Staying within the Footprint
This basement is in a 1920's house and had small rooms due to interior brick foundation walls. Since this was the largest room in the basement, we chose to finish it even though there was a huge plumbing stack and a structural column about 2' apart in the middle of the room. A clever concealment of these elements resulted in the floating bookshelves and accent niche in the middle of the room.
Shelf hides columns