I stayed in Strahan for two nights. After arriving from my journey along the Western Explorer Road I made for my accommodation in Lettes Bay.

The last time I had been in Tasmania was 5 years ago, I had opted for pubs and other such quirky places to stay, although when I'd been in Strahan last that had meant a YHA cabin which had been...less than amazing, in fact I'd rate it, along with Border Village as some of the worst places I've stayed.

This time however I decided to opt for AirBnB for my accommodation. Especially after looking at the app and finding that a lot of the places I found were on par or cheaper than a motel.
I dislike motels, and have only stayed in them on rare occasions during my road tripping. My problem with them is that are all exactly the same, almost depressingly so. They all seem to be made out of brick, they have the same ugly bed spreads, the same awful kettles and terrible tea, the same cups, the same vaguely okay towels and crisp sheets.
It's all so terribly boring and samey.
I would much rather somewhere interesting and quirky than boring.

I admit The Boat Shed was my second choice, after the first one I was looking at was booked out. But The Boat Shed at $100 a night was much more reasonable than my first choice (which was closer to $173 a night).

The Boat Shed is a fantastically rustic little house basically on the water's edge of Lettes Bay, it has water views, albeit from only a few rooms.
It's a rambling state, supposedly originally two buildings that had at some point in their life been joined together to form two.

Doorway at the end: Bathroom. Right doorway: Lounge. Also a bed 'room'.

What it isn't really defines it, it's an extremely unique place to stay and far too big for just myself.
There is one main bedroom and then two other 'rooms' with beds in them. I say it this way as they are more like larger corridors with beds in them on the way to the bathroom.

There's also a kitchen with and adjoining dining room, plus a lounge room.

Alternate view of the corridor / one of the bed 'rooms'

You can clearly see that the house started off small with the original part of the house being the first bedroom, kitchen and dining room. These are the most defined of the spaces in the house, after that it becomes a little more rambling.
With the lounge room being the next most well defined of the spaces, given the location of the bathroom adjacent to the lounge room, I do wonder if this at one point was the kitchen, as on the AirBnB listing it says there's also a laundry (though I never explored the outbuildings, of which there was also a wood storage shed).

Most of the doorways were lower than a standard doorway, but none so low that I was in danger of whacking my head on them.

The newest item in the house was a pretty new combustion wood heater, this was in the dining room, and as the walls were only half height between the kitchen and the rest of the house there's a good possibility that it could heat a majority of the house in the cooler months. There were also bar heaters tucked away in an side room, should it get chilly.

The bathroom was dated, but functional. There was a bit of a smell of mould / damp, but I assumed that was just a combination of the age of the building and there being wood floors, polished at some point in their lives in a bathroom setting. Not something you usually want in a bathroom.

There were also plug in incense scent things in the kitchen and adjoining bedroom / corridor to the bathroom, me being paranoid about things plugged in and being warm I turned them off. Also the smell was somewhat overpowering.

For the two days I was there the temperature began on a 25º day and then the following day it was down to a 17º. The first night was fine, albeit a little warm, the second night however was freezing, I didn't think it warranted lighting the wood burner (although the following morning I thought very differently). I did have to go for a hunt through the house to find an extra blanket, I found a cupboard that I thought might contain blankets but it was locked (and despite the bunch of keys I had, none would open the cupboard). I did eventually find a blanket in the lounge which I laid on the bed, which provided the warmth necessary.

Kitchen wise there was a kettle, microwave and fridge, all the necessary things needed. I only made cups of tea, there was tea and sugar provided (although I now travel with my own tea bags).
There was UHT cream in the fridge, but no milk. It would have been nice for some milk to be there, but, no matter. I wouldn't have used enough milk to buy my own and wasn't concerned having it black.

One final thing, which I forgot to take a photo of, but there's a photo on the AirBnB listing. The lean-to carport looks like it won't fit a large car. But I managed to park my Ford Ranger in there no problem, I will admit when I drove it in I was a little worried that it wouldn't fit; being too high. But it fit in without any problems. I could only realistically however open one side of the car doors. I just drove in close and got everything out of the driver's side.