An interesting German take on lake/river shore living. Don't use land, just have a floating home.

Very nice looking small 'houses' or cabins. Not set up to truely be houseboats, but rather something that is semi-permanently docked and it is your house. So many boats and houseboats, many of them liveaboards, seem to wind up never leaving the dock - maybe it makes sense to have a nice living space and not have all the engines and motive gear taking up space.

This was a link buried down on the previous Extreme Houseboat page that I wanted to point out.