I don't mind the spiral CFLs in most of my lights, but I have one chandelier over my kitchen island, and it's the focal point of the kitchen area, and I did look for more traditional looking CFL for that and found it. They look almost like a traditional incandescent bulb.

Many years ago I replaced almost every bulb in the house with energy savers. The big bulky ones with prismatic glass cases were the only option at that time, and we had to mail order them as nobody was selling them back then. We still have all but one of them now. Some people have said they're ugly, but really it has never bothered me. Ordinary bulbs aren't pretty either, it just helps that we're used to them.

Thankfully it's an irrelevant point now as you can buy inexpensive energy savers that look almost exactly like normal bulbs.