Purchased this rug for our living room and it's perfect. Adds a beautiful pop of color to the room and feels very nice underfoot without a rug pad. Had kind of a gross dirt smell when it first arrived but that quickly dissipated within a day. It doesn't shed much day-to-day, but it does fill up my vacuum with fibers when when I'm cleaning. My one gripe is that I thought the color would be more red than magenta, but I still love the look of it.