# Space-Inspired Micro-Furniture Capsules IKEA's Line of Micro Home Furniture is Convenience-Focused By Kalin Ned | Published 2018-06-08 | Art & Design Source: Trend Hunter, https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/micro-home-furniture1 References: [dezeen](https://www.dezeen.com/2018/06/08/ikea-rumtid-furniture-homeware-space-travel/) & [ikea.today](http://ikea.today/) The 'Rumtid' collection is the latest offering by megastore [IKEA](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/creative-home) and it consists of four product ranges of micro home furniture. Compact and versatile, the items are perfect for tiny dwellings. The inspiration for the pieces is quite interesting, as well. The IKEA micro home furniture is informed by space. The megastore conducted studies at the [NASA](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/your-name-in-landsat) Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, where it explored the possibilities, limitation and potential necessities of future living spaces. Each of the four designs of micro home furniture explore a select issue — from time and space to water and air. IKEA's first three prototypes were revealed at the Democratic Design Days conference. The line-up consists of an air purifier, a tiny indoor garden and "a new super-lightweight material" that can serve a variety of home needs. ## Trend Insights (Trend Hunter) - Score: 4.8/10 - Popularity: 73% | Activity: 63% | Freshness: 8% - Audience gender: 50% men, 50% women - Primary generations: Gen Z, Millennial, Gen X - Top markets: Europe ## Categories [Trend Hunter](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends) > [Art & Design](https://www.trendhunter.com/artdesign) > [Design](https://www.trendhunter.com/design) ## Key Themes ### Key Themes Behind This Trend - **Micro Home Furniture:** Designing compact and versatile furniture for tiny dwellings presents opportunities for disruptive innovation in the home decor industry. - **Space-inspired Designs:** Drawing inspiration from space exploration, there is room for disruptive innovation in incorporating futuristic elements into everyday products across industries. - **Convenience-focused Products:** Creating products that prioritize convenience and address specific issues like air purification and indoor gardening can lead to disruptive innovation in the consumer electronics and gardening industries. ### Where This Applies - **Home Decor:** The micro home furniture trend opens up disruptive innovation opportunities for companies in the home decor industry to create space-saving solutions and versatile designs for smaller living spaces. - **Product Design:** The incorporation of space-inspired designs in various products offers disruptive innovation opportunities in the field of product design, where futuristic elements can be combined with functionality. - **Consumer Electronics:** The development of convenient and compact air purifiers presents disruptive innovation opportunities for companies in the consumer electronics industry to create efficient and space-saving devices for indoor air purification. ## Related on Trend Hunter - [Compact Kitchen Furniture Collections](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/compact-kitchen-furniture.md) - [Creative Home Collections](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/creative-home.md) - [Modern Furniture Designs](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/ikea-revealed.md) - [Incredibly Vibrant Homeware Collections](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/vibrant-homeware.md) - [Sleek Scandinavian Home Capsules](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/the-little-things.md) - [Past Era-Honoring Furniture Capsules](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/nytillverkad-time-capsule.md) - [Prefabricated Miniature Home Concepts](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/cpsula.md) - [Simplistic Fastening Furniture Capsules](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/easystory.md) - [Reinvented Compact Living](https://www.trendhunter.com/trends/affordable-housing-prototype.md)