“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 function more efficiently for her and her family. “It’s interesting how floor plans and architecture can really change the way you feel in and experience somebody’s space, so it was important to me that I included thi...