My Floating Home Episodes
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As launch day approaches everyone is excited; but the tow across Vancouver’s harbor to its mooring site does not run smooth. An adventurous couple builds a nautical themed floating home in a marina with stunning sea and mountain views on Vancouver's north shore. As launch day approaches everyone is excited; but the tow across Vancouver's harbor to its mooring site does not run smooth. In this new series, presenter Mark Evans charts the exploits of individuals, couples and families who aspire to leave landlocked suburbia behind to live in stunning aquatic homes that float on water. This opening episode meets Mark and Holly in Chichester, as they design, build, launch and furnish a unique floating home in an area of outstanding natural beauty.
After meeting with him she decides she wants a home with crisp clean exterior walls creating a façade of simple beauty. Bi folding doors will open out onto a west facing deck with a glass roof and teak slat blinds. This ingenious design allows Susan to enjoy her views in privacy but also to merge the deck into the living space for entertaining on a modern and grand scale. At the back is an east facing deck that catches the morning sun for Susan to enjoy her breakfast alfresco. A build yard in Seattle is tasked to construct this massive stunning design and every detail proves to be a challenge.
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 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.
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.
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. A couple builds an experimental oversized houseboat so they can take their home with them anywhere on the vast network of canals that crisscross the UK. Janet and Dwayne have never lived on the water before – nor even driven a boat.
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.
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. 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. 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.
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.
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. "My Floating Home" follows the adventures of families who are building the ultimate waterside dream homes -- stunning "aquatic homes" that float on water. A couple builds a nautical themed floating home in a marina with stunning sea and mountain views. They want their float home to join a community of 20 floating homes on Vancouver’s North shore.
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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