bay windows looks nice . i don't know why you hate them , may be it is due to the fact that you have seen them too many
but anyway one of my cousins also has on in his room and he and I made some arrangements for that. We bought a nice silver Chinese style open table and put it in front. really that was a horrible when you think but believe me when we put it that way that was looking awsome.
The best thing about the table was it can be splitted into pieces so that was a kind of open end table which looks like made up of different pieces.and arranged some books over to meed the pattern of the window.
good to go.......