If, however, the owner has the intention of building more, smaller bedrooms, it is suggested that a corridor should run down the centre of the craft to enable the more space-efficient square rooms rather than the long rectangular ones. The addition of a platform bed will enable the storage of clothing and bedding in plastic storage boxes. The platform bed will typically take about two hours to build.

Locating useful websites for advice and supplies is relatively easy. A search query, for example, “storage on houseboats” will produce a comparatively short listing of web pages. Refining this search by specifying that only UK pages should be found will reduce the list even further. Plastic storage boxes and shelving solutions are obtainable quite widely these days.

Houseboats are comfortable, surprisingly spacious when planned carefully and relatively inexpensive. Many people consider them ideal for use as a second holiday home, for instance, or indeed as a primary residence. To use them as a primary residence, issues of storage sets and solutions must be dealt with in a very efficient manner.