For sale: 615 Sunset Lane, East Lansing ($449,000)
615 Sunset Lane is now offered for sale!
Welcome to 615 Sunset Lane, East Lansing, a restored treasure!
Welcome to 615 Sunset Lane, East Lansing! This is a gem of a house, built in 1923 and carefully renovated by pros and by permits in 2024.
The original beauty of this house has been fully preserved! That includes gorgeous built-ins, oak moldings, and oak flooring. But the house has also been dramatically improved just this year in terms of infrastructure and polish.
The four-season sunroom (left), huge living room, and dining room.
The location can't be beat. Imagine living a five-minute walk from the wonderful campus of Michigan State University, five minutes' walk from all the convenience of downtown East Lansing, two blocks from the Hannah Community Center (indoor pool and gym!), two blocks from the Farmers Market, and living in a 1920s neighborhood with majestic old-growth trees where people genuinely take care of each other.
The house is in the Oakwood Historic District, featuring beautiful houses from the 1910s to 1930s. Many of our trees are over 100 years old, a few nearly 250 years old. (There is also an agreement which covers two mature trees on the property. Read more about that here.) Plus, we're in the East Lansing Public Schools' district, within walking distance to the elementary and high schools.
There's a reason houses like this one rarely come up for sale: when people move here, they put down roots, they make friends who become family, and they stay.
The basics:
This 1923 house has approx. 2,300 square feet of living space spread over three floors, including its finished basement. Legally restricted to owner occupancy (no rentals), it has four bedrooms and three full baths. The house shares a driveway with the house on the south side. (This is covered in a recorded legal agreement.) It has a one-car garage, a carport, and parking for two additional cars on a paved parking pad. The backyard is sunny, allowing for a sizable vegetable garden if that's your thing.
New features include upgraded (new) electrical service to the house, new central air conditioning, one entirely new full bath (with heated floor) and one other fully renovated bath, a totally refreshed kitchen with new cabinetry, walls, flooring, a new front walk, and reinvigorated garden with gorgeous perennials, and so much more!
Best of all, the house is empty, well cleaned, and in move-in condition! The rooms have all been freshly painted in soft neutrals. Even the closets have new paint. The HVAC vents have recently been professionally cleaned, as has the sewer line. The house was recently power washed.
We've done all we can to make sure our new neighbors will enjoy an easy relo!
The first floor:
Just up the front steps, you enter to the main level which includes a four-season sunroom facing east and south, a huge living room with a wood-burning fireplace, a dining room with a gorgeous built-in window seat, the kitchen, a new full bath with heated floor and shower, and (behind the dining room) a flex room that could be a bedroom, office, guest room, playroom, or craft room.
The four-season sunroom (left), huge living room (center), and dining room.The four-season sunroom at the front of the house.A view of the sunroom from the doorway, looking southeast.The living room with the French doors to the sunroom closed. The French doors have the original oak and beveled glass.Another view of the huge living room.Looking from the living room into the dining room (right).Looking from the dining room into the living room. Note the built-in window seat (with three drawers below the seat) and the brass chandelier.The kitchen has had a major renovation. The countertops are granite. The stove and hood are new. Lots of fresh cabinetry, a new floor, and new lighting was added!Looking toward the dining room from the kitchen.The kitchen has a marvelous breakfast nook, perfect for casual family meals.Behind the kitchen is a vestibule with a broom closet/pantry. This leads to a new full-bath. The vestibule and new bath have a heated floor.The first-floor bath is entirely new and includes a shower with a seat.All the plumbing, electrical, and HVAC is new in this bathroom! It is easily accessed from the living quarters and from the bedroom/office next door. The pocket door for the bathroom is original to the house and was refurbished for this use.Behind the dining room and next to the new bath is a bedroom that could also be used as an office, guest room, playroom, or craft room. The door on the left is a new closet. The doorway on the right leads to the vestibule between the kitchen and bath. The window at the top right is shared with the breakfast nook.Here's the same room with the pocket doors closed (closet, left; door to vestibule on the right). The pocket doors are original to the house, repurposed for this room!The same room seen from the vestibule. This room gets wonderful light, particularly in the afternoon, as it faces south and west.Looking from the living room into the dining room, you see the first-floor bedroom at the back and the doorway to the kitchen just off the dining room. (The breakfast nook is just off the dining room.)Here's the dining room with the door to the back bedroom closed.
The second floor:
Head upstairs from the living room and you'll find three more bedrooms with big closets, a big hall closet, an original, beautiful linen closet, and a renovated bathroom (one of three full bathrooms in the house).
A doorway with another original French door leads from the living room to the stairwell heading up. Just to the right of the stairwell is a coat closet (unusual for houses of this vintage but clearly original).Picture yourself closing that door and having your grown-up time in that big living room while the kids and/or the cats sleep upstairs!The first upstairs bedroom up the stairs is the smallest -- but it is still pretty big! And it has a large closet and two windows (facing east and north) to provide plenty of light.The second upstairs bedroom, facing east and south, is very large and bathed in morning light. It also has a large closet.The third upstairs bedroom faces south and west. The door with the window shown at the back leads to a roof deck where the prior owners grew tomatoes and herbs. The door to the right leads to a large walk-in closet.The walk-in closet of this bedroom could be converted into an ensuite bathroom. It backs up on the plumbing of the second-floor full bath and already has a window!The second-floor bathroom is all new except for the original cast-iron tub. All new plumbing and electrical plus a new, quiet shower fan (with light).Just outside the second-floor bathroom is a gorgeous, original linen closet with four drawers and a cabinet of shelving. The original woodwork of the linen closet is in excellent condition.A close-up of the 1920s hardware of the linen closet.
Let's head down to the basement:
A door in the kitchen leads down stairs to the basement level. Because the house is built into a hill, the basement level is also the level of the garage. That means it's easy to bring your groceries in from the car up to the kitchen.
And, as mentioned above, there's a third full bathroom on this level.The basement is finished and dry.The washer and dryer are housed in the utility room with the furnace and hot water heater. (The house is being sold with all the appliances, all of which work well!)A view of the house from the driveway.
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