Following the loss of their 100 year-old houseboat to a fire, architect Michelle Lanker and her husband Bill Bloxom decided to design a modern replacement. Named Houseboat H, the high-end floating ...

I recently covered a houseboat design dubbed the Lumina. It’s a concept from the mind of a Russian superyacht designer which decided to bring a different level of style to the floating home game. Well ...

Aptly christened the Cube Houseboat, the angular 59-foot vessel was inspired by the pioneering creations of the modernist movement and the work of Swiss-French architect and designer Le Corbusier. The ...

An envious mood must occasionally strike anyone who drives Highway 101 past the Sausalito houseboat district on Richardson Bay. You can't help but think how pleasant such a home would be, combining ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. On the shoreline of Richardson’s Bay in Sausalito, just five minutes’ drive north of San Francisco, is a small ...

After meticulously renovating a 1920s houseboat into a home for two, a pair of clients reached out to multidisciplinary studio MASS Design to craft the houseboat’s crowning achievement — a bespoke ...

From Scandinavia to the US, people are finding community and freedom living on water. Dominic Lutyens looks at eight examples of remarkable houseboats across the globe. There is something rebellious ...

Though Bluefield Houseboats is based in Ireland, the design/build firm delivers worldwide and handles all aspects of the design process, from initial consultation to the final handover. All houseboats ...

What began as a place to escape the weekend crowds at Lake Tahoe has turned into a complete remodel of a houseboat and a love for the houseboat community. Patrick Hughes has become a full-time ...

If you like to fish and are intrigued by the tiny home movement and the concept of living off the grid, the Le Koroc three-float pontoon houseboat from Quebec design firm Daigno offers a unique way to ...

It's really quite astonishing that more research and development isn't being done in the area of water-borne housing: 71 percent of the Earth's surface is water, the world's already overcrowded ...