2-Bed Winterized Holiday Home with Double Garage, 300m from Lake Gåsvikssjön – Väddö



Kallbodavägen 11, Gåsvik Väddö, 764 93 Norrtälje, Sweden, Väddö (Sweden)
2 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 50m² Floor area
€113,200
House
No parking
2 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
50m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
Step off the wooden porch on a July morning, coffee in hand, and the air already smells like pine resin and warm grass. The lake is a three-minute walk down Kallbodavägen — you can hear the kids from the bathing area before you even see the water through the treeline. That's the daily rhythm at this winterized holiday home in Gåsvik, a quiet corner of Väddö island that most Stockholmers haven't found yet, and the ones who have are fiercely reluctant to share.
Väddö sits in the outer reaches of the Roslagen archipelago, roughly 100 kilometers north of Stockholm. The drive up from the city via the E18 and Route 76 takes about 90 minutes — close enough for a Friday-evening escape, far enough that the pace of life genuinely changes the moment you cross the Edeboleden bridge onto the island. This isn't the showy part of the Swedish coast. No boutique hotels, no Instagram crowds. Just dense spruce forest, winding gravel roads, and a shoreline that shifts between sandy lake beaches and the skerry-dotted Baltic coast depending on which direction you point your bicycle.
The house itself sits on Kallbodavägen 11, on a 2,130-square-meter lot that gives you room to breathe in a way that most Swedish summer cottages simply don't. Built in 1986 and kept in good condition throughout, the 50-square-meter main building is compact but genuinely functional — the kind of floor plan where nothing is wasted. Large windows in the living room pull in southern light through most of the day, and in winter, when the garden turns white and the birches drop their leaves, the same windows frame a view that looks like a still from an Ingmar Bergman film. The fireplace does real work here from October through April, and it does it well.
Two bedrooms handle a family of four without drama. One fits a proper double bed; the other works equally well with bunks for children or a daybed-plus-desk setup for remote work. The bathroom is clean, practical, no renovation needed. The kitchen is efficiently arranged with direct sightlines to the dining area and out toward the garden — whoever's making dinner isn't exiled from the rest of the household. That open connection between cooking and living space matters more than people realize until they've spent a winter weekend here.
What really separates this property from the typical Swedish stuga is the infrastructure. A full double garage — not a carport, not a lean-to — gives you secure covered parking for two vehicles plus genuine storage capacity for canoes, bicycles, skiing gear, and everything else that accumulates when you're living an outdoor life. A separate storage outbuilding handles garden tools, outdoor furniture, and seasonal items. For international buyers who may not be on-site year-round, that kind of organized, weatherproof storage is not a small thing. Your equipment stays dry and accounted for.
The winterization is thorough. Proper insulation, a reliable heating system, and fixtures rated for year-round occupation mean you can use this as a genuine four-season property rather than a warm-weather-only retreat. Some buyers arrive in February — thick snow on the garden, ice on Gåsvikssjön, absolute silence except for the occasional great spotted woodpecker working the birch trees — and decide that's actually their favorite time to be here.
Summer, though. Summer on Väddö is something else. Gåsvikssjön is 300 meters from the front door, and the maintained bathing area there has a dock, clean sandy shallows, and the kind of water clarity you don't expect from a lake this far north. Swedish summer days this far above the 59th parallel run extraordinarily long — light until 10 PM in June, a dusk that never quite goes dark. You spend evenings on the garden terrace, mosquito coil burning, listening to nothing in particular.
The wider island rewards exploration. Väddö Kanal, a historic 19th-century waterway cutting through the island's center, is worth a morning by bicycle — the locks still operate, and the canal-side paths are flat enough for children. The village of Älmsta, about 10 kilometers south, has a supermarket, pharmacy, and the kind of hardware store where staff actually know what they're talking about. Norrtälje, the main market town for the region, is roughly 30 kilometers away and punches above its size: there's a proper farmers' market on Saturdays in the main square, good Thai food at Baan Norrtälje, and the Pythagoras museum — housed in the old steam engine factory — for rainy afternoon culture. The town also handles all municipal services, banking, and medical facilities, which matters for full-time residents and frequent visitors alike.
Autumn in Roslagen is underrated. The archipelago doesn't get the tourist traffic it attracts in summer, prices drop at the local restaurants, and the forest around Gåsvik turns that particular shade of burnt amber that makes you want to walk for hours. The elk rut runs through October, and early mornings you'll hear bulls calling through the trees behind the property. Cross-country ski trails open on Väddö through January and February when snow conditions allow — not alpine skiing, but quiet forest tracks that reward the patient skier.
For international buyers, Sweden's property purchase process is relatively accessible. There are no restrictions on foreign nationals owning real estate, and the legal framework is transparent. The property price of approximately 1,130,000 SEK sits at a realistic entry point for the Roslagen market, where demand from Stockholm families has steadily pushed values upward over the past decade. Short-term rental platforms like Blocket Bostad and AirBnB are active on Väddö during the summer season, and a winterized, garage-equipped property in this condition commands strong interest from Swedish families priced out of the more southerly archipelago. Rental management can be handled remotely through local agents based in Norrtälje.
Key features at a glance:
- 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom across 50 square meters of main living space
- Fully winterized for comfortable four-season use
- Large double garage with additional storage outbuilding
- 2,130-square-meter lot with mature trees and open lawn
- 300 meters to the maintained sandy bathing area at Gåsvikssjön
- Bright living room with fireplace and garden-facing windows
- Open kitchen-dining layout suited to family use
- Built 1986, maintained to good standard, move-in ready
- Located on Kallbodavägen 11, Gåsvik, Väddö island
- 90-minute drive from central Stockholm via E18 and Route 76
- 30 kilometers from Norrtälje town and full municipal services
- Active local cycling, swimming, fishing, canoeing, and winter skiing
- Strong summer rental demand in the Roslagen archipelago market
- No foreign ownership restrictions for international buyers
If you've been searching for a vacation home in Sweden that works in February as well as it does in July — one with real garage space, a genuine garden, and lake access you can walk to in three minutes — this property deserves your attention. Listings like this in the Roslagen region, at this price point, don't stay available long. Contact Homestra today to arrange a private viewing or to request the full property documentation and legal pack for international buyers.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 2
- Size
- 50m²
- Price per m²
- €2,264
- Garden size
- 2130m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 1
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- House
- Energy label
Unknown
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