Beautiful rug. I agonized for months over what to buy because there's so many funky weird colors showing up in area rugs. You know the weird beige or ivory that's mauve? Anyway - I have some striped drapes from Pier One and i needed to get the colors perfect. The chocolate in the background could be dull, but I couldn't be sure was going to be a true dark-dark brown and he green needed be erroring on the side of grass almost lime-any green, not sage. Again if you've ordered rugs of late you know shipping may be free one way but getting them returned is expensive if the colors and size are dead on. This one was perfect.