Michelle and Bill, an outdoor loving couple, build an eco-friendly floating home packed with innovative features. The couple hires an architect to design a curved roof covered in grass and solar panels and an underwater basement with a window where they can view fish in the lake. With the environment in mind, they re-use 100 year old cedar logs for their interior cladding and wardrobes.
A young couple builds a dream floating "starter home" in a marina with stunning views of the Vancouver Mountains on one side, and the Vancouver Skyline on the other. The home is complete with an office to work from, and an exterior fireplace to save space within the open concept living plan.
A couple who often sails on their yacht past the famous float homes of Ladner, now wants to live in one themselves. They build a colossal three story floating home with spectacular views of the wilderness and a mooring for their boat so that they can hop onto their yacht whenever they would like.
A water sport loving homeowner is determined to make her dream come true and build a stunning floating home on Seattle's Lake Union. Using the latest in contemporary design, the ingenious design space allows her to enjoy views in privacy but also to merge the deck into the living space for entertaining on a modern and grand scale.
A young Dutch couple builds a dream floating apartment with an old ship as the frame for their first "starter home" in Amsterdam. The ultra-modern layout reflects the shape of the ship and has stunning views of the capital and surrounding waters.
Steve and his friend Rick meet in Maine every year to restore old boats. Now, Steve wants to build an innovative tiny floating home to live in full-time. Using recycled materials, they build a shanty-style houseboat on a catamaran hull. Making up the design as they go along, the two friends visit a marine salvage yard and find windows left by the roadside to put the finishing touches on the houseboat. Completed in just two months, they then must jack it up onto a trailer and take it to the water's edge to see whether it will sink or float. The home floats but now the real challenge is to navigate it out into open ocean on a maiden voyage to Maine.
A water loving couple builds a massive dream floating home with stunning windows and wrap around glass walkways to join a community of 600 floating homes on the Fraser River. The finished product is a luxury ranch style home, with a bar area and pool table, and sun decks with amazing views of the river banks.
A water loving couple builds a floating home on a canal, south of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. The biggest challenge is getting the floating home to fit through the Netherland's network of narrow and shallow canals, but somehow the home makes its way through the waterways. Their spectacular home includes a raised roof with a 360 sky view, a modern open plan living space and a wraparound deck to enjoy the surrounding countryside.
An adventurous couple builds a nautical themed floating home in a marina with stunning sea and mountain views on Vancouver's north shore. Their spectacular maritime themed home includes port-hole windows, arched doorways, a high barrel ceiling and an outdoor deck. As launch day approaches everyone is excited; but the tow across Vancouver's harbor to its mooring site does not run smooth. Windy weather makes for a precarious journey and there are near on collisions as the home is docked.
A couple that has never lived on the water before builds an oversized houseboat so that they can take their home with them anywhere on the vast network of canals that crisscross the United Kingdom. The final result is a stunning houseboat, complete with a luxurious master bedroom and a spacious kitchen with a six-seat breakfast bar. The best part of all? Their beautiful floating home is completely mobile.
A couple swaps their Oregon apartment for a wooden floating home using timber that will last nearly 100 years in the water. The end result is a beautiful and unique pioneer style river home with views across Mount Hood in Portland.
My Floating Home follows the adventures of families who are building the ultimate waterside dream homes – stunning ‘aquatic homes’ that float on water. This series explores stunning design features created uniquely for floating homes - from underwater windows to view the fish to wraparound sundecks and huge picture windows to take in the 360 views. Each episode in this series follows a different family as they attempt to take their dream from initial concept to final mooring.
My Floating Home follows the adventures of families who are building the ultimate waterside dream homes – stunning ‘aquatic homes’ that float on water. This series explores stunning design features created uniquely for floating homes - from underwater windows to view the fish to wraparound sundecks and huge picture windows to take in the 360 views. Each episode in this series follows a different family as they attempt to take their dream from initial concept to final mooring.
In the Season 2 premiere, the Baris family live in the Netherlands, in the heart of canal country with dreams of building a floating home on the local waterways. Their ambitious design includes floor to ceiling windows along the length of the first level, and a fun underwater space on the ground level with a den and bedrooms for the kids. Narrow locks, shallow water and low bridges threaten the new build every step of the way, but the home finally makes it to its’ new mooring site and the family begin a new idyllic life on the water.
Linda’s dream is to build a floating home and moor it at Maple Bay Marina on Vancouver Island, positioned so it overlooks her favorite nature reserve–Chisolm Island. When the extra weight of the glass requires complex engineering to stop the walls from collapsing, the building process proves to be more complicated that she had originally expected. In the end, her spectacular floating home nests on the emerald waters of the bay, offering 360 degree views of the surrounding nature.
