It’s all about the craft at this floating office on the Thames

Not a boring meeting room

Table hand made from 300 year old oak beamss

A series of original pieces for a contemporary business, progressive, beautifully designed and crafted. The furniture is designed to give an individuality to a meeting room whilst reinforcing the heritage of the long established family business.
For seating we have up cycled mid century Danish chairs and a sofa, the sofa has been completely reupholstered and covered with a Designers Guild wool fabric set off with Bute Kilmory piping. The chairs have been upholstered with a Designers Guild tweed fabric.
300 year old oak barn beams from Somerset provided the material for the table. Our table maker has cut planks and selected the best grain to give a richness to the table top. Once cut the oak planks are left to air dry for several months before the table is hand made.
We can make similar pieces for you, sofas from £2,250, chairs from £500 each and tables from £2,500.

Up-cycled Mid Century sofa to watch the River Thames go by.

Eco Floating Homes featured in the Financial Times

Financial Times 9 May 2015

Clarissa Sebag Montefiore features our St Katharine Docks and Cotwolds homes in her Financial Times article about workshop built homes.

View from the floating home over East Dock, St Katharine Docks, London

Wood “the world’s most advanced building material”

Cedar clad timber floating office , the Floating Hub at St Katharine Docks

Why I love building with wood.
Wood the world’s oldest building material is now the most modern, thanks to developments in processing and manufacturing highly engineered timber components. We are not restricted to building with just beams, posts and planks there is a whole range of sophisticated, high performance engineered products available. And as the thousands of medieval and Tudor timber houses around the country show timber will last as long as concrete or masonry.
Timber is particularly suited to modern workshop construction methods which deliver high quality buildings that require minimal time on site causing less disruption. This is good for delivery schedules, budgets and neighbours.

Is there enough wood to build all the houses we want?
Professor Chad Oliver of Yale University in a report (March 2014) for the Journal of Sustainable Forestry estimates the world’s forests contain about 385bn cubic metres of wood, with an additional17bn cubic metres growing each year. Only 3.4bn cubic metres are harvested annually mostly for fuel. There is enough and building with wood instead of concrete, bricks and steel would drastically cut global emissions.
High quality, high performance buildings that lock in carbon storage, this is a winning very eco friendly way to build.

St Katharine Docks Eco Floating Home Featured in The Times

The Times "Bricks and Mortar" May 23 2014

One of our eco floating homes has been featured in The Times’ property supplement, Bricks & Mortar. Eco floating homes were commissioned by Prestbury Investments to bespoke design an eco floating home and install it within the prestigious and historic East Dock at St Katharine Docks, London
We use sustainable and low maintenance materials and capture the essence of a modern waterside lifestyle through the use of expansive decks and large opening doors.
We have designed the eco floating homes to be constructed, installed and complete within 4 months of order.

Autumn Eco floating home at St Katharine Docks

Largest floating home launch

24 Metre floating home hull leaving the workshop

Eco Floating Homes are to launch their largest eco home. Pictured is the 24 Metre hull for one of Eco Floating Homes latest projects.

The hull is designed to accommodate all of the eco technology and equipment so this home can operate off-grid. We aim to deliver smart sustainable designs, minimum energy bills, maximum comfort and a small carbon footprint.

Flood Proof Homes

As the floods continue it’s time to learn.
A key strategy in high risk areas is to build resilient homes.  Holland has decades of creating flood proof homes, let's learn from their success.
Our floating homes and sustainable pavilions use permeable surface infrastructures and do not require the hard surface tarmac and concrete of modern housing developments, which have proved to be a major cause of the Thames Valley floods.
The rain absorbing green roofs we use have also been shown by the Dutch to slow the amount of water reaching drainage systems and rivers.

Floating home in Day of the Doctor

During Doctor Who’s ‘Day of the Doctor’, our latest Eco Floating Home at St Katharine Docks appeared centre shot as The Doctor flew to Trafalgar Square.
Exterminate all thoughts of traditional living.

Floating office launches Clipper Race

Clipper Race Headquarters

Our recently delivered floating office has been used to launch this years International Clipper Race. The race departed from London’s St Katharine Docks and will tour the world through 16 stages before finally arriving back to London.

Eco Floating Homes feature in Materials World Magazine

Homes on Water. Eoin Redahan talks to Eco Floating Homes founder Mike in "Materials World" from the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining.

Materials World July 2012

How can you live like Ratty in The Wind and the Willows, address your vitamin D deficiency and stay dry when Antarctica melts?
Buy a floating house (from Eco Floating Homes)
Even if you ignore the supposed therapeutic benefits of living by water, the argument for floating habitats convinces more as sea levels rise. In 50 years, the Pacific Ocean may have swallowed the Polynesian Islands of Tuvalu. The Maldives, which are just 1.5m above sea level at their highest point, could easily go the way of Atlantis, too. The River Thames flooded its banks in 1947. What if it were to happen again? The science behind floating homes is neither callow nor tentative, effective, durable models have been built for a long time.