Almira fell in love with the Hamptons look when she lived in New York with her finance-executive husband Brad for three years during the mid-aughts. They would visit the glittering coastal enclaves of Montauk and the Hamptons and gush over the character-filled abodes with grand gables, shingled roofs and white picket fences.
“We always knew, if we had the opportunity to build, that would be the style of home we would
