Floating Homes

Unique Floating Tiny Home Lifestyle

Sarah and Brandon are a North Carolina-based couple living with their dog Iko in an off-grid floating cabin on Lake Fontana in the Great Smoky Mountains. They live fully off-grid with no cell service and they are only accessible by boat. They bought and fully renovated their 225-square-foot tiny home on floats about a year and a half ago and have been living on it full time ever since. Open Floor Plan It is an open floor plan without any doors inside. It’s all pretty …

Pax Tiny Float Home

by Kent Griswold

The Pax was lovingly restored and renovated by Jason and Cayley over the course of a year and a half. It was one of 25 boats built in Victoria, Canada for Expo ’86 but it had fallen into disrepair. It’s now an absolutely stunning 1 bedroom home on the water! Jason is a professional boat builder and Cayley a professional carpenter. They originally picked up the boat to salvage at a cost of around $6,000. In order to restore it they had to gut it …

The M250 Floating Home

by Kent Griswold

Houseboats are a tiny house alternative. On Water Developments based in the UK is a company redefining living on the water. Their goal is to design and place high-specification houseboats in unique places for residency, commercial or high-end tourism. Their smallest offering is the M250 floating home. Compact, sleek, refined, the M250 is their most versatile craft yet. Whether it’s for a much-needed holiday, a working weekend, or simply taking time to enjoy all-around blue health benefits, the M250 provides the ultimate marina experience. M250 …

Erin Carey – Living and Working Tiny from a Boat

by Kent Griswold

Erin Carey has been parenting and running a business while living tiny and traveling full-time on the water, Erin lives on a boat with her family and also runs her own PR agency, a business she started after making the transition to living tiny on the water. In Ethan’s interview, we’re going to hear her and her family’s story, learn about the headspace and some of the things Erin did to stay motivated for making this big transition. Erin also tells us how she is …

Rick Moore on Living Off-Grid for Months at Sea: Hydroponics, Solar, Wind, and Gardening on a Sailboat

by Kent Griswold

In his podcast, Ethan talks with Rick Moore about the challenges of living on a 50-ft sailboat. The sailboat, the Sophisticated Lady, is fully set up to live off-grid for months at a time, with solar and wind power, a water desalination unit, and even a garden on board. Rick takes us through his systems and shows how living on the water can apply to tiny house living. Subscribe to Tiny House Lifestyle Podcast via Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, More… In This Episode: Solar and wind power make the Sophisticated …

The SeaSuite Tiny House Boat

by Kent Griswold

The SeaSuite was designed by Mark Philbrook to fill a gap in the boat rental market. He knew there were people who’d want to experience being on the water but lacked the skills to charter a boat. He therefore came up with the Fixed Base Bareboat Charter concept where guests would charter a boat and it would not leave the dock. He designed the SeaSuite to fill this market and over the next two years he and his business partner, Craig Toby, built the boat. …

What Style of Small or Tiny Home is Right For You?

by Alexis Stephens

The best things come in small packages. When it comes to housing, Henry David Thoreau, a famous early tiny home enthusiast, would likely agree. His outstanding collection of essays, Walden, was a testament to the benefits of minimalist living. The book detailed his life in a 150 square foot cabin in the woods near Walden Pond. Though more than a century would pass after the death of Thoreau’s before living small would become seen as practical and even stylish, his simple lifestyle has become the answer …

The PierShare Story: How One Startup Founder Wants To Help More People Live Aboard Their Boats

by Kent Griswold

If you asked most people what they would do if they could drop everything and leave the pains of daily life behind, I venture a good majority would want to grab a sailboat or catamaran and sail the world. I certainly would want to do that myself. While I’m still a few years off from doing so, I’ve learned through starting PierShare that living aboard a boat presents a unique challenge space-wise. However, there is also another problem that I’m sure that many liveaboard boaters …

How I Fell in Love With the Tiny Life

by Kent Griswold

I still vividly remember the day I left my apartment near San Francisco for the last time to live in a Toyota Prius. The move felt more out of necessity than adventure, a step to drastically cut my living expenses so I could finally pay off lingering debt. But I felt worried and scared. How would I adjust not having my own bathroom at night? A comfortable couch for evening relaxation? My own coffee pot and shower and bed and closet and everything else that …

Pros and Cons of a Tiny House Boat

by Kent Griswold

The evolution of the tiny house just keeps getting better and better. Tiny houses evolved into tiny cabins, both were then available to be put on wheels — the evolution now culminating in the development of the tiny house boat. It is exactly what it sounds like: a tiny house that floats on water. It is as if having a tiny house on a trailer that you can relocate at a moment’s notice has grown sea legs. No longer are you tethered to a plot …

Portland Massage Therapist Lives Full-Time on a Sailboat

by Christina Nellemann

Cheryl GreatHouse is a massage therapist living in Portland, Oregon. After meeting her through a mutual acquaintance, I knew I wouldn’t be surprised that this strong lady would end up living on a sailboat named after the Maori name for “Warrior Woman.” Cheryl lives on a 1980 Morgan 38 foot sailboat on the Columbia River. After living in a range of homes (including a backyard yurt), she decided to live her dream and move onto Wahine Toa and into a marina. She and the Morgan …

Floating Tiny Houses

by Kent Griswold

I’ve been doing a series to the email list about the different types of tiny houses available to you. I had a reader ask me yesterday if we had covered floating homes on the Tiny House Blog and as this was one of my future emails I decided to bring it to the front. He wanted more information about homes on pontoons. We recently covered the one pictured here on the cover of the Tiny House Magazine. This one is not built for full time …