“Wide-open spaces and nature have always been of the utmost importance to me,” says Jupiter, Florida, designer Kara Miller, who spent her early childhood years on a sugarcane farm. So when she discovered this 5-acre piece of land after a visit to her beloved father’s grave in 2020, it felt like a divine nudge. “I just knew it was supposed to be mine,” she remembers. “I was like, ‘This is it. This is meant to be. It’s in the stars.’ I knew in my heart God was saying, ‘This is definitely going to be a part of your story.’ ”
It took a few years for her farmhouse to materialize. After considering several iterations, Kara ultimately settled on a stock plan (“I loved the elevation,” she says) and worked with her firm’s in-house architectural draftsman to revise the footprint to…..