This rug is a beautiful addition to our transitional style living room.  The background color is different than it appears on my monitor. In person, the background is actually 2 colors: Paprika red flexed with medium brown.  This lends for nice shading and goes well with the leaf colors. The shipment was super fast without any problems.  One end of the rug was curled after unrolling from the plastic.  Simply placing a  few weighty items eliminated this problem within one day.   I would highly recommend this beautiful, thick, attractive area rug.