The woods start where the deck ends. Pour your coffee, sit outside, and listen. You'll hear more birds than cars. Your home away from home: five bedrooms on a quiet cul-de-sac in Stoneham, fifteen minutes from Boston, backing straight into the woods.
Unpack your suitcase and you're home. Six beds, new memory foam, no exceptions - two kings, four queens. Blackout curtains in every bedroom, so you sleep until you're ready, not until the sun says so. Five smart TVs. Tasteful artwork on the walls, not the stock kind. A large dining room for the whole group at once. Central air and heat, so the house is right in July and January both. Two-car attached garage, straight into the kitchen. The kitchen itself is the real thing - granite counters, an island, Martha Stewart Living cabinetry, a full stainless suite, and cookware with actual heft to it. Cook a real dinner here, the kind you'd make at home, in a kitchen built to keep up.
Four separate workstations, one with a standing desk, for the trip that's half work and half not. Close the laptop, and the WiFi is fast enough to hold a video call in one room and stream a movie in the next. The primary suite has a king bed, a six-foot soaking tub, and a rainfall shower - the kind of bathroom you linger in.
Then there's the basement.
Head downstairs after dinner and the night changes shape. A full private suite down here - bedroom, bathroom, its own kitchenette - gives part of your group somewhere to disappear to without leaving the house. The rest of you take over the game room: foosball, an arcade game, air hockey, table hockey, board games, puzzles, Boston sports memorabilia on the walls. Kids on one end, adults on the other, cards on the table, nobody checking the clock. This is the room where the trip actually happens.
Outside, the deck is composite, trellised, and yours alone - the forest is the only view. Stoneham's 2,200-acre Middlesex Fells Reservation starts a five-minute walk from the front door: trails, Spot Pond for kayaking and canoeing, a hike out to Bear Hill Tower if you want the long view over the treetops. Stone Zoo is a mile and a half away. In town, Gaetano's has been making Stoneham's best pizza since 1995. The Stones Common House & Kitchen down the road does the kind of dinner you don't have to dress for. Christopher's and Andrea's Taqueria cover lunch. Redstone Shopping Center and a nearby Whole Foods cover groceries. The Greater Boston Stage Company runs live theater a few minutes away, for the night you want out of the house.
Boston is ten miles off - about fifteen minutes by car outside rush hour, longer on Celtics nights. Faneuil Hall and Boston Common are twenty minutes in. Salem is close enough for a day trip.
Bring the dog. Bring the kids - crib, high chair, and toys are already here. Sink into a bed made up with real linens, cook in a kitchen that's actually stocked, and let the woods do the rest.
Message us. We'll help you plan the stay.
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Visitors welcome; only registered guests may stay overnight
No parties or events
No smoking indoors — $500 fee for violations; smoking permitted outside
No pets unless pre-approved
No illegal activity
Any damage will be charged to the guest at cost of repair
