{"id":285,"date":"2010-05-26T08:08:44","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T13:08:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/gazette\/2010\/05\/26\/100526_floatinghouse\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T16:02:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T21:02:35","slug":"100526_floatinghouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/2010\/05\/26\/100526_floatinghouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Screen Door on a Submarine?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prepare to toss your preconceived notions about the compromises one has to make in order to live on the water. This is a fascinating look at a floating house<\/a> in the Seattle area [link via Twisted Sifter<\/a>]. The architectural creativity is inspiring, but I’m puzzled by one minor detail, which is best described by this floor plan drawing:<\/p>\n

\"Drawing<\/div>\n

Wouldn’t the basement on a floating house be, like, underwater<\/i>? What am I missing here? The article doesn’t even touch on this aspect of the home.<\/p>\n

I have to admit that the sub-sea basement idea is pretty cool, especially if the level contained lots of viewports (which seems not to be the case based on the drawing…just a couple in the “bunk room”).<\/p>\n

There’s also no mention of the depth of the water where the home is placed, so I suppose that the basement could actually extend into the seabed.<\/p>\n

I’d also like to know more details about how they’ve run the plumbing lines.<\/p>\n

And, finally, I’m curious about how much this cost to build…and what the owners are paying for flood insurance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prepare to toss your preconceived notions about the compromises one has to make in order to live on the water. This is a fascinating look at a floating house in the Seattle area [link via Twisted Sifter]. The architectural creativity is inspiring, but I’m puzzled by one minor detail, which is best described by this… Continue reading Screen Door on a Submarine?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-design","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8964,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/8964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ericsiegmund.com\/fireant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}