It's hard not to envy Mariah Carey's Hamptons adventures. Last summer she made herself cozy in Tommy Hilfiger's tribute to the tasteful use of orange and this summer Braden Keil of the NY Post reports that Mariah is renting Stone Meadow Farm in East Hampton for on week for $125,000 (less than half of the reported $350,000 she spent on Hilfiger's pad but that was for a month).

Like Hilfiger's place was, this one is also up for sale. Stone Meadow Farm is on eight acres and has a 18,000 square foot house with 10 bedrooms and 12.5 bathrooms done up in white and dark brown with white walls and furnishings and dark wood floors and wood tables. The shingled expanse includes a 3500 sq ft finished lower level with a spa and media room.

The grounds include two separate cottages to house guests or staff as well as stone courtyards, large patios, a heated Gunite pool and a tennis court. The barn can stable five horses and there are ample riding fields. This home is listed for $19.95 million.

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Premiere jet charter broker Halcyon is arranging luxury helicopter packages between New York City and the Hamptons this season via the purchase of a special flight club card. The trip, which can take up to four hours on the Long Island Expressway in typical summer traffic, is a mere 45 minutes by helicopter. The Halcyon coordinated flights offer high-speed premium helicopters with luxurious cabins -- Bell Jet Ranger, Long Ranger, Augusta or Eurocopter -- staffed with two pilots, and can accommodate up to four passengers. Their Southampton Flight Club Card costs $7,700 (plus fees) and includes two one-way transfers from NYC to East Hampton or vice versa. The East Hampton Flight Club Card costs $22,500 (plus fees) and includes six one-way transfers. With the purchase of a card you also get a bottle of champagne, a carton of strawberries and a Halcyon Jets' gift basket containing Keihl's sunscreen, Origins organic lip balm, a Ralph Lauren beach towel and a bottle of Evian Mineral Water Spray, so you're ready to hit the beach the moment you arrive.

In his preface to Jake Rajs' beautiful new book, Beyond the Dunes: A Portrait of the Hamptons (Monacelli Press, $60), New Yorker architecture critic Paul Goldberger notes the photographer "shows us a vision of the Hamptons at once beautiful and fragile, prosperous but not smug." No easy feat when it comes to portraying such a storied locale, and Rajs manages it magnificently. The book is divided into geographical sections of the South Fork: Westhampton, Quogue and Hampton Bays; Shinnecock and Southampton; Water Mill, Bridgehampton and Sagaponack; Sag Harbor and the Springs; East Hampton and Amagansett; and Montauk (or, as we like to call them: No Money, Old Money, New Money, Some Money, More Money and What Money?). Along the way he finds everything from privet hedges to pumpkin fields and fishermen to polo players. Pictured here is an imposing "cottage" on Southampton's fabled Gin Lane. The book won't be out for another couple of weeks, but you can pre-order it now on Amazon. Meanwhile see the gallery for a preview.

I first heard about this home last spring when Tommy Hilfiger bought in on Further Lane in East Hampton. It was reported that Hilfiger spend around $18 million and planned to create his own furniture for the home. Fast forward a few months and Tommy is ready to move on. The home has five bedrooms, a media room, Boffi kitchen and an outdoor mahogany pavilion. There is also a vanishing edge pool and a private boardwalk leading to the ocean. About that furniture, Hilfiger did go to Bali and oversee the design of it. According to the Wall Street Journal article by Ben Casselman, the $24.5 million asking price doesn't include the furniture although it can be bougt separately. After the jump, a deliciously judicious use of orange as an accent color.

Today's estate isn't a waterfront Hamptons blockbuster but it does occupy a spot on scenic Lily Pond Lane in East Hampton, New York. Normandie was designed in 1914 by architect John Custis Lawrence. The five-bedroom main house has four fireplaces and staff quarters all on one story. There is also a two-bedroom guest house and a large pool house with two changing rooms and two baths. The entire estate is 2.8 acres.  The interior is in need of a little renovation it looks like it hasn't been updated in many years. The home is listed at $24 million. After the jump, oh look, it's your grandmother's kitchen.

Our estate of the day comes from a tip in the NY Post's Gimme Shelter section. Lasata, which is located in East Hampton, New York was one of the summer homes of the Bouvier family in the 1920s. The stately home was designed by architect Arthur Jackson and built in 1917. Its name means place of peace and the gorgeous home sits on over six acres. The home has six bedrooms and there is a pool. It is listed at $25 million. interior shots and pictures of the formal gardens after the jump.

This striking house in the Hamptons might not be for everyone. The angled design from Norman Jaffe is beautiful but if you have a hankering to decorate your house in chintz and Chippendale this is not the place for you. The house is a series of wedges with tilted roofs that allow for massive expanses of glass walls. Details of the home include a copper roof, stone and cedar paneling and a wedge-shaped pool with waterfall and whirlpool spa. The house sits on 2.5 acres a block away from the ocean and overlooks a private pond. It is listed at $12.5 million. Dated or delicious? I'm not quite certain, check out more pictures after the jump and let me know your take on this unique home.