5131 Maple Grove Road, Charlevoix

 

  • Six bedrooms and seven and one-half baths.
  • Approximately 15,000 square feet.
  • Lot is approximately 8 acres.
  • 440’ of water frontage on Lake Charlevoix.
  • Extensive landscaping, retainer walls, and plantings by Drost Landscaping.
  • Enhanced several streams and ponds on the property by Drost Landscaping.
  • Imported many yards of sand in for the beach.
  • Two bridges for stream crossings. One bridge is 40 feet long that extends from the garage.
  • Infinity edge pool and hot tub that overlooks Lake Charlevoix.
  • All Windows are Kolbe and Kolbe (divided light).
  • Roof is hand split cedar shake.
  • Extensive wainscoting throughout the home.
  • Cresteron lighting controls.
  • Five furnaces (Forced Air/AC/Humidifier).
  • In-floor heat in the garage.
  • Elevator.
  • Security system.
  • Sound system.
  • Pass through butler’s pantry.
  • Hardwood floors are Carlisle wide plank hickory.
  • Each bedroom has its own private bath with tiled shower.
  • Master bathroom has its own his and her closets and bath including a tiled shower with Petoskey stones.
  • Apartment above the garage with turret and full kitchen.
  • Copper gutters.
  • Partial steel structure.
  • Cellulose insulation in walls and blown in insulation in the trusses.
  • Gray bead board is sprayed with a lacquer.
  • Cabinets are custom built by a Chicago Mill on-site.
  • Granite countertops throughout.
  • Extra thick interior doors.
  • House is three stories including lower level, main floor and second story.
  • Lower level consists of 3 bedrooms each with their own full baths, a kitchenette, beautiful temperature controlled wine cellar, exercise room with lake views and its own bath and sauna, and a large great room with big screen TV and pool table.
  • Main level has extensive elevated decking with IPE decking. IPE is a Brazilian hardwood that looks similar to Redwood. It has a high resistance to bending and is a very strong, tough, resilient wood. It is very dense and will not splinter like pressure treated and cedar decking will as it ages. All decking is installed with hidden fasteners every board is perfectly smooth and you see no nail or screw holes. There is also an exterior fireplace on the main level deck along with a quaint grilling station on the lee side of the wind convenient to the kitchen.  The deck also contains several open grids that allow light to pass through to the lower level. They were designed to replicate old ship’s grates.
  • Main floor features 5 full masonry fireplaces with custom screen doors. There are no “zero clearance” pre-manufactured fireplaces in this home. All are old school, full masonry fireplaces.
  • The main floor includes a large great room with its own commanding fireplace. The great room has a barrel vaulted ceiling with custom built trusses and a fir bead board ceiling. It also features a locally custom built sailboat hull hung upside down from the ceiling with hidden lighting in it.
  • The Study is a very large and comfortable room with views to both the lake and the stream and bridge on the back of the home. It features endless custom built bookshelves, cabinets, desk, its own fireplace, and a large flat screen TV. It also has direct to a traditional screen porch, which has its own fireplace as well.