Above An array of junk-shop loot— mirrors, taxidermied
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T ony Stamolis often jokes that he and his wife, Sarah Gray Miller, run a nonprofit bed-and-breakfast. All things considered, the man has a point. Every Friday night, the couple’s late-19th-century Italianate in the sleepy village of Athens, New York, erupts into a raging party. Two, three, or six friends might hop a train from Manhattan at the last minute. Neighbors swing by for a drink. And before you know it, a quiet dinner becomes a boisterous bash. Country Living’s editor-in-chief may have imported her warm, bighearted style of entertaining—where the bar’s always stocked, the music plays loud, and the mayonnaise is full-fat—from her native Natchez, Mississippi, but it suits this Northeastern climate just fine. “Any given weekend, we’ll burn through two pounds of coffee, easy,” says Stamolis, a photographer. Guests repay the hospitality in numerous ways. “If you can call these people guests,” Miller adds. “They have a real sense of ownership. It’s basically a commune, but with much better cheese.” After a few bourbons, a group may start hanging art on a wall or rearranging items on a table. One evening last fall, Miller and a pair of cohorts—an architect and a carpenter, as it happens—began chatting about her fantasy kitchen. Today, an antique hardware-store cabinet takes the place of built-ins, and modern appliances (refrigerator drawers, a dishwasher) are discreetly embedded in the island. While (continued on page 88) Above An array of junk-shop loot— mirrors, taxidermied birds, a horse bit— fills one living-room wall. Left Miller scored the gray damask chair, which once belonged to New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg, at a benefit. The rococo-revival sofa wears Marimekko’s Tuuli print. The white lamp claims far humbler Ikea origins. 84 . c ou n t ry li vi ng.co m . octob e r 2 013
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