Arrived on time and as pictured. I love the way it looks -and feels. I needed a thin rug but didn't want something that looked cheap or felt like indoor/outdoor, the fibers in this carpet are soft. With as much light and white coloured yarns it will get soiled soon and often but so far has been fine. The grays and blues (we got the blue one) and the styling of the rug manage to camouflage any dirt we have acquired so far, and we have it in a high traffic area of the living room.It "relaxed" within a day, no weird off putting scent, just pulled it out of the bag it came in and unrolled it. We weighted it down on the curly edges/ends with a few heavy books overnight and it was flat as a pancake the next day.--> We have had it now for a few months and I still love it. Last week I went to El Pollo for dinner take out and manage to bring it home, and against my better judgement decided to eat our dinner while watching t.v., and of course I dropped an entire container of their (WONDERFUL) cilantro dressing on the carpet! If you know what I am talking about you know it has that pale green colour - but on the carpet it turned almost neon green! I dropped everything (on the actual dining table) and began to sop and pat up what I could. I got some damp cloths and tried to get up as much of the dressing as possible, then I added some Dawn dish soap, because I know there has to be some form of fat in that dressing, and began to SCRUB trying to get the green out of the carpet. I worked at the fibers for about 20 minutes straight and got up about 90%? but it was already dark and the light was poor and I didn't know how much was left in the carpet until the next morning.The next morning the carpet had DRIED with a bit of the dressing still locked into the fibers and you could tell by the neon green that showed up quite visibly in -of course- the white part of the carpet! So again, I got the carpet quite damp, not wet, but very damp and began to sop again, it wasn't working, so I went to the cupboard and got out my 'Stingray' (Spot Remover- look it up here on Amazon, not cheap, but well worth it for a number of reasons!). I sprayed the stingray into the spots and also onto a veggie brush and began to work it into the rug, because man, what idiot eats in the living room? (me) Any who, it only took about 5 minutes and Stingray got the neon green completely out of the carpet. I wish now that I have taken before and after pics to prove how well it took care of the stain. After a few days the carpet still looks good, clean, and is still soft as ever, and you cannot tell where the spill was, at all. No bright spot, no fuzzing than other the others fibers, it looks perfectly the same.Bottom line: I love my carpet and I love Stingray Spot Remover!
