Aqua Casa Houseboat, The Boat of Your Dreams! In an earlier post we featured the berkeley-engineering’s Cape Codder and I have been wanting to feature another one of their tiny house boats the Aqua Casa. The Aqua Casa Houseboat is the result of years of boat design and building experience. … Read more
One of the most frequent questions I get about our float cabin on Powell Lake in Coastal BC is, “Does it move? I’m sure that’s because the closest thing most people are familiar with is a houseboat. We have a few here on Powell Lake, but a float cabin is … Read more
About a week ago we covered the Green Pod company based in Washington. For you floating home enthusiasts, myself included, you will be excited to know that they also offer floating homes, based from their pods. You can view the previous post here. Greenpod has joint ventured with P & … Read more
If you are looking for the perfect tiny floating home, take a look at berkeley-engineering’s Cape Codder. Built with a 10 foot beam and either 20 or 24 foot length this cool little home is neat to look at and very practical and easy to build. The Cape Codder is … Read more
By Margy Lutz, Powell River, BC Float cabins on Powell Lake in Coastal British Columbia come in many sizes and styles. Originally they were bunkhouses or working structures for logging camps, or inexpensive weekend fishing and hunting retreats for mill workers. The cedar log floats and cabin materials for these … Read more
By Margy Lutz, Powell River, BC Christina Nellemann recently wrote an article here on the Tiny House Blog about living on a boat. In it she pointed out some of the challenges and pleasures of life on the water. My husband Wayne and I live on the water, but in … Read more
I’m sure many people like me have had the romantic dream of living aboard a boat: being rocked to sleep by gentle waves and waking up to new neighbors in the marina, chatting with friends over drinks in your cockpit while cooking a freshly caught fish on a tiny stove. … Read more
by Margy Lutz, Powell River, BC My husband Wayne and I were vacationing in Coastal British Columbia when we discovered something unique and intriguing on Powell Lake, float cabins. It was love at first sight. We had been looking for a place to retire and knew this was it. We … Read more
This is a follow-up to the Floating Retreat post of a few days ago. I had mentioned One Ugly Boat in that post and Harold the owner and designer of One Ugly Boat wrote and told me about his new design, the 32 foot shanty. I thought you floating home enthusiasts might … Read more
It’s been awhile since I have covered any cool floating homes. Remember Steph’s Floating Cottage. She is busy remodeling it and getting ready to really move in. This week I discovered this cool little Swedish retreat thanks to materialicious. This floating retreat is located somewhere in the Swedish Archipelago, where … Read more
There has been quite an interest in the floating home niche, so I am sharing with you Doug Lundy’s story written by Doug himself. For this builder living on a 37 foot sailboat provided all the comforts. The boat was his first project and Doug took the boat single handed … Read more
In the last post “Steph’s Tiny Floating Cottage“ I introduced you to the idea of tiny floating homes. In this post I would like to expand on that thought a bit and show you a few of the options and resources available to you. In a recent post on Park … Read more