Some ideas…

So here are a few of the houseboats I have seen. My boat should be a place where I can live so the basic list of things I would like on it are the ones you would find in a home:

Kitchen
Bathroom
Bedroom
Livingroom/Office/ETCRoom

And then I would like a lot of deck space where I can set chairs in summer and maybe a BBQ.

It is important for me that the space have a lot of light. The gardening may have to be done near the mooring.

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Now read this

The first step: Read about floating things and join a boat building forum. The choice was BoatDesign.net and here was my first posting: http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/boat-design/starting-scratch-houseboat-50629.html Insights of the first approach: There seem to be–generally speaking–two ways to build the hull: pontoons and scow. Pontoons are… well, pontoons. Scow is a box and the floating principle is much like what you find when you put an empty bowl in a tub full of water… it floats. The consensus seems to be that the scow approach is cheaper and easier–particularly for a beginner. So it seems that it will be scow. Now, instead of worrying how big the hull should be, I will start by designing the house paying attention to keeping the weight down. Ultimately, I hope that it will be easier to figure out the size of the hull for the house I want than the house I want for the scow I thought I would build.