The Farmhouse Where Rainier Shows Up Every Night

Some properties you market. Others you finish.

This one, at 20121 SE 344th Street in Auburn, needed a little of both. It’s a custom farmhouse built in 2019, on the market for the first time ever, sitting on 2.75 private acres with Mt. Rainier framed between the trees out the back fence. The home was already special. My job was to make sure the property around it matched, and I’ll get to that part of the story. First, the house.

A Custom Build That Still Feels Brand New

You can spot a true custom home from the driveway. White board-and-batten siding, a deep front porch, rooflines that were drawn for this lot instead of copied from a plan book. The home sits well off the road, so the first thing you feel pulling in is privacy.

Inside, it lives light and open. Lofted ceilings and oversized windows pull daylight through every room, and light-oak floors carry the main level. The kitchen is the kind buyers photograph: a real working island, custom range hood, pendant lighting, and double ovens for anyone who actually cooks. It flows straight into a great room with a soaring ceiling, then into a dining area where sliders open the whole back of the house to the patio.

The primary suite is on the main level, and it earns the word suite. Freestanding tub. Marble floor. The kind of bathroom that makes the morning slower in a good way. Upstairs, a bonus room and loft give a family room to spread out.

Four bedrooms, four baths, nearly 4,000 square feet. A 50-year roof overhead and a completed pre-inspection on file, because buyers at this level deserve answers before they ask.

The View That Sells the Place

Plenty of homes in South King County claim a mountain view. Usually that means a sliver between rooftops on a clear day.

Not here. Mt. Rainier sits framed between the trees beyond a white-fenced pasture, and it shows up for every sunset. The backyard was designed around that sightline: a paver patio for entertaining, a gazebo for shade, a fire pit for the nights the temperature drops. The dining sliders open the house to all of it, so summer dinners drift outside without anyone deciding to move.

This is what 2.75 acres buys you that a view lot in a subdivision can’t. The mountain, the pasture, the quiet, and a flat, usable yard wrapping the home.

The Finishing Touches: Landscaping and a Brand-New Driveway

Here’s the part of this listing I’m proudest of, because it’s the part we built.

When I took this property on, the backyard was already dialed in. The previous owners understood entertaining, and the patio, gazebo, and sightlines needed nothing from me. The front half of the property was a different story. The perimeter had grown wild, and the edges had lost the clean lines that make a custom home read custom.

So we went to work. My crew caught up the landscaping across the property, tamed the overgrowth, and reframed the beds and borders so the home presents the way it was built to. Then we made the bigger move: a full blacktop driveway, contracted and funded through my Premier Listing Program, running from the street up the approach, through the RV parking, and around the home. It’s being installed before closing, at no cost to the seller, repaid only at closing out of the value the work creates.

That’s also why some of the marketing photos show the finished driveway as a rendering, clearly disclosed. The finished driveway is part of what the buyer is purchasing. The new owner takes possession of the completed property, not a project.

One more practical note buyers love: that RV parking runs the depth of the property. Boats, trailers, the works.

The Details

• 20121 SE 344th Street, Auburn, WA 98092
• 4 beds, 4 baths, 3,980 square feet
• 2.75 acres, built 2019, first time on the market
• Mt. Rainier views, paver patio, gazebo, fire pit, white-fenced pasture
• RV parking, new blacktop driveway installed before closing
• 50-year roof, pre-inspection completed
• Offered at $1,749,000, NWMLS #2530508

Come See It at Sunset

I can describe the kitchen and list the acreage, but the moment that sells this custom farmhouse in Auburn WA is standing on the patio when the light goes gold and Rainier turns pink over the pasture. That part you have to see in person.

Reach out to schedule a private tour, and if you’re a homeowner wondering what this kind of finishing work could do for your own sale, contact me today. The same crew that finished this property is ready to finish yours.