10117 Hawthorne Lane

There's a hush that settles in past the tree line here, log walls, the sound of the river somewhere close, and enough distance from the road to make the outside world feel very far away. Six homes share this stretch of the Shiawassee, each with a deeded interest in the water and a private road that keeps the whole setting to itself. This hand-built log home is one of them, set on wooded acreage that does most of the privacy work on its own. The main floor does the thing that matters most: every room a normal day actually requires- the primary suite, kitchen, living and dining rooms, and laundry- lives on one level. Wide hallways, an accessible closet, main-floor laundry, and a primary bath built around a zero-entry, dual-head shower carry that thinking all the way through. Then the great room breaks the pattern on purpose, rising to a vaulted, log-beamed ceiling around a two-story stone fireplace. Whoever built this home solved a problem most people never think to solve: a built-in dumbwaiter loads firewood straight from outside to the hearth. No open door, no lost heat, no unwanted company finding its way in with the wood. Below, a finished, egress-compliant walkout level is a real in-law suite, not an afterthought: a kitchen, a living room built around a second wood-burning fireplace, a bedroom, a full bath, and walk-out access to the yard, all separate from the rest of the house. Outside, the porches do double duty. A covered porch spans the full front of the home. A screened porch, with a swing hung the width of it, spans the full back. Upstairs, a true second level with its own dormers rises above the main living space, a loft with its own stairway, ready now for a studio or a home office, and, pending a code review, for more finished rooms after that. From the loft, additional storage opens up over the garage. The outbuildings earn their own mention. One opens with a 10-foot door built for an RV, a boat, or heavy equipment, room enough for the toys most properties have nowhere to put. The other is a