The house
A harbor house that has kept its door open since 1924
Built for the harbor master, used for decades as a net store, and run as a small guesthouse by Ines and Tomas since 2016.
Our story
From net store to guesthouse
The house was built in 1924 for the harbor master of Ostmere Bay. When the harbor office moved to town in the seventies, the fishermen used the ground floor to mend and store their nets, and the rooms upstairs stood empty for almost forty years.
We bought it in 2015 with a leaking roof and very little money. Most of the work we did ourselves, with help from neighbors who still remembered the nets. We kept the old beams, the stone walls and the pine panels from the boat shed.
Today there are five rooms and the apartment in the old boathouse. That is as big as we want to be. It means we know every guest by name, and breakfast still fits at one long table.
Timeline
A hundred years in four dates
1924
The harbor master’s house is built from local stone, facing the jetty.
1971
The harbor office moves to town and the ground floor becomes a net store.
2016
Ines and Tomas open Ostmere House with four rooms after a year of rebuilding.
2019
The old boathouse becomes an apartment for families and longer stays.
What we care about
Small on purpose
Local first
Bread from the village bakery, eggs from the farm next door and soap made down the road. If it comes from further away, there is a good reason.
Fewer, better rooms
We will not add more rooms. Keeping it to five rooms and the apartment means we can look after every guest ourselves.
Quiet by design
Radios instead of televisions, thick walls, and a garden that closes at 22:00 so everyone sleeps well.
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Your room is ready from 15:00.
Send us your dates and we reply within a day with what is free. No booking fees, and no deposit for stays under a week.