What style is your room? and does the bar sit in line with the table ie the bottom section running across the table - or does it cut across it width ways?

If it were me - I would use the cable lights and wrap them around the bar and hang pendants off them to make a feature. But then we have a semi industrial style so we wouldn't mind the bar.

You can still do the same thing though but have less industrial shades on of course. It just depends where the bar sits over the table. Picture of the room and table would help..

can you get a photo with the table and bar in at all? it is straight over the table or to the side?

I quite like the metal bar/cable in your vaulted ceiling.

Perhaps it's something you could embrace or at least use to your advantage.

It would lend itself very well for a more industrial look.

Ah, Tani said a similar thing already...

Yep, sjuly’s idea painting it dark grey or black sounds like an excellent one.

And repeating it elsewhere.