Caleb: Hold the line, please buy yagara The houseboat arrived as a shell that the couple gamely moved into immediately; they spent the first two months sleeping on a tiny mattress in their bedroom’s walk-in wardrobe. The project took more than two years to realise, but the result is a home that has been masterfully tailored to suit both its owners and the location. ‘We have all our entertainment right here – a cinema, a sauna, and the different outdoor spaces in summer,’ Beets says. ‘And what is brilliant about living on the water is that we can turn the music up without worrying about the neighbours.’