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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. 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.
After some major design issues, their minimalist, ultra-modern floating home is finally complete and it’s the perfect relaxing retreat they’ve always dreamed of. The build team faces delays as the harsh Oregon winter takes hold and a weight imbalance threatens to capsize the floating foundation. 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.
High-Tech River House
On route the floating ‘work of art’ attracts a lot of attention but finally it makes it to it’s new home with a float home community on Seattle’s Lake Union. 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.
The interior is not complete and the painters hitch a ride and continue decorating on route under pressure to finish before they dock. Finally the floating apartment enters the canals of Amsterdam and docks at Roy and Rianne’s mooring site with stunning views of the capital and the surrounding waters. But because those properties are not plentiful - and what is available can be very expensive - homebuyers are expanding the definition of waterfront to include not just the "front" but also the back and sides.
Floating Summer House
Work begins with the huge steel hull, which Les gives a traditional high-gloss paint job before fitting a high-spec interior. This includes a bathroom with a bathtub – something never normally fitted on a boat – which causes Les a few headaches. After launching the vast vessel, brand new skippers Janet and Dwayne have to navigate it up a busy waterway to their permanent mooring, without crashing into the bank or other boats. Once safely docked, Janet and Dwayne proudly show us the end result - a stunning and huge houseboat, bigger than almost anything else on the canal system. They have a luxurious master bedroom complete with en-suite and bath, as well as a spare double bedroom and additional shower. A spacious kitchen diner complete with wood worktops, and a six-seat breakfast bar makes for a comfy and luxurious heart of the home.
By winter, Gerald ends up the proud owner of a unique modern home, with stunning interiors and space to entertain, and a very proud father, acknowledging what his son Aidan has achieved. Now that their six children have finally all fled the nest, Allen and Jill want to create a new home–and one that floats on the Annacis Channel, just south of Vancouver, Canada. The return of the series following people who aspire to live in stunning homes that float on water.
British family estate agent teams help sun-thirsty house-hunters find their dream property abroadSun, Sea and Selling Houses
Classical pianists Masayuki Tayama and Rhiana Henderson have a dream of combining their two passions, music and canal cruising. So they are risking Masayuki's life savings to commission a one-of-a-kind floating home that is also a concert hall - and a hotel. Plus, a couple in Ladner on Canada's west coast, whose wish list includes a large three-storey layout with sun decks.
The result, a dream remote river home, built pioneer style, and a new life as residents in a unique floating home community. Father and daughter build team, Ryan and Aime have never built a floating house before, and are doubly challenged when they’re hit by an onslaught of snow, ice and epic flooding. Despite severe delays due to the weather and last minute changes, the dramatic ten month long build is worth the effort–Marsha ends up the proud owner of a stunning home with spacious interiors and fantastic views. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With help from an expert engineer in building floating micro homes, Laurence hopes to fit out the interior himself and re-design the layout with an open living plan. When it finally comes down to the final stages of the build, snow and flood warnings add to the already challenging task of getting the home to his marina. 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.
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