It’s hard to sell an unusual custom home. Look at the shiny, Aqua Star floating house at Southeast Portland’s Oregon Yacht Club marina. It’s been for sale for almost 1,000 days and the price dropped ...

Don’t use a carpenter’s level to establish a horizontal line when building a floating house, says Marc Even, who often has three custom homes, in various stages of completion, bobbing on the water ...

It is very cold, I don’t need to tell you, but sitting with a young filmmaker named Taylor Evans Ghosal a couple of days ago, the conversation was about city parks, a river and a giant turtle who ...