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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. 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.
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. Trish Urquhart and Richard Beynon have fallen in love with the UK's waterways through many years of holidaying in their own narrowboat. Now the couple have made the radical decision to sell their house in South Africa and build a bespoke floating home in Bedfordshire. Susan Dunn is passionate about building a stunning floating home using the latest in contemporary design in Seattle, Washington.
First Time Floating Home
In just seven months, with a baby on the way and a budget of £135,000 they plan to turn a titanic 254-ton industrial cement carrier into their dream waterborne home. George Clarke explores the extraordinary world of small builds, where people turn tiny spaces into the most incredible places to live, work and play. Sailing aficionados Valentin and Daria want to escape their cramped city apartment with their young son, Yves, to live on the Thames. 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. 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. An ambitious barge conversion on the River Medway hits stormy weather and rising tides.
They build a massive three story wilderness retreat with a second floor glass wall leading onto a patio deck, complete with a huge roof terrace. While trying to move it to the mooring site, the wind immediately grabs hold of it, pushing it straight into another house. Finally, they win the battle against the elements and tie the new home onto its mooring overlooking the bay. Nature lovers, Harry and Tina live on Canada's Vancouver Island and would like to move onto the water full-time and find the perfect mooring at Maple Bay Marina on the island's east coast.
14 Floating Summer House
Finally the home reaches its destination and Glenn and Margaret takes us round their spectacular maritime themed home. A house owner is determined to make her dream come true and build a stunning floating home using the latest in contemporary design. Susan Dunn has always enjoyed a sporting life on the water in Seattle Washington but now she wants to live on it – and in style! Susan employs a local architect who is renowned for designing ultra modern floating homes.
Some sections are so tight with only a few centimetres to spare on either side that only hands and feet can move the home forward. Wout and Lydia show us round their spectacular home with it’s modern open plan living area leading out onto the wraparound deck with stunning views of the idyllic rural setting. They want to moor it in the Netherlands’ capital, Amsterdam – the city of canals and a mecca for people who like to live on the water. For this young couple Roy and Rianne, a floating apartment is ideal as a cheap first time pad.
12 Floating Tiny Home
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. 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. 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.
They hire award winning architect Richard Coutts to come up with a sleek modern single storey design with a roof terrace and floor to ceiling windows. The floating concrete base that the house will sit on is made in The Netherlands. The Dutch team must pour tons of concrete around a reinforced steel mesh to form a huge hollow box, weighing in at 40 tons! It is then loaded onto a special truck and driven to the ferry port in the nick of time, where it takes the short sea crossing to the UK. Once in Chichester Marina, the team must lower it using a heavy duty crane, into the water in a tense operation. Not knowing whether it will float evenly, they release the cables and it sits perfectly in the water.
08 Luxury Water Homes
Young entrepreneur Harry Smith sets out to convert a 1970s canal boat that he bought during his student days - but he only has £1,000 to bring this modest vessel up to date. We're sorry, there are no episodes available to watch on TV in the next 14 days. Twist is a 24/7 broadcast television network that entertains viewers with exciting reality and lifestyle shows.
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. Mark Evans follows water-loving couple Shirley and Russ, who enjoy kayaking and living on their yacht. Now they want to join a large community of 600 floating homes in Canada, designing a luxury ranch-style home, including wraparound sundecks for year round entertaining, a bar area and pool table on the upper levels. When a mooring became free in Chichester Marina, UK, they decided to take the plunge and build a floating home from scratch.
Narrow locks, shallow water and low bridges threaten the new build every step of the way, but the home finally makes it to the new mooring site. When a mooring becomes free in Chichester Marina, UK, they decide to take the plunge and build a floating home from scratch. They hire an award-winning architect to come up with a modern single story design with a roof terrace and floor to ceiling windows.
He is planning to spend half the year cruising Britain's waterways on a high-spec narrowboat, called Tickin Along. 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. In seven months, they plan to turn a 254-ton industrial cement carrier into their dream waterborne home. In Amsterdam, Jeroen and Lianne Gels are stepping onto the property ladder in a big way.
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