2-Bed Country Cottage by Lake Immen – Swedish Holiday Home with Garden & Outbuildings



Immen Sörgården 563, 691 91 Karlskoga, Sweden, Karlskoga (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 70m² Floor area
€79,500
Country home
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
70m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Picture this: it's six in the morning, the mist is still sitting low over Lake Immen, and you're walking barefoot across cool wooden floors to put the kettle on the range cooker. The kitchen smells faintly of yesterday's wood smoke. Outside the west-facing veranda, a blackbird is going absolutely wild in the currant bushes. This is what a Tuesday looks like here — and that's before the weekend even starts.
Immen Sörgården 563 is a 1939-built Swedish country home on the edge of Karlskoga municipality, sitting on just under 2,000 square meters of established garden with direct trail access to Lake Immen's swimming spots. It's the kind of place that takes roughly four minutes to make you forget you ever owned a laptop.
The house itself runs to about 70 square meters across three main rooms, a kitchen, and a small additional bedroom that was originally used as a storage nook — which tells you something useful about the bones of the place. Swedish farmhouses from the 1930s were built to last, and this one has been kept in good condition without losing what makes it worth keeping. The wooden floors throughout are the real thing, not a renovation gesture, and the kitchen's white-waxed boards give the whole room a clean, light quality even on grey autumn days. The wood-burning stove in the kitchen is fully functional and very much in use — not a decorative relic. When the temperature drops in October, it earns its place. There's also a range cooker for proper cooking, and the kitchen layout is generous enough for a table, which matters enormously if you've ever tried to host six people in a cramped holiday kitchen.
The living spaces carry that particular Swedish quality of being simultaneously unfussy and deeply comfortable. Natural materials, considered proportions, nothing straining to impress. The attic adds further potential — it's a convertible space that could comfortably become a third sleeping area for families or a reading room for anyone who wants somewhere quiet while the children take over the ground floor.
Outside is where this property really opens up. The garden is 1,991 square meters, and it's been planted with intent: established redcurrant and blackcurrant bushes, rhubarb that comes back every spring without any encouragement, and patches of wild strawberries scattered through the grass. The covered outdoor room on the western side catches the afternoon sun right through to evening — it's where you'll spend most of your summer hours, whether that's a long dinner with friends, an evening with a glass of something cold, or simply watching the light go golden over the countryside. Sweden's summer evenings at this latitude stay bright until nearly eleven, and this veranda was built for exactly that.
The outbuildings deserve proper mention. The closest one to the house contains a shower and a pump room, which solves the practical problem of extra guests in high summer without anyone feeling the pinch on the bathroom. A second, larger outbuilding functions as a garage, barn, and upper attic — it's the kind of multi-use space that makes a country property genuinely functional rather than just atmospheric. Gardeners will use it for tools and produce. Anyone with a workshop habit will immediately start measuring. And if you've ever wanted to throw an outdoor party with actual shelter, the barn section has that covered.
The landscape around the property is Bergslagen at its most honest — old mining country that has returned entirely to forest, meadow, and waterway. The Åsjöleden trail runs through the area, and the Murstensdalen Nature Reserve is within easy reach for longer hiking days. The forests here are serious mushroom territory from late August through October: chanterelles, porcini, and funnel chanterelles grow in abundance if you know where to look, and after a few seasons you will. The lakes and waterways are plentiful — swimming, fishing for perch and pike, canoeing on quiet water. Lake Immen is a short walk or bike ride away, and on a warm July morning there are few better ways to start a day than a swim before breakfast.
For a bit of civilization, Lunedet's café and camping area is about 13 kilometers away — it's locally known for its räksmörgås, the open prawn sandwiches that are basically mandatory eating in Swedish summer. Loka Brunn spa is a similar distance in the other direction, a historic mineral spa with a genuinely good restaurant and a small hotel, and the kind of place that makes a rainy September weekend feel like a treat rather than a disappointment. Karlskoga town is 20 kilometers away for all the practical requirements — supermarkets, hardware stores, the full range. Grythyttan, home to the celebrated Grythyttans Gästgivaregård and a serious culinary tradition, is 28 kilometers. Örebro, with its medieval castle, university life, and regional airport, is about 66 kilometers — roughly 50 minutes by car.
For international buyers, Örebro Airport connects to Stockholm Arlanda and select European destinations, and the drive from Stockholm itself takes around two and a half hours on clear roads. The property is accessible year-round, which matters: Bergslagen winters bring proper snowfall, cross-country ski trails that go straight from your door into the forest, and the particular silence of a snow-covered Swedish landscape that people who experience it tend to find genuinely difficult to leave behind.
As a second home or holiday property in Sweden, this is a sensible, well-priced entry into a market where waterside and rural properties have held their value consistently. Sweden has no restrictions on EU or most international buyers purchasing property, and the running costs on a well-maintained country cottage of this size are manageable. There's also rental potential here for those who want it — the combination of lake access, forest trails, and outbuildings makes it attractive to the growing market of visitors seeking authentic rural Swedish experiences rather than hotel stays.
Key features at a glance:
- 2 bedrooms plus convertible attic space and a bonus small room
- 1 bathroom plus a separate shower in the outbuilding
- 70 sqm of living space on a 1,991 sqm garden plot
- Working wood-burning stove and range cooker in the kitchen
- Original 1930s wooden floors throughout, white-waxed kitchen boards
- Covered west-facing outdoor veranda for evening sun
- Established fruit garden: currants, rhubarb, wild strawberries
- Multiple outbuildings including garage/barn with upper attic
- Shower room and pump house in separate outbuilding
- Walking/cycling distance to Lake Immen swimming spots
- Direct access to Åsjöleden hiking trail and Murstensdalen Nature Reserve
- 20km from Karlskoga, 28km from Grythyttan, 66km from Örebro
- 13km from Loka Brunn spa and Lunedet café
- Good condition, move-in ready for immediate use as a vacation home
- Strong potential for short-term rental in summer and winter seasons
If you've been looking for a vacation home in Sweden that gives you genuine countryside living — not a sanitized version of it — this is a rare find at this price point. The combination of a solid older house, meaningful outdoor space, practical outbuildings, and immediate access to some of Bergslagen's best nature is not something that comes up often in this corner of Värmland.
Get in touch with the team at Homestra to arrange a viewing or to ask any questions about purchasing as an international buyer. Properties like this one move quietly, often before they're widely advertised. Don't let this one go to someone else who spotted it first.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 70m²
- Price per m²
- €1,136
- Garden size
- 1991m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Country home
- Energy label
Unknown
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