Finishing Suggestions for Apothecary Console

I'm in process of starting to build this beautiful console for our Media storage and we have recently painted the room that it is going into a brownish-yellow-green color, think it's called Bamboo Leaves. Any ways thinking of going with a distressed Teal-ish color with a white undercoating. Anyone done this? I'm not sure how the white will look. Maybe I should do a wipe down (forgot what this is called) with a dark stain instead...

This will be my first attempt at a faux finish as well. I'm pretty handy/crafty, so I don't think I'll have too problem with technique, but deciding on colors, that's another story.

Thoughts?