For sale: Roslyn Heights art house

If you've been trolling through the real estate ads lately, one house in Roslyn Heights might have caught your eye. Among the items on display behind the walls of the 1938 expanded ranch is a giant pair of red lips with a cigarette dangling from the mouth. "No one smokes in the house," says owner Miriam Miller, pointing out that her doctor-husband, Matt, decided to make the polyethylene sculpture after being inspired by a photo he saw.

It is one of several unusual items in the great room of the four-bedroom, three-bath, one-half-bath home, which is on the market for $679,000 with Peggy and Michael Carillo of Prudential Douglas Elliman Real Estate.

On a table next to the sculpture is a whale vertebrae, which Miller, a teacher, bought from someone on the beach during a field trip with her students to Matzatlan, Mexico. On the other side of the room there's a gas pump, which she bought at a Manhattan flea market, and a turn-of-the-century cash register on loan from a friend.

In the bathroom, there's a cow's skull, which she found on the side of the road while driving through south Texas. And in the kitchen? Two busts -- one in red and one in purple, each sculpted as self-portraits by her now-grown daughter and her son.

While the Millers are taking these and other artworks with them, you can see them up close when they hold an open house from 1 to 3 p.m. Sept. 26.

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