About 15,000 people live permanently afloat on canals, rivers and
coasts in Great Britain alone, but thousands more enjoy holidaying
on boats or own them as weekend retreats in the UK and abroad. This
book will feature not only static residential boats and floating
dwellings but also those used as holiday homes and funky modern
businesses - houseboats can range from canal boats, riverboats,
narrow and wide beam boats, barges, Dutch barges, static houseboats
and even seaworthy cruisers moored in marina. The book will cover
stylish boats from the UK, North America, Europe and Australia. The
houseboats engage the reader through their history and owners'
stories, which are told in lively text and colourful images. People
fall in love with boats and own them for a variety of reasons: out
of affordability and necessity; a love of the water; closeness to
nature and the environment; or just because they yearn for a
different and more relaxed style of living/working space. This book
shows how houseboats can offer an attractive, practical and
alternative solution, as well as amazing and often idiosyncratic
solutions to living successfully in a small space. My cool
houseboat covers the following themes: stylish architectural, from
San Francisco to Prague; thrifty and eclectic, as an affordable
solution to conventional city dwelling; businesses, using
houseboats as unusual workspaces, from a book barge to an
allotment; modernist, from a Finnish floating office to an
Amsterdam watervilla; recycled, ranging from an Ellis Island ferry
houseboat to a converted minesweeper; and soulful, covering
alternative ways of life, relaxation and recreation, from a New
York City houseboat to a stylish Paris home. Word count: 25,000
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