Docked in Queens, New York, Kairu House is a deceptively luxe houseboat made from reclaimed shipping containers. Architect Adam Wiesehan and librarian Margaret Day live most of the year on their boat, which they designed and built over a two-year period. Even the name was a careful choice: Kairu is a Japanese word for “frog”—“apt for the couple’s amphibious home,” notes Architectural Digest. Read more