2-Bed Log Cabin Holiday Home on Mungasjön Lake, 15 min from Västerås



Borgvägen 9, 725 94 Västerås, Sweden, Västerås (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 2 Bathrooms · 75m² Floor area
€249,500
Country home
No parking
2 Bedrooms
2 Bathrooms
75m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Wake up to the sound of nothing. Not silence exactly — there's the soft lap of water against the shore fifty metres away, a woodpecker somewhere in the birches, and if it's early enough on a summer morning, the mist still sitting low over Mungasjön. That's the first thing you notice at this 1800s log cabin in Munga, a small community just outside Västerås where people still leave their doors unlocked and wave at strangers on the gravel road.
This is a genuine country home vacation property in Sweden, not a weekend renovation project or a lifestyle concept. The main cabin, roughly 75 square metres, started life in Dalarna — the heartland of Swedish rural architecture — and was relocated to this woodland plot in 1965. The logs have had sixty years to settle into the land. They look like they grew here.
Step inside and the floors are solid pine, wide-planked and warm underfoot even in autumn. The ceiling beams are exposed and chunky. The open fireplace isn't decorative; it's where everyone ends up after a long day of swimming or foraging in the forest behind the property. The kitchen has its own wood-burning stove, which means two independent heat sources before you've even thought about the covered terrace — which has its own fireplace too, facing the lake. Three fires for a 75-square-metre house. That tells you something about the priorities of whoever built this place.
The modernisation has been done without apology or excess. Fibre-optic internet was installed because working remotely from a lakeside cabin in Sweden is, frankly, a legitimate life choice. The bathroom and shower were renovated tastefully, the laundry room updated between 2018 and 2019. These aren't things you'll need to budget for. The house is move-in ready in every practical sense — or more accurately, move-in and stay-for-the-whole-summer ready.
Beyond the main cabin, the property includes a guest house built in 2008 and 2009, two floors, 37 square metres, with massive pine floors, its own kitchenette, a WC, and a small balcony. It's solid and well-proportioned, built with the same material seriousness as the original cabin. Guests get genuine independence here — their own entrance, their own morning coffee ritual, their own view. There's also a small 10-square-metre cabin from 2007 with a sleeping loft, which works equally well as an overflow bedroom, a space for teenagers who want their own walls, or a writing room when the main house gets sociable.
The plot covers 2,350 square metres of mixed woodland and open lawn, sloping gently toward the water. Rhododendrons that have been growing here for decades erupt in pink and purple in late May. Wild blueberries cover the ground under the pines — the kind you eat straight off the bush in August, not the kind you buy in a punnet. There are planted berry bushes too: currant, gooseberry. The Swedes call this allemansrätten lifestyle — the right to roam, to pick, to be in nature — and this property extends that idea all the way to your own front door.
Västerås itself is about fifteen minutes by car, which means you're not isolated. The city has a proper food market at Stora Torget on Saturdays where local producers sell smoked fish from Lake Mälaren, artisan bread, and early-season strawberries that taste like they were designed specifically for Swedish June. The old cathedral district around Västerås domkyrka dates to the 13th century and the café at Vallby open-air museum does excellent kanelbullar if you can time it right. There are also direct trains from Västerås central station to Stockholm in under an hour, making this a realistic second home for Stockholm-based international buyers who want nature within striking distance of the capital.
The climate here rewards the committed four-season visitor. Winters are cold enough to be proper — snow covers the plot from December through February most years, and Mungasjön freezes for skating by January. Spring arrives dramatically in late April, everything green at once. Summer runs long, with daylight stretching past ten in the evening in June and July. That's when you eat dinner on the covered terrace, fireplace going against the evening chill, lake going copper in the low sun. Autumn brings mushroom season — chanterelles and porcini grow in the forest behind the cabin, and the birches turn yellow in a way that feels slightly theatrical.
For international buyers looking at second homes in Sweden, the legal process is relatively accessible. Sweden imposes no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing property, and the country's transparent property registration system through Lantmäteriet means due diligence is straightforward. Property taxes here are low by European standards — the municipality fee for residential properties is capped annually, which makes running costs predictable. The property is also eligible for short-term rental through platforms popular in the Nordic market, and lakeside cabins in the Västerås area consistently attract Swedish domestic tourists, particularly from Stockholm and Uppsala, from May through September.
At 249,500 euros — or the SEK equivalent — for a multi-building lakeside property with this amount of usable space and a plot that reaches the water, the value relative to comparable properties in Germany, France, or Scandinavia's more touristed coastal areas is striking. Holiday homes in Sweden's lake districts have seen sustained demand from both domestic and international buyers over the past decade, driven partly by remote work flexibility and partly by a broader European appetite for authentic, low-density rural escapes.
Key features of this holiday home in Västerås:
- 1800s Dalarna log cabin relocated and expanded on site, 75 sq m, 2 bedrooms
- Two full bathrooms across the property
- Three fireplaces: main living room, kitchen wood stove, and covered terrace
- Fibre-optic internet throughout the main house
- Guest house (37 sq m, 2008-2009) with kitchenette, WC, and balcony
- Additional small cabin (10 sq m, 2007) with sleeping loft
- 2,350 sq m woodland and garden plot with lake frontage
- Approximately 50 metres to Mungasjön's edge
- Wild blueberries and established berry bushes across the grounds
- Covered lakeside terrace with outdoor fireplace
- Laundry room updated 2018-2019
- Renovated bathroom and shower
- Ample parking on plot
- 15 minutes by car to central Västerås
- Under 1 hour by train from Västerås to Stockholm
This is the kind of Swedish second home that doesn't come up often — a complete small estate rather than a single cabin, with accommodation for eight or more people across three buildings, genuine historical character that no amount of modern renovation can replicate, and a lake that's yours to swim in every morning from June to September. If you've been looking for a vacation home in Sweden that feels like it belongs to the landscape rather than sitting on top of it, this one is worth a serious conversation.
Reach out to the team at Homestra today to arrange a private viewing or request a full information pack. Properties on named lakes within this distance of Västerås rarely sit on the market long, and this one in particular has the kind of bones that buyers remember for years after they've missed it.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 75m²
- Price per m²
- €3,327
- Garden size
- 2350m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 2
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Country home
- Energy label
Unknown
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