It's fantastic combined with natural, frosted glass and chocolate wood, which I'm in love with at the moment. I read all the books in the bookshop, and buy the best ones. Remove everything if at all humanly possible. Then sit yourself down in the middle of the room and have a look around. Look at the light.
Natural light is the strongest influence on a room, then the architecture of the space.
Then work with those two things. Incorporating their ideas with mine always produces interesting results. I can be very stubborn. Don't tell anyone, but I usually get my own way. Start with a natural palette.