A Creative Urban Homestead in East Tacoma
Welcome to Maker’s Acre, a 3-bedroom East Tacoma rambler where the house is only the beginning.
Pull a chair into the sun. Leave the easel out overnight. Start the seeds. Tune a guitar. Bring home extra lumber. Let the dog run the yard. This is a home for people who need more than rooms. It is for people who need places to do things.
Maker’s Acre has an easy rhythm. One level. Three bedrooms. Two baths. Bright rooms above grade. South and east light moving across the floors. A living room fireplace gives the home a true gathering point.
It is the kind of space felt in simple, human terms: the couch by the window, the morning light in the kitchen, the fireplace, the bedroom that works for guests, a child, an office, or a quieter corner of the household.
Recent improvements make the first chapter feel easier: fresh interior painting, new flooring, updated kitchen appliances, improved insulation, a new electric water heater, up to date finishes and a newer roof. The work has been done so you can start living, cooking, planting, making and settling in.
The rambler layout matters, too. No stacked living. No basement dependence. No complicated daily flow. Groceries come in, dinner gets made, rooms stay useful and life stays on one level.
Maker’s Acre
At the end of a quiet street, behind its gate, the property opens into a larger way of living: a one-level home, detached art studio, garage/workshop, storage shed, wellbuilt chicken coop, blueberry orchard, rose garden and paved firepit patio. A Saturday can turn into three different projects before lunch.
The Home
Maker’s Acre has an easy rhythm. One level. 3 BR/2BA. Bright rooms above grade. South and east light moving across the floors. A living room fireplace gives the home a true gathering point. Fresh interior painting, new flooring, updated kitchen appliances, improved insulation, a new electric water heater, up to date finishes and a newer roof. The work has been done so you can start living, cooking, planting, making and settling in.
The Studio
The studio is the heartbeat of Maker’s Acre. Set apart from the house, it gives you the kind of separate creative space people usually must rent, build, or dream about. Open the door and the room lifts: soaring ceiling, dual skylights, north-facing picture windows, sink, storage racks, custom lighting, heat, ventilation, separate internet wiring and a porch for stepping outside between projects.
The Grounds
Step outside and the property opens into garden work, berry picking, poultry keeping and nights around the firepit. The yard is not just lawn around a house. It is a working, growing, edible, gatherable place with 18 mature blueberry plants, rhododendrons, roses, sunny planting areas, a chicken coop and a paved firepit patio. It invites bare feet in topsoil, berry-stained fingers and Sunday mornings that start with eggs from the coop.