Vashon Forest Cabin

A 1972 cedar cabin set deep on a five-acre Vashon Island parcel, in old-growth fir and cedar that gives the house its real defining feature: the air inside smells like the forest, year-round. Two bedrooms, an open living/dining/kitchen room with a wall of west-facing glass, and a wood stove that the current owners have been running for twenty-eight years.

The cabin is not precious — the cedar siding wants attention, the kitchen counters are the laminate they came with, the bathroom is honest about being from 1972. What the cabin is is sound, set right on the land, and surrounded by a parcel that’s worth more than the structure on it. A second cleared area on the lot would support a studio outbuilding or a guesthouse if that’s the direction.

Twenty-two minutes from Vashon’s north ferry. Two-bedroom septic, drilled well, grid power. The right buyer probably already knows.