Built in 1927, the construction of StoneHaven Bed & Breakfast features soapstone that was quarried in Floyd, as well as rich, original woodwork throughout. This Georgian style home is located at 244 Christiansburg Pike NE in Floyd; just one mile from the stoplight downtown.

This B&B offers four, handsomely decorated bedrooms; each with a unique theme and special name. In addition to the comfort of private bathrooms and central air, StoneHaven offers wi-fi, flat-screen televisions, a library, an expansive porch, and a gazebo, as well as homemade breakfasts made with organic and locally sourced ingredients. This B&B is also just minutes away from the stoplight in downtown Floyd, where visitors can enjoy local, world-class music, fine arts and crafts, shopping, dining, recreation, and adventure!
Owners Chris and Jennifer Miller feel that buying StoneHaven Bed & Breakfast was their destiny, and according to Jennifer, it was a story that was years in the making.
In the summer of 1972, Jennifer was just six years old while her sister, Amy, was five. The girls’ dad had a friend named Bobby who’d called to say that his own girls had outgrown their playhouse and he wanted to know if Jennifer and Amy might like it.
With a father working overtime to provide for his family and a mother staying at home to care for three children, fancy toys and elaborate playhouses were a reason to get excited. It wasn’t long before the small, stick-built house was unloaded and placed in the side yard.
Jennifer fondly remembers the tiny kitchen sink, the small cabinets, and the little bench table. It even came complete with checkered curtains and dishes! “Oh, the meals we made with sticks, grass, and mud!” recalls Jennifer. “My favorite task was to fill the little vase with wildflowers I would gather from the wood’s edge.”
Jennifer also tells us that it was easy to play house because she had such a good teacher. Her mother was a talented seamstress and gardener; taking pride in her cooking, as well as decorating her home with the labor of her hands. “I can remember lying flat on my back at her feet and looking up to watch her sew,” says Jennifer. “Catching stray threads between her lips and talking to me all the while.”
Jennifer also spent many hot summer afternoons watching her mother water the flower gardens. “I can still smell the lovely fragrance of the gardenias that graced the sides of our front entrance.” It was there in the family’s first brick home that Jennifer’s mother imparted to her a joy of flowers.
Years later, Jennifer’s early adult life revolved around raising her own family; a task for which she kept in constant touch with her favorite teacher. “I spent hours on the phone with Mama,” she says. “She literally taught me to cook over that old rotary telephone with its ten-foot cord.”
With her mother’s help, it would be in her first home as an adult that Jennifer finally became what she would consider “domesticated”. Her husband, as well as her church family, would often rave about the chocolate pound cakes and chicken casseroles she’d proudly make for the monthly fellowship meals.
And thanks to her mom’s help with decorating ideas, Jennifer’s husband would often return from work to find the furniture moved and the walls newly painted! Playing house had become Jennifer’s passion.
In 1995, however, she found herself single and raising two small boys. But fate was just getting started. In 2004, Jennifer met and married the love of her life, Chris Miller, and she became enchanted with Maine when they visited for their honeymoon. Incidentally, it was during this visit that the new couple had their first experience with a Bed & Breakfast, at the refurbished home of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in Portland. During a second B&B stay at the beautiful Spouter Inn in Lincolnville Beach, Jennifer found herself admiring the vibrant blues and whites in the dining room and thinking how much fun that type of life could be.
The defining moment of their experience in Maine, however, came when they’d stopped at a well-known restaurant in Camden; famous for their lobster rolls. Unaware of the time, Jennifer and Chris had arrived when the place was closing to prepare for the dinner crowd. As they turned to walk away, they were quickly greeted by the owner who escorted them back in and insisted on serving them personally. Afterward, he walked them back out and asked if they had any plans for their future together.
The restaurant owner complemented their Southern hospitality and quickly offered a tantalizing opportunity. The man also owned a local Bed & Breakfast and was looking for the perfect couple to run it. Chris and Jennifer humbly thanked the kind stranger, but ultimately declined the offer to move to Maine. Yet they never forgot the seed that was planted that day.
That was fifteen years ago. In May of 2018, however, the whisper of destiny that had been following Jennifer since childhood finally became a triumphant song. She and Chris purchased the old soapstone home on Christiansburg Pike and opened StoneHaven Bed & Breakfast two months later.
“It has been pure joy,” says Jennifer, “to serve ‘all who enter in’.” And that joy is reflected in the appreciation of the guests who have found their way there. As one returning guest recently emailed: “We’ll treasure the memories of gathering around your breakfast table and we feel as though we’ve made friends with you and your other guests. We respect your sacrifice and the hard work it must take in providing much more than a room in a hotel—you are touching people’s hearts and turning strangers into family.”
For more information about StoneHaven B&B, to see photos of the beautiful rooms, or to make a reservation, visit online at www.stonehavenbnbfloyd.com. You can also check them out and follow on Facebook at StoneHaven Bed and Breakfast.

StoneHaven B&B • Jennifer & Chris Miller
www.stonehavenbnbfloyd.com • (540) 745-4018
244 Christiansburg Pk. NE, Floyd, Virginia
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