Red Swedish Cottage with Guest House & Sea Access – Vacation Home in Östhammar



Söderängsvägen 2, 742 92 Östhammar, Sweden, Östhammar (Sweden)
1 Bedrooms · 0 Bathrooms · 40m² Floor area
€83,000
Country home
No parking
1 Bedrooms
0 Bathrooms
40m²
Garden
No pool
Not furnished
Description
The smell hits you first. Cut grass, sun-warmed pine, and somewhere behind the old apple tree, the faint salt of the Baltic coast drifting in over the garden wall. You're standing on the glass veranda at Söderängsvägen 2, coffee in hand, watching a pair of starlings argue in the birch tree. It's not even eight in the morning and you already know — this is exactly what you were looking for.
Set on a generous 3,019-square-meter plot outside Östhammar in Sweden's Uppsala County, this classic red-painted country cottage is the kind of property that doesn't need to try hard. Forty square meters of honest, well-kept living space in the main house. A separate guest cottage. A proper woodshed. A garden that took years of patient hands to get this good. And the sea — close enough that cycling to the communal bathing area takes less time than finishing your morning newspaper.
The main cottage has the proportions of a traditional Swedish sommarstuga but with enough in the right places. The living room holds both a dining table and a sofa corner without feeling cramped, anchored by a wood-burning stove that turns October evenings into something genuinely atmospheric. The kitchen is compact and functional — the kind of space where you make smörgås for everyone after a swim, not where you host a dinner party. The single bedroom is quiet and set back from the garden, and the natural light through the afternoon is the kind that makes naps feel earned.
The glass-enclosed veranda is the real heart of this property. It faces south over the garden and acts as a room in its own right from April through October — warmer than outside but fully connected to it. You can watch the light change over the flower beds from a lounger, track thunderstorms rolling in off the coast without getting wet, or simply sit with a book while the kids run circuits around the lawn. Swedish summers are short and bright and the Swedes know how to build spaces that catch every hour of them. This veranda is proof.
Outside, the garden genuinely rewards exploration. There are established fruit trees, planted shrubs with decades of root behind them, and enough flat lawn to set up a badminton net or a long dinner table when the August evenings stretch past ten. Multiple natural sitting spots have evolved over time — a stone patio here, a shaded corner under a mature tree there — and none of them feel like they were planned by a landscape architect. They feel found, which is better. Sandika Gård, the nearby farm, is a short walk along the road and sells fresh milk and locally produced goods through the summer months. You stop there on the way back from the beach. It becomes habit fast.
The guest cottage means visitors stay in comfort rather than on an inflatable mattress in the corner. Privacy for them, privacy for you. It's a detail that matters enormously once you're actually living the routine of a Swedish summer house — weekends fill up quickly, family visits overlap, and having a proper overflow space changes everything about how the property functions socially.
Toilet facilities are currently housed in a separate outbuilding with a separett composting toilet, a standard and practical arrangement for Swedish holiday properties of this type. The option to install an incineration toilet is available if preferred.
Östhammar itself sits on the edge of the Upplandskusten, a stretch of Baltic coastline that doesn't make the international glossy magazines but absolutely should. The archipelago here — the Gräsö archipelago specifically — starts just a few kilometers offshore, and boat trips through its low granite islands and narrow channels in July are the kind of thing people bring up in conversation years later. The town center is 3.5 kilometers from the property — a flat, pleasant cycle along the water — and has a proper functioning marina, several good summer restaurants, and a weekly market through the season. Grocery stores, a health center, and schools serve year-round residents and summer visitors alike.
Uppsala, one of Sweden's most historically significant cities and home to Scandinavia's oldest university, is roughly an hour's drive south. Stockholm's Arlanda Airport is under 90 minutes by car, making this property realistically accessible from most of Northern Europe on a Friday afternoon flight. For international buyers looking at Swedish vacation home ownership, Östhammar sits in a sweet spot — far enough from Stockholm to feel genuinely remote, close enough to get there when you need to.
Sweden's property purchase process is relatively straightforward for EU and non-EU international buyers, with no foreign ownership restrictions on residential real estate. The Swedish vacation home market in coastal Uppland has seen sustained interest as domestic buyers seek accessible alternatives to the more crowded — and significantly more expensive — Stockholm archipelago. A property at this price point with sea access, a guest house, and this much outdoor space represents real value in that context.
Key features at a glance:
Classic Swedish red-painted country cottage, 40 sq m, in good condition
Separate guest cottage for visitor accommodation
South-facing glass-enclosed veranda for three-season outdoor living
Wood-burning stove in the living room
3,019 sq m landscaped garden with mature trees, shrubs, and fruit trees
Cycling distance to communal bathing area on the Baltic coast
Possibility of boat mooring in the local area
Walking distance to Sandika Gård farm for fresh local produce
Storage shed and woodshed on the property
Separett composting toilet in separate outbuilding; incineration toilet option available
3.5 km from Östhammar town center, marina, and local amenities
Approximately 90 minutes from Stockholm Arlanda Airport
No foreign ownership restrictions for international buyers
Access to Gräsö archipelago and Baltic coastal recreation
The honest version? This is a small property that lives large because of everything around it. The garden, the proximity to water, the guest cottage that means you can actually have people to stay — these are the things that define a Swedish summer here, not square footage. If you've been thinking about a second home in Scandinavia, a place where summers feel like summers again and the pace shifts the moment you turn off the main road, this is worth a serious look.
Reach out through Homestra today to arrange a viewing or request a full information pack. Properties like this in coastal Uppland move quickly, and it's always worth seeing it before the season turns.
Details
- Amount of bedrooms
- 1
- Size
- 40m²
- Price per m²
- €2,075
- Garden size
- 3019m²
- Has Garden
- Yes
- Has Parking
- No
- Has Basement
- No
- Condition
- good
- Amount of Bathrooms
- 0
- Has swimming pool
- No
- Property type
- Country home
- Energy label
Unknown
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