It is called 3 Rms, Lk Vu by Michigan-based design firm Jruiter. It is a boat concept that takes your living home to water! Yet, it is not a houseboat one finds in tourist destinations across the world which make up for floating hotels. It is more personalized in nature. You can use it over a day for a picnic on a quite river. You could call it part apartment, or an outdoor living space for its features offer just that.

The pontoon boat houses a kitchen with dining space, a living room with seating, and a basking deck for sun-bathing or just chilling. You can relax and enjoy floating on the water with your family or friends, or move over to the floating kitchen for some quick cooking. All these come with a space heater that is tucked behind a retro style vent.

Its wide open spaces give more freedom to users, as they can mould and use the boat according to their own whims.

The boat has a teak deck to give some open space for sunbathing and swimming. It also allows a view of the sunset and stars in the evening.
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Finding and buying property has become almost impossible with the rise in land prices. However, one need not give up the desire to live in a beautiful house because other options are always available.

The world of prefabs, after a frantic dose of producing popular living pieces, has taken the backseat and given up to houseboats which take the limelight today. Designed by Bernhard Urich in collaboration with design firm Confused-Direction’s in-house designers Flo Florian and Sascha Akkermann, the Silberfisch houseboat is a floating mini-country that you can take away with you, so long as there is a water body. Designed with the idea of creating a beautiful house in times when the cost of living is too high to buy or build a house, the houseboat may nevertheless be quite unaffordable for most people.

The Silberfisch houseboat has a green roof for planting veggies and the interior decor takes a minimalistic yet splendidly beautiful style. Unfortunately, you can consider the possibility of living in one only if you lived near water and one that doesn’t get too rough.

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While riding through the secluded lake may not seem exciting as docking your yacht in St. Tropez harbor. Those in a mood to craft a big splatter at lake should eye a custom houseboat, which is a 117-foot 2008 Thoroughbred Yacht cum houseboat priced at $1.75 million. At this price, the Thoroughbred 117 comes outfitted with four bedrooms, four bathrooms, a complete office, sunken kitchen, all flat panel televisions–Plasma, LCD, DLP 27” to 52”.

It also offers four refrigerators, four icemakers, two gas fireplaces, five hot water heaters, two Jacuzzi tubs, 44’ long Sun deck, wine cooler cum cabinet, four cameras for exterior monitoring and engine room and two Jacuzzi tubs. It also features a hydraulic lift master bed, a top deck mister system, a 21-foot horseshoe bar, an ostrich skin ceiling, and the list is endless. But those craving to explore oceanic beauty shall have at least four times of dough asked for this houseboat.

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