1. The color of the rug is not as rich as it appears in the picture. In person, it's more dull and faded looking. 

2. The border is nice, but functionally great. It's just fabric wrapped over the edge, it's not thickstiff like you think it would be... as a result, when you walk over it, you can easily trip over the edge since it doesn't lay flat. And once you do that, the edge is always curled upward, causing you to continue to trip on it, making it curl more. Currently we have the edges taped down in hopes of flattening it.