Rosies Boat for House Beautiful Magazine

A contemporary barge conversion by Rosie and Dave Rogers, photographed on location near Canary Wharf & published in the July 2021 edition of House Beautiful magazine as a four page feature.

“A journey on a dark, stormy night sounds more like the stuff of a sea shanty than the start of a successful interiors project – but this is how Rosie and Dave Rogers’ new home set sail. The couple had bought a steel shell of a wide-beam canal boat and reaching the final destination of the marina at Canary Wharf, where it’s now moored, meant a nine-hour trip. Rosie describes it as, ‘a very hairy experience, but we had to laugh about it to get through it’.

Fortunately, this wasn’t Rosie and Dave’s first time navigating choppy waters. They had been living on a boat for the previous six years, inspired by the canal in Little Venice where they previously rented a home. A new mooring every two weeks meant they explored London via its river network, but the practical challenges of constant cruising lead them to seek out a marina. Still hungry for adventure, the couple were keen to free themselves from the rental market and build their own home…”

WORDS JEN KETTLE 

PHOTOGRAPHY DAVID WILMAN