This floating holiday home gives new meaning to the term "lake cabin"; designed by Michael Meredith and Hilary Sample of design office MOS Design, the combination cabin/boat dock is located on an island in Lake Huron, Ontario, and floats atop a structure of steel pontoons.

Photography by Florian Holzherr, courtesy of MOS Design.

N.B.: This post is an update; the original story ran on January 1, 2011.