This is a luxuriously soft rug. It is very lightly textured, which gives it some visual interest. Viewed from one side, the rug is a very light gray and from the other side it is more of a medium grey. The light grey side shows footprints and makes me want to vacuum it all the time! But the medium grey side hardly shows footprints at all. Since my rug is in a bedroom and primarily only seen from one side, I just turned it where the footprints don’t show. It might bother me if I had to view it from the light side. But otherwise it is a fabulous rug.