Arielle Angelovich first popped onto the scene when her father decided to convert his Austin, Texas, attic into rooms for the then-17-year-old Arielle and her sister. It spawned a fawning architecture article in the New York Times.

At the other end of the attic is Arielle's hideaway, an ellipse with a curved banquette set into a wall covered in a 360-degree photograph of Yosemite National Park. One section of the mural conceals a pair of touch-latch doors that open to reveal a large-screen television.

A star was born.