Budget Breakdown: A Family Looks to Sea Ranch for Their $273K Sag Harbor Renovation

When it’s summer in the Hamptons, an unpopulated beach is a rare luxury. For Kelly and Rob, even if a run-down house they were looking to buy wasn’t itself love at first sight, its proximity to a quiet stretch of sand and sweeping sunset views were convincing. But the 2,000-square-foot, two-bed, two-bath Sag Harbor home also had enough room for hosting, and offered a way for the family to escape a hectic schedule in Manhattan, where Kelly, an an art curator, and Rob, an artist, both work. "The house was not in great shape," says Kelly. "But it had great bones, as they say."