Michelsen – 34105 Western Shores Road

The Michelsen Home – 34105 Western Shores Road –

 A fabulous 1,809 sq.ft. house, built in 1992, on a 10 acre lakefront parcel with 280 feet of Lake Michigan frontage. It is located about in the middle of the private part of Western Shores Road- just north of Whitefish Point as shown on the Wojan-Cashman map of Beaver Island. It has on the interior of the parcel (SE of Western Shores Road) a beautiful 2 plus acre pond that is shown on the map as “New Wetland Wildlife Area”. The pond was deliberately dug and planted with various special wetland plants with flowers on some of the banks. It is for the exclusive use for Parcel 15’s owners and guests, and will always remain natural; it is an intermittent pond with the water level going down a lot in some dry years. This home has 3 bedrooms with 2 on the main level with a full bath and a half bath between the bedrooms and the kitchen and dining area. It also has a large, private family room on the main level with 2 couches and a futon in it; the couches could be replaced with sleeper sofas so this room might be able to be used as an additional sleeping area. There also is a secluded, but semi-private additional sleeping area with 2 double beds and a twin bed on the far east end of the upper level; in addition to the beds there are a couple of couches as well in this sleeping area, just back from the cathedral ceiling over the kitchen and dining room below. There is a large window facing east between the double beds upstairs. This upper level has its own ¾ bath. This house therefore has a lot of sleeping capacity, it would make a wonderful rental property. Other features of the home include the automatic Generac generator, 4 Fujitsu heat pump mini splits for both heating and cooling, a nice lakeside deck, good steps down to the beach, 2 outside storage sheds, 5 ceiling fans, deep well, 8 electric baseboard heating units, a metal roof just 7 years old, and more. The current land value is about $200,000. A contractor would charge you about $600,000 to build this house today. It is therefore priced to sell at just $375,000.