The colors were great when I got it, more aqua than blue with a lot of black, etc.  It's cotton, which I wanted so I could throw in the laundry since it was in the kitchen, and I really did like that part.  But it fades pretty quickly.  It's also flat and slides around with the cats.  But for the price it did the job and washes up nice wihtout shrinking too bad.  You can vacuum if two people stand on it.