Malvern House
Asheville, NCest. west wnc · 35.5°N 82.5°W

A sober-living
house in Asheville.

Recovery is the work. The mountains are the bonus. Move in Tuesday, trail run Saturday.

Apply to live here Take
the tour
Blue Ridge mountain ridges at golden hour, viewed from a wraparound porch with an Adirondack chair and coffee mug on the rail.

Three things this house is good at

find your bearings

A bed, a town, and a rhythm that all do their job.

01 — The house

A house that feels like a house.

A real kitchen. A wraparound porch with two rocking chairs. Couches that fit four. A fireplace that works.

02 — The mountains

A town that feels like a fresh start.

West Asheville. Walk to the French Broad. Pisgah and DuPont under thirty minutes. Fourteen meetings within a mile.

03 — The work

A rhythm that feels like a life.

Coffee. Meetings. Work. Trail. Dinner. Lights out. The structure carries the recovery, not the other way around.

The house

A porch and everything you’d actually need.

Lived-in living room interior with a stone fireplace, leather couch and Pendleton-style blanket, books on a wooden table, plants, and a window framing distant Blue Ridge mountains.
Kitchen
Electric range, big island, the dishwasher actually runs.
Decks galore
Rocking chairs, couches, the great outdoors.
Common
Couches, yard, fire pits.
Laundry
Free. No quarters, no app, no waiting.
Wraparound porch at blue-hour dusk in West Asheville with hanging amber string lights, two Adirondack chairs facing a small fire pit.

Asheville

blue ridge, parkway mile 384

The river, the trails, and a meeting on every corner.

West Asheville. You won’t need a car for the first month. You’ll want one by the third.

you are here
Hand-drawn ink-and-paper map of West Asheville with the French Broad River, Pisgah and DuPont trails, a star marking Malvern House, and nearby landmarks (Trader Joe's, Mission Hospital, AA + NA, Downtown).
approx — exact address shared after a fit conversation
10 min walk
French Broad River
1 mile
14 AA + NA meetings
25 min
DuPont, Pisgah trailheads
12 min
Mission Hospital
At the corner
WNC bus stop
8–15 min
Trader Joe’s, Aldi, Whole Foods
The French Broad River bending through West Asheville on a soft overcast morning, framed by sycamores and rhododendrons with two distant kayakers and Blue Ridge ridges fading into haze.

Norms

house rules

The rules are short. We mean them.

  1. 01Sobriety is the floor. Random drug and alcohol testing is a condition of living here.
  2. 02Peer-led house meeting once a week. Accountability and house business, not therapy. Attendance required.
  3. 03Active in recovery work you choose and arrange yourself: meetings, a sponsor, IOP, therapy.
  4. 04A job, school, or active job search after week two.
  5. 05Quiet hours 10pm to 7am. Guests during posted windows.
  6. 06Length of stay: 90 days minimum. After that, stay as long as you keep the rules.

What it costs

plain numbers

No starting-at, no asterisks.

$220

per week, housing fee

$250

move-in fee, one time

$0

utilities, wifi, laundry

The weekly housing fee covers your bed, the porch, the kitchen, the wifi, the washer, the dryer, and the yard. It’s self pay: we don’t bill insurance, Medicaid, or Medicare. We are a recovery residence, not a treatment center.

Fit

honest about it

Who this works for, who it doesn’t.

Two adults sitting on a wooden porch step in West Asheville, mid-conversation and mid-laugh, one with a coffee mug and one with a paperback book, mountain ridges out of focus behind them.

✓ Yes

You’re between treatment and back-to-life. You’ve done detox or IOP and you want a place where the next chapter doesn’t happen on your old couch.

You’re ready to work — a job, a sponsor, a routine, a body that isn’t exhausted.

✕ Not yet

You need medical detox, psychiatric stabilization, or 24-hour medical supervision. Malvern is not a treatment center and we’re not staffed for it.

You’re not ready for testing. Sobriety is the floor. We test, and we mean it.

Apply

y’all come on

Move in
Tuesday.
Trail run
Saturday.

One business day to first call. Most residents move in within ten days of first contact.

Apply to live here Or call (828) 222-3666