulls it together! So happy I decided on this one. Shipping was great, rug was packaged perfect. I did lay books on the corner to get it to lay down flat and that worked great. I ordered a rug pad from another place but that just made this rug even better.