My Floating Home - Season 2

Season 2

Episodes

Southampton and Futuristic Fibreglass
In the opening episode - after 30 years of living on the River Itchen in Southampton, Gerald Pragnell sets out to build an extraordinary futuristic fibreglass home, designed and made on his doorstep by his 27-year-old son Aidan. It's constructed from scratch by carefully building up layers of fibreglass to create two hollow hull sections. Gerald visits the job site often, adding luxury details to the design and keeping the pressure on his son, but all in good humour! So will Gerald end up the proud owner of a unique modern home that he wants - and thank Aidan for a job well done?

A Thames Barge
In episode two, adventurous young professionals Ani Ridley and Charles Anderson are taking on the project of a lifetime: they've bought a rusty old oil barge 'The Duchess 1910' that they want to turn into their rustic first home. Based on the Thames in Hampton, south-west London, the couple have a tight budget that leaves them no option but to do nearly all the work themselves. With no experience, are they biting off more than they can chew? Can they make some big savings by trying to make the stove, interiors and wheelhouse themselves?

Thames, Tower Bridge
Valentin Martin and Daria Cabai run their own naval architecture company in London. Their dream is to escape their cramped apartment with their young son Yves and instead live on the Thames in their own floating home. They create their own design, converting a century-old barge into a three-tiered contemporary floating apartment. The commission is given to a specialist boat building company in the Netherlands, a country that knows a thing or two about living on the water. The biggest challenge is moving Valentin and Daria's finished new home back to London. The renovated barge must travel 290 miles across the North Sea - and some of the busiest shipping lanes in the world. After a hair-raising journey they finally make it back to England, where their eye-catching floating apartment becomes a new attraction next to Tower Bridge.

Medway and Netherlands
An ambitious barge conversion on the River Medway hits stormy weather and rising tides. And there's a deluxe home in the Netherlands with cool underwater bedrooms.

Grand Union & Portland, Oregon
London-based Karen Boswell decides to design and build a stylish houseboat to moor near the Grand Union Canal. She's gone to town on her modern industrial bathroom design, indulging in a set of twin showers as well as a bath. But space becomes a problem for the build team, who are tasked with constructing Karen's rather large bed. In Portland, Oregon, fed up with her cramped city apartment, Marsha Olson sets out to build a spacious two-storey floating home on the idyllic Multnomah Channel. Will the dramatic 10-month build prove worth the effort?

Vancouver & Seattle
Now their children have left home, Allen Lacroix and Jill Gamblen want to create a new home - one that floats on the Annacis Channel, just south of Vancouver, Canada. Their million dollar mansion will feature three outside decks; a luxury master bedroom; and a huge hot tub with amazing views. The build and the launch prove challenging. In Seattle, Joan Rosenstock is sinking her savings into a pair of brand new floating mansions with high-end finishes. The mansions must make a perilous 150-mile sea voyage in the middle of winter - before a team of tugs ease them into their moorings, as the luxury interiors finally come together.

Bristol & Vancouver Island
This time, an amphibious refurb and a 360-degree sweep in Canada

Maidstone, Kent & Portland, Oregon
A boat lover creates a micro riverpod in Kent. In Portland, Oregon, Jan and Don design a floating summer house with an open-plan living space
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