year lease of the water plot, you get 170 square metres, divided over three floors, including a 45-square-metre sun terrace. The model home has three bedrooms, two bathrooms and 2.6-metre high ceilings. The home is equipped with the newest technology, such as floor heating and an advanced cooling system integrated in the ceilings. However, with good insulation and the bedrooms located 1.5 metres below water level - cool in the summer and warm in the winter - artificial heating or cooling is hardly necessary. "Our floating homes are slated to use 15 per cent less energy than regular homes," says Sprinkeler. The remaining 62 water plots for floating homes in IJburg will go on sale early in 2008.
