I was kind of disappointed when this arrived, after reading so many great reviews about this rug. Maybe it's because I got a small one, but it seems puny and pointless. I wanted a really plush rug beside my bed, and this one looks gorgeous in the photo. In real life, however, it lays very flat and doesn't have much pile to it. I don't think it's cheaply made, surprisingly. But maybe it just wasn't very well thought-out. I think the strands that make the shag are too long. They don't stand up. If there were about twice as many of them, it might have helped. But they're not terribly dense the way you'd hope a good shag rug would be, they're very thin strands, and they're longer than most shag threads, so it doesn't have any cushion. The texture is silky and feels okay on my feet, but I can easily feel the rug's textured backing and the hard wood floor beneath it, so it's actually kind of weird to step on it. It's like stepping on something slippery, almost. Not what I imagined. The silver, however, is nice. It's definitely silver--not gray. I really don't know what to do with it. It doesn't look right anywhere. The pile also lays so flat that the off-white canvas edging is visible, making it look cheaper. I like shag rugs that are shaggy and dense enough that they fluff out over the outline of the rug, so that you don't notice the piping around the edge.
I wouldn't recommend this unequivocally, BUT, if you have a very good, thick rug pad and plan to have some furniture around the edges where the piping can be seen (only one edge, to be fair. The shag lays in one direction, so it covers one side very well, and the two longer sides are sufficiently covered over, but the edge where the shag lays away from it is where you see the piping), then you could make a larger version of this rug look really good. For my purposes, it doesn't really cut it, which is a bummer. It's a well-made rug. Just has a couple of flaws.