Looking for a water view? A floating house gives you the ultimate. Here is a nice introduction to floating houses in Europe:

How do they float? According to this article, it’s easy:

building floating foundations is a snap. Just fill a concrete box with some kind of plastic foam, flip it over, and you’ve got a stable platform that’s ready to float. And the more of these platforms you join together, the more stable they are. So Olthuis doesn’t plan to stop at single family homes.

“You see a floating foundation, with a garden on top of it, a swimming pool on top of it, and a house on top of it. And you can fix those floating gardens to each other, and make a floating village of it,” he says.

You can see the floating foundation in this video.

In Vancouver you can find a floating development called Seaside Village:

Seattle also has a lot of floating homes:

Here is a more futuristic floating concept:

Other House Ideas

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• A different way to build a house #25 – The Passive House
• A different way to build a house #26 – John Travolta’s Airplane House
• A different way to build a house #27 – The Sliding House
• A different way to build a house #28 – floating houses
• A different way to build a house #29 – The folding home
• A different way to build a house #30 – Billionaires’ Homes
• A different way to build a house #31 – Concrete House
• A different way to build a house #32 – Capsule Apartments
• A different way to build a house #33 – Prefab Duplex
• A different way to build a house #34 – bridge house
• A different way to build a house #35 – Tiny houses
• A different way to build a house #36 – Zero-energy and Triple-zero-houses
• A different way to build a house #37 – Build a house that is really thin
• A different way to build a house #38 – Foam and steel construction makes a quick, inexpensive, super-efficient house
• A different way to build a house #40 – The capsule
• A different way to build a house #41 – The ultra-secure house
• A different way to build a house #42: Print it
• A Different Way to Build a House #43: Add Secret Passages and Hidden Rooms to your house!
• A different way to build a house #44 – Display your finest car in the living room
• A different way to build a house #45 – Build yourself an Earthship for an ultra-sustainable green lifestyle
• A different way to build a house #46 – How to add an elevator to your home
• A different way to build a house #47 – underground and able to ride out “the apocalypse”
• A different way to build a house #48 – design your own house like an architect
• A different way to build a house #49 – A tiny apartment with moving walls becomes 24 different spaces
• A different way to build a house #50 – Build yourself a Ninja house, or add Ninja features to an existing home
• A different way to build a house #51 – An inexpensive home using recycled wood and natural materials
• A different way to build a house #52 – The flat pack house
• A different way to build a house #53 – inexpensive housing for the developing world
• A different way to build a house #54 – Log homes
• A different way to build a house #55 – Lustron homes – Amazing steel prefabs from 1950
• A different way to build a house #56 – Buckminster Fuller’s Dymaxion pre-fab house from the 1930s
• A different way to build a house #57 – Using an RV as a home
• A different way to build a house #58 – Virginia Tech’s LumenHaus
• A different way to build a house #59 – Making the most of small apartment spaces
• A different way to build a house #60 – Building custom houses from laser-cut plywood
• A different way to build a house #61 – Building a house for $3,500
• A Different Way To Build a House #62 – Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) construction
• A Different Way To Build a House #63 – An 1,000 square foot 2-bedroom apartment shrunk into 420 square feet
• A different way to build a house #64 – Fitting your whole life in a 90 square foot apartment
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