AirBNB gets a lot of ink. Some people love it, some people hate it. We’ve all heard the horror stories, but it’s still a pretty cool idea. And every so often I hear about a rental so awesome, so fascinating, so magical that I almost get up my nerve to give it a shot. This is one of those properties.
This is the two bedroom/one bath floating house designed by Steve and Nick Tidball, creative directors of the TBWA agency. The adorable, traditional-looking blue house includes its own garden with an apple tree, and one lucky AirBNB contest winner got to live in it while floated it up and down the River Thames for a week. Can you imagine?
The house rules are pretty cute, and include the following restrictions:
•No swimming in the Thames
•No Floating House parties
•No acts of piracy
I think it looks like a blast. I wonder what they’re doing with it now?
Steve and Nick Tidball’s Floating House. Photo: Mikael Buck
?
Share:
My OBT 
June 6, 2015 at 7:08 am
OMGosh! How adorable and unique
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 11:34 am
Isn’t it the cutest? I want to go to there!
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 7:24 am
Damn. My house is on solid ground and is nowhere near this cute! I love it.
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 11:34 am
I know what you mean. We’re on the water, but with the exception of the occasional hurricane, we’re not in it. So jealous!
LikeLike
June 6, 2015 at 2:32 pm
And I am water view (across the street from it), not water front. Which is several hundred thousand dollars different!
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 4:57 pm
In my case, it’s probably several hundred thousand dollars less.
http://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1307-Cross-Bay-Blvd-Broad-Channel-NY-11693/2104585263_zpid/
LikeLike
June 6, 2015 at 8:24 am
That looks awesome! Maybe one day I might try it ^^
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 11:35 am
You should, and you should take me with you. I can carry your bags or something!
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 11:46 am
ok ^^
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 10:54 am
I would totally try this if available on AirBnB!
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 11:35 am
I would, too!
LikeLike
June 6, 2015 at 11:52 am
What an awesome property. That would be a great travel experience. One of my former students lives on a houseboat on the Thames with her husband and baby. Despite being artists, their place is not anything like this.
I’ve only recently heard about AirBNB (behind the times as always) as a friend who lives in London is using it to list her house while she goes on vacation. I don’t think I could handle the worry.
I had actually
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 11:53 am
No idea where that closing sentence fragment came from. Weird.
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 12:14 pm
I wondered about that!
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 12:22 pm
My phone may require an exorcism.
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 12:39 pm
Whoopsie.
LikeLike
June 6, 2015 at 12:14 pm
I feel the same. It would be great to make some money from renting our house, but the stress of something going wrong, someone getting hurt, something going missing, is more than I could bear.
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 12:24 pm
I also don’t trust the hygiene of other people. First thing I do when we rent a holiday cottage is run all crockery, utensils etc through the dishwasher and take disinfectant wipes to the bathroom to purge it of other people’s malingering skank. I also take cleaning products to hospitals with me though so there’s that.
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 12:39 pm
We could definitely travel together.
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 12:39 pm
I carry Lysol in my purse.
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 12:41 pm
Ha ha! We could definitely be travel companions.
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 12:50 pm
Love it! 🙂
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 1:32 pm
Yay!
LikeLike
June 6, 2015 at 12:55 pm
I want that. I used airbnb to find my Catalina vacation spot. Everything was perfect and just like the photos showed. I’m looking for my next vacation spot on airbnb.
Thanks for sharing.
LikeLiked by 1 person
June 6, 2015 at 1:34 pm
Really? I keep thinking I should try it, but Beloved is less adept at rolling with surprises on vacation, and I don’t want a problem.
LikeLiked by 1 person