Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

Just got my rug yesterday and I'm happy to say that the positive reviews are all accurate. Wished I could have seen more photos of the Ivory color before ordering, so I'll upload some of my own! I'll start with how the rug feels: it is most certainly plush, dense, and high quality. Your feet will just sink into it. It even looks rich and dense. The moment it arrived, my cat began rolling around and playing on it, which brings me to the next point - the smell: it does not have an offensive chemical odor! There is a slight "new carpet" smell, but nothing too strong or offensive. If it were strong, I doubt my cat would have decided to nap on it as soon as I lay it down, since cats are sensitive to strong odors. Now, it's been 24 hours since I put down this rug and I honestly, can't even smell it anymore. The ivory color looks really beautiful when matched with taupe colored furniture, which is what I have; I imagine it'd look great with greys as well, but probably won't go too well with light beige or white furniture (unless you want something totally monochromatic), since there will be too little contrast. I considered this when choosing between ivory and beige, and I'm glad I went with ivory, because any darker and there wouldn't have been sufficient contrast between the rug and my taupe sofa fabric. The ivory color is pretty identical to the one you see in the thumbnail and the photos I've uploaded. It's a warm cream color - I think someone else described it as the color of white chocolate, which I'd say is pretty accurate. When this rug first arrived the threads were sort of flat, but it fluffed up very nicely once I vacuumed it. My vacuum cleaner itself doesn't work on this even on the highest pile setting because the rug is just too dense and the pile is too high, but using the vacuum's upholstery brush attachment did the job. This won't be difficult for me because my rug is 4 x 6, but if you have a larger size, I imagine it'd be a bit annoying to have to use an attachment every time (unless your vacuum is better than mine and can go over these types of rugs). Vacuuming it when it arrives may also help with the smell a bit in addition to straightening it out a bit from the ripple effect created by having been rolled up. The last and only somewhat negative point is that the rug does slide around quite a bit on my laminate flooring. I have the front leg of the chaise of my sectional sofa resting on it as well the four legs of my ottoman, but it still slides around when I step onto it. This is in no way a deal breaker, because I looked into rug pads, found them to be pretty inexpensive, and just ordered one, which should take care of this problem. I also imagine the sliding is more of an issue for the smaller rug sizes, because they're not very heavy. I actually wish I had gone for a larger size, only to have more of my living room covered so there's more area in which my feet can step on the soft fluffiness of this rug - in the future, when I'm in the market for a larger rug, I am definitely going to be buying the same one in a larger size.