As stay-at-home orders due to the ongoing pandemic have forced many of us to learn to love solitude and become reacquainted with our homes, one couple's life has remained virtually unchanged.
Freedom Cove is a 25-minute boat ride away from the closest town, and don't even think about hopping in a car. "The only option to get here is by water," Adams says. "There are no road accesses. The water is our highway."The whole structure is the size of two city lots and weighs 1 million pounds, floating freely on the ocean.
The compound has everything you could possibly think of and more: a dance floor, an art gallery, a candle factory, four greenhouses, six solar panels, and access to a small waterfall that provides constant running water.The couple has even figured out their own waste management system.They installed a floating tank to, in Adams' words, "deal with the affluence."
"I was hoping to make a lot more money as an artist. We could never buy real estate, so we had to make our own." King and Adams gathered the wood and used it to build the bones of what would become their future home.As they continued to further grow their home, the couple followed with their precedent of only using recycled and salvaged materials.
"We had all kinds of things like food processors and items that would require a lot of electricity," King remembers.They had no choice. The first iteration of their floating home had no running water and no power."Living out here, you can't just get instant anything," King says. "We can't just order a pizza ... we can't just go to the corner store ... You have to do the work to get what you want, if you want it.
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