This floating holiday home gives new meaning to the term “lake cabin”; designed by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of design office MOS Design, the combination cabin/boat dock is located on an island in Lake Huron, Ontario, and floats atop a structure of steel pontoons.
Photography by Florian Holzherr, courtesy of MOS Design.
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![](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img/sub/uimg/05-2012/700_floating-house-sunny-skies-trees.jpg)
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![](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img/sub/uimg/05-2012/lake-huron-house-boats-under-house.png)
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![](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img/sub/uimg/05-2012/700_floating-house-bath-wooden.jpg)
![](https://media.gardenista.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/img/sub/uimg/05-2012/700_floating-house-at-night.jpg)
N.B.: This post is an update; the original story ran on January 1, 2011.
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