In December my Los Altos Hills clients had their gorgeous new cow hide rug installed.  It was a custom rework between myself and Kyle Bunting Rugs of their 'Jet Stream' design.  My client wanted a rug that would be beautiful & different and have visual interest, but not be intense in color.  We used a base color of 'maple', with accents in 'silver', 'oak' and 'brown speckle'.  I picked up the blue/grey of the mohair chairs in some surreptitiously placed stripes in 'silver', and the warm maple main field color has just enough depth & intensity to ensure the rug didn't end up blending with the maple floors...