This rug is beautiful, soft, and thick. It's a little more aqua blue than teal blue (the picture makes it look like it's more of a greenish teal), but either way it looks good with the other pops of turquoise that I have in my living room. Another thing I like about it is that the blue saturation does vary throughout - some parts of the rug it's more subdued and white so it gives a good variation and doesn't feel too saturated with the blue color. It flattened out easily on it's own after about a day and is holding up well. The fringe detail is also very pretty but hard to see in the picture. I would definitely recommend this rug for the quality and the design.