# Uplifting Living Rooms Art Student Turns an Elevator Into Her Home For a Day By Rose Nazarali | Published 2009-06-08 | Unique Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/elevator-art-student References: [dornob](http://dornob.com/occupied-elevator-living-life-in-a-lift-for-one-day/) A Dutch art student took over an [elevator lift](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/lift-house) and turned it into her home for a day. Set up as a [living room](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/cabanon), the elevator has all the necessities and then some, including a table, coffee maker, shelves, hangers, and a clock. The student had pictures taken from the same vantage point at different times in the day to document her day in the elevator, which consisted of meals, reading, relaxing, and ordering a pizza. ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 0.7/10 - Popularity: 1% | Activity: 13% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 50% men, 50% women - Primary generations: Millennial - Top markets: North America, Europe ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Unique](https://www.trendhunter.com/unique) ## Key Themes ### What Makes This Trend Stand Out - **Elevator Living:** Creating compact and multifunctional living spaces in small, unconventional areas such as an elevator can be a disruptive innovation opportunity. - **Micro Dwellings:** Designing efficient and comfortable living spaces in limited square footage, like the interior of an elevator, can present disruptive innovation opportunities. - **Mobile Homes:** Exploring the concept of portable and adaptable living spaces, similar to a mobile home, can lead to disruptive innovation in the housing industry. ### Sectors Adopting This - **Interior Design:** Innovating furniture and decor solutions for small and unconventional spaces, such as elevator interiors, can drive disruptive innovations in the interior design industry. - **Sustainable Housing:** Developing environmentally-friendly and space-efficient housing solutions, like utilizing elevators as living spaces, can be a disruptive innovation opportunity in the sustainable housing industry. - **Hospitality:** Exploring the concept of novel accommodations, including transforming elevators into temporary living quarters, can open up disruptive innovation opportunities in the hospitality industry. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Versatile Interior Compact Homes](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/elevate-tiny-home.md) - [Liveable Artful Pop-Up Installations](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/julie-cloos-mlsgaard.md) - [Elevated Leisure Habitats](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/elevated-leisure-habitat.md) - [Social Experiment Virtual Apartments](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/uncanny-spaces.md) - [Immersive Artful Apartments](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/oveneck-33.md) - [Inversion Living Concepts](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/tiny-getaway.md) - [Smartly Designed Compact Apartments](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/compact-apartments2.md) - [Artist Apartment Conversions](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/alan-prekop-studio.md) - [Water Tower-Transformed Apartments](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/amsterdamsestraatweg-water-tower.md)