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When soap star Susan Lucci and husband, Helmut Huber, wake up at their oceanfront home in Quogue, they feel like they’re “on a cruise ship,” the Garden City native tells Hamptons magazine in the latest issue. “On three sides of our bedroom are views as far as the eye can see … We never take this view for granted,” Lucci says.

Lucci and Huber have lived in a shingle-style mansion on Dune Road for two decades, but at first Lucci hesitated about the move to the East End. “My husband and my friends had to convince me of the area,” Lucci tells the magazine. “Looking back, it’s one of the best things I’ve ever done.”

In the mid-1980s, the couple purchased property with a beach shack on it. “It looked like a motel,” Lucci says. Over the next three years, with the help of architect Gene Futterman, they built their new home. Huber’s favorite room is the library. Lucci’s is the living room, designed to look like the inside of a lighthouse tower, with a domed, 35-foot ceiling. “The views from that room are just beautiful,” Lucci says. “You can see almost 360 degrees.”

Lucci, who plays Erika Kane on ABC’s All My Children, says she chose Quogue because it’s a “family town ... It’s the quietest place in the Hamptons.” Actor Michael J. Fox recently purchased a home in the community for $6.3 million; other notable residents include singer Kathleen Battle and architect Jay Sears.

When not enjoying their ocean views in Quogue, Lucci and Huber live in an 11-room Colonial home built in 1929 near the Garden City Golf Club.