I absolutely love love the look of this rug. It is a little thinner than I expected and definitely more blue than black - it's really not black at all in my house and is the perfect contrast against my grey floors. Giving it 4 stars because the way the pattern was printed on the rug is a little weird and I can see some white lines of where the weave is lifted and the pattern is interrupted. It's under one of the armchairs so I don't mind, but sort of annoying for the price.