3-Bed Swedish Archipelago Holiday Home with Guest Cottage & 2,793m² Garden in Djurhamn



Bodatorpsvägen 14, 139 74 Djurhamn, Värmdö kommun, Sweden, Djurhamn (Sweden)
3 Bedrooms · 1 Bathrooms · 55m² Floor area
€269,500
House
No parking
3 Bedrooms
1 Bathrooms
55m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
You wake up to the sound of birdsong drifting through the window, the smell of pine and lake water on the morning air. Through the kitchen glass, the garden stretches out in a wash of green — old fruit trees, a flat lawn still wet with dew, and somewhere beyond the tree line, Bodatorpsträsket glinting in the early light. This is a Tuesday in July at Bodatorpsvägen 14. And it's yours.
This three-bedroom summer house in Djurhamn, on the island of Djurö in Värmdö municipality, sits on a generous 2,793 square metre plot in the Bodatorp area — one of the most sought-after pockets of the Stockholm archipelago for Swedish families and international buyers alike. The property is in good condition, ready to use from day one, and carries that rare quality of feeling genuinely lived-in rather than staged. Every corner has a story: the covered terrace where evenings tend to stretch long, the wood-burning stove that makes October here not just bearable but actually cosy, the great room that somehow fits everyone when the whole family descends in August.
The main house is 55 square metres of practical, warm living space — compact enough to run easily, large enough for real comfort. There's a kitchen with a proper dining area where long lunches happen naturally, a bedroom tucked away for quiet, a separate toilet with an incineration toilet, and a shower room with a shower cabin. The wood stove in the great room is not decorative; it's the heart of the space, doing real work on those shoulder-season weekends when midsummer has passed but nobody wants to stop coming up. The covered terrace off the main house is where the day tends to begin and end — coffee in the morning light, wine as the sun drops behind the spruce trees.
But the main house is only part of the story. On the same plot sits a guest cottage with two bedrooms and a spacious living room — already a complete, private retreat for visiting family or friends. There's scope to add a kitchenette, which would make it a fully independent dwelling, opening up possibilities for rental income or multi-generational use that a single house simply can't offer. A separate insulated friggebod — the small secondary structure that Swedish planning rules allow without a building permit — adds further sleeping capacity, useful when the cousins arrive unannounced on Midsummer Eve, which they will. An attached storage room and woodshed complete the outbuildings. In total, the auxiliary space adds another 35 square metres beyond the main house footprint.
The garden itself deserves attention. Flat, which is less common on an archipelago island than you might expect, and large enough that the children can play football while the grown-ups are nowhere near them. The gnarled fruit trees are the kind that take decades to look like that. Pick up a basket on a September morning and you understand exactly why people keep coming back here year after year, even after summer is technically over.
Water is close in every direction. Bodatorpsträsket lake is about 250 metres from the door — an easy walk even in flip-flops — and the sea is roughly 750 metres away. The children's beach at Fjällsviken, with its sandy shoreline and floating dock in shallow water, has been the site of approximately ten thousand small Swedish childhoods and remains genuinely one of the nicest spots on the island. The Bodatorp Plot Owners' Association runs a proper midsummer celebration each year, complete with the traditional dancing and herring, and their communal crayfish fishing evening in August is the kind of event that fills calendars months in advance. There's a football pitch and a boule court at the lake too.
Nearby Djurö village — just minutes away — handles the practical side of island life with more infrastructure than you'd expect. A grocery store, sports hall, library, health centre, school, and preschool make this a place people live year-round, not just a seasonal cluster of summer cabins. For evenings out, Abborrkrogen, Sjöboden, and Motorverkstan are all proper archipelago restaurants where the menu runs to fresh fish and the tables fill up fast in summer. Vita Grindarna adds beach volleyball and mini-golf to a café and restaurant setup that works for the whole family. Le Moine artisan bakery — sourdough, good pastries, outdoor seating under the trees — is the kind of local institution that makes a place feel like somewhere rather than anywhere. Glassvillan's homemade gelato and the food truck outside it have become their own summer ritual for the island's regulars.
Stavsnäs, a short drive toward the mainland, is where archipelago history gets serious. The medieval-era waterfront buildings are still standing along the harbour, the Archipelago Museum tells the story of this coastline in a way that actually holds your attention, and the home bakery at Stavsnäs serves proper food and cold beer to the Waxholmsbåten crowd. Those boats — the classic white steamers of the Waxholm company — run year-round from Stavsnäs winter harbour, connecting Djurö to Stockholm's inner archipelago and eventually to Strömkajen in the city centre. In summer, that's roughly a 90-minute boat ride to central Stockholm, which for some buyers is a feature, not a compromise. The ICA store in Stavsnäs is well-stocked and acts as a Systembolaget agent for wine and spirits — important detail.
By road, Stockholm is accessible via the E18 and Route 222 through Gustavsberg; the drive to the city centre takes around 60-80 minutes depending on traffic and the time of year. Arlanda International Airport is roughly 90-100 minutes by car, making this a genuinely practical second home for buyers flying in from across Europe.
Climate-wise, Swedish summers here are real summers — long days, genuine warmth from June through August, water temperatures at the lake and sea that reach swimming comfort by early July. Shoulder seasons in May and September bring a specific kind of quiet that regular visitors often rate above high summer. And with insulation, a functioning wood stove, and year-round infrastructure in Djurö village, there's no reason the season has to end in August.
For international buyers, Sweden's property ownership laws are open and straightforward — no restrictions on foreign nationals purchasing residential real estate. The property market in Värmdö and the Stockholm archipelago has historically held value well, driven by the limited supply of waterside and near-water properties on established islands. The multi-building setup here is a practical advantage: the combination of main house, guest cottage, and friggebod creates genuine rental potential during peak summer weeks, managed easily through any number of Swedish vacation rental platforms, while the owners retain flexibility for personal use throughout the year.
Key features at a glance:
- 3 bedrooms across main house (1 bed) and guest cottage (2 beds), plus additional sleeping in insulated friggebod
- 1 bathroom in main house with separate toilet and shower room
- 55 sqm main house plus 35 sqm auxiliary space
- 2,793 sqm flat garden plot with lawn, mature fruit trees, and forest edge
- Guest cottage with living room, scope to add kitchenette for independent rental
- Insulated friggebod for additional guests
- Attached storage room and woodshed
- Wood-burning stove in main great room
- Covered terrace ideal for three-season outdoor living
- 250m from lake Bodatorpsträsket, 750m from the sea
- Children's sandy beach at Fjällsviken within easy walking distance
- Midsummer and crayfish events run by Bodatorp Plot Owners' Association
- Year-round infrastructure in Djurö village: grocery, health centre, school
- Waxholm boats from Stavsnäs harbour to central Stockholm
Built in 1965 and maintained in good condition, this holiday home in Djurhamn is a real, functioning summer property in one of Sweden's most beloved archipelago locations — not a renovation project, not a compromise. It's the kind of place that becomes a fixed point in a family's calendar, the address people refer to simply by the island name, understood by everyone.
Get in touch with the team at Homestra to arrange a viewing or request the full information pack. Properties like this, on this island, with this much space and this many buildings, don't stay available long once the summer season starts moving.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 3
- Size
- 55m²
- Price per m²
- €4,900
- Garden size
- 2793m²
- 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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