Really great area rug for the price. The color looks better than the picture, it's a nice dark grey. The carpet does shed in the beginning but goes away after several vacuumings. Only complaint was there were a couple of dark red/brown pieces of wool sewn in at the very edge of the carpet around the outside. I cut them off at the base of the carpet and you can't tell they were even there, other than that I LOVE IT!!!!!