Plath Float Home

Plath Float Home

Seattle, WA

Typically float homes are built on site, in the water. The Plath float home was constructed in a ship yard in Port Townsend, lifted into the water and towed with a tugboat to Wards Cove on Lake Union. Unique features of this float home include exterior siding made of tree bark strips, a green roof, a custom-designed tongue and groove roof structure with mahogany finish on the bottom that serves as the interior ceiling, and the metal railing that functions as a structural truss.