Friends become stars after turning rotting, $4,000 pontoon into a gorgeous, $140,000 houseboat complete with Hamptons-style shingle and blonde wood interior
Two friends have become an internet sensation after revamping a busted pontoon into a gorgeous houseboat complete with Hamptons-style shingles and sliding glass doors. Jake Doggett, 25, and James Little, 26, snapped up the 24-foot vessel for $4,000 in June 2024 with dreams of building themselves an heirloom vacation spot for their future families in Massachusetts. 'I was the engineer, and he was the aesthetic designer,' Doggett told the Daily Mail.
- ▪Two friends have become an internet sensation after revamping a busted pontoon into a gorgeous houseboat complete with Hamptons-style shingles and sliding glass doors.
- ▪Jake Doggett, 25, and James Little, 26, snapped up the 24-foot vessel for $4,000 in June 2024 with dreams of building themselves an heirloom vacation spot for their future families in Massachusetts.
- ▪'I was the engineer, and he was the aesthetic designer,' Doggett told the Daily Mail.
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Two friends have become an internet sensation after revamping a busted pontoon into a gorgeous houseboat complete with Hamptons-style shingles and sliding glass doors. Jake Doggett, 25, and James Little, 26, snapped up the 24-foot vessel for $4,000 in June 2024 with dreams of building themselves an heirloom vacation spot for their future families in Massachusetts. 'I was the engineer, and he was the aesthetic designer,' Doggett told the Daily Mail. Over the course of 14 months, the two would strip the once-sunken pontoon to its bones and rebuild a stunning 100-square-foot houseboat that looks eye-catching on their beloved Essex Bay, about 38 miles north east of Boston.
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