This is a lovely rug - just a great, lighter neutral that works great in our dining room.  I have a 1/4” pad underneath; feels great to walk on it.  The only drawback:  our Dyson vacuum does not work on the rug.  The rug is too lightweight so the vacuum just sticks to one place on the rug and won’t move.  Since we really like the rug, we are looking for an inexpensive vacuum to use on our Rifle rugs (we have a few!)