This area rug is as described. It is thin but that was made clear by the description. It looks very nice and has held up well so far with two animals in the house. If you like to clean your rugs regularly with some type of rug cleaner, rugs with less pile height are easier to clean with rug cleaning machines (particularly those that are able to clean area rugs and hard floor surfaces). I have a shag rug and my machine will not clean it. That’s definitely a pro of a thinner area rug.