Best of 2014: Maine floating cabin is 240 square feet of heaven

Can you imagine a more perfect little escape to dream about in the waning days of summer? We can’t. When we received an email from Maine Home+Design magazine about this charming floating cabin, dubbed Chateau Bathtub and the Redneck Yacht Club by its owners, we jumped at the chance to share it. Handmade by Foy […]

Can you imagine a more perfect little escape to dream about in the waning days of summer? We can’t. When we received an email from Maine Home+Design magazine about this charming floating cabin, dubbed Chateau Bathtub and the Redneck Yacht Club by its owners, we jumped at the chance to share it.
Handmade by Foy Brown and his wife, Louisa, the 240-square-foot cottage was the fruit of a decade of work, just barely ready for their wedding night in 2010, writes Denise Dowling in the magazine. His family’s business, J.O. Brown & Sons Shipyard, has been designing and building wooden boats for five generations.
Foy and Louisa Brown originally intended to rent it out for extra income, but — sigh — decided it was too good to share. “We realized that if you rent it to someone who gets snot-flying drunk, you’re screwed no matter how much insurance you have,” Foy Brown told the magazine. Now they live in it seasonally, tying it between North Haven piers for the winter. Yahoo