Maybe you could get a nice looking ceiling spot light, but put it on the floor as an uplight instead?
But here's an idea that would help your room acoustically... Convert all those CDs on to a hard drive, and play through a PC or music server system. Then the actual disc collection can go in a box in the closet as the "backup", and the rack out of the room. I've been doing it for years, can't beat the convenience.