Valentin and Daria’s dream is to escape their cramped city apartment with their young son, and live on the Thames in their own floating home, right under the iconic Tower Bridge. They create their own design converting an old barge into a three tiered contemporary floating apartment, but are met with the challenge of moving their new finished home back to London. After a hair raising journey, they finally make it to England and their eye catching floating apartment becomes a new attraction next to Tower Bridge.
Lee and Justine want to transform an old steel hull boat into a 2 story floating house on the River Medway near Rochester, England. With only 16 weeks to build, the crew must battle bad weather and the enormous daily tide that lifts and drops the boat, twice a day. To make matters worse, when Justine’s huge diesel powered oven needs to be lifted on board, the weight of the oven causes the house to tilt, threatening it to collapse. The result is an amazing house with sleek modern interiors and upper decks that provide the perfect platform to soak in spectacular views of the river.
Karen and her boyfriend Tom have decided to build a houseboat on England's Grand Union Canal in the tranquil ambience of the stunning Colne Valley. When space becomes an issue for the build team, they may have to compromise on the design.
Fed up with her cramped city apartment, sportswear manager Marsha sets out to build a spacious two story floating home on the idyllic Multnomah Channel near Portland, Oregon with an open living space and unobscured views of the river.
After 30 years living on River Itchen in Southampton, Gerald sets out to design and build an extraordinary new home, a futuristic fiberglass house, made at Shamrock Quay Marina, designed and built by his 27 year old son, Aidan.
Joan is a floating home veteran but she’s taking the plunge and sinking her savings into a pair of brand new monster mansions worth a million dollars each. She’s not holding back on the high end finishes, luxury open plan lounges and kitchens, a sun deck on each of the three stories and a custom lighting plan. The pair of million dollar mansions squeezes through the locks and canals of Seattle at night before a team of tugs ease them into their moorings. Finally, we see the luxury interiors come together as the dream becomes reality for Joan.
Adventurous young professionals Ani and Charles buy a busted old oil barge to turn into their rustic first home; the couple has a tight budget and must do nearly all the work themselves
Now that their six children have finally all fled the nest, Allen and Jill want to create a new home that floats on the Annacis Channel, just south of Vancouver, Canada.
Ben and his wife Michelle have always been caravan fanatics. When they found an antique caravan on an auction website, they immediately decided to buy and bring this Caraboat back to life, into a fun and functional holiday getaway home.
Laurence's dream is to move into an upgraded floating pad that's big enough for his grandson to visit but small enough to fit in his own marina.
Kurt and Roberta want to escape their busy city lives in Seattle and build a three-story floating house in Maple Bay, the perfect mooring site with idyllic surroundings and stunning sea views.
Arizonian action duo, Jan and Don, decided to design and build the ultimate floating summer house on the Willamette River in Oregon, complete with vast outdoor decking, a custom-built staircase, wood burning stove, and an open plan living space.
Classical pianists Masa Tayama and Rhiana Henderson dream of combining their two passions: music and canal cruising.
Harry Smith is looking to upgrade the 1970's canal boat he bought in Birmingham for £4500 during his student days. The budding entrepreneur now has a budget of £1000 to bring his modest vessel up to date.
Two women from two cities share the same dream: designing and building a floating home to escape the cramped city life; seeing them become owners of two stunning houseboats an ocean apart.
Getting to know Trish and Richard, whose love for sailing was born in the U.K., thanks to a narrowboat named Patience; sitting in on negotiations as the couple trades in their South African estate for a custom-built floating home in England.
Exploring a 1950s Dutch cargo ship purchased by water lovers Aart and Nanouk; tracking their plans to transform this tired metal hulk into a dream home, and experiencing the logistical, financial, and emotional tolls it takes on everyone involved.
Scaling the property ladder in a big way with parents-to-be Jeroen and Lianne, who plan to turn a 254-ton industrial cement carrier into a dream home on the Amsterdam waterfront; it's a seven-month journey and their big gambles pay off.
The De Boer family tackles a new adventure, as parents Jan and Geja and their six children prepare to move into a freshly built home that will be part of a revolutionary floating village.
Surviving a heart attack pushes newly retired 55-year-old boating aficionado Colin to live floating life to the fullest, as he cruises Britain's waterways in his tricked-out narrowboat, Tickin' Along.
Kurt and Roberta celebrate 30 years of marriage and a new adventure; touring their ultramodern waterborne home on Vancouver Island's east coast, including an inside look at all of its luxurious amenities.