Musical Piano

A piano is by nature musical, I know. I get it, really. But our piano is always moving around, reminding me of musical chairs.

Get it? Didn't want it?

Anyway. The piano has been one of my biggest problems since we moved in. I tried to talk Doug into having a "music room" - turning one of the upstairs bedrooms into a piano room/library. That is probably called a conservatory, but whatever. He wasn't having it. So I ended up with the piano in the front room. It doesn't work very well - whenever someone is practicing, everyone else is piping up and asking them to stop. Including Doug.

The main problem, though, is that the piano just doesn't seem to fit in that front room. It's made for some very awkward furniture arrangements. In the first one, there wasn't a whole lot of seating, and you only could see the straight side of the piano. Having the piano in front of the window also made looking out the window a little more difficult. Since this is Doug's favorite view, he wasn't a fan of this idea.

Not a whole lot of seating...and you only see the straight side of the piano.

This arrangement made it possible to see the curve of the piano...but we lost this option when the wall was cut down. With a half wall, Sophia can climb directly onto the piano. Not safe for her or the piano. This arrangement also had the problem of that small sofa: the kids always wanted to push it against the wall...but there really wasn't enough room for that.

There were a lot more arrangements that didn't work even as well as those pictured above. For some reason, I didn't take pictures of them. Doesn't take a genius to figure out why I didn't want pictures, huh?

So I tried something new. I wasn't too excited about putting the piano in a corner, but...

It is now out of the way. And it makes the entire seating arrangement a large oval, allowing us to have more seating.

Yes, those dumb chairs still need to be reupholstered. I'm even thinking of switching out the little white sofa with one of the leather sofas we have downstairs. The pattern is still too much (I recovered it here), but I find the recovered sofa makes the room too dark.

You might also notice that my new little stool made its way out here, too. I think a coffee table would make a better statement, but this is what we have right now. So, what do you think? I know, you think I should finish those chairs - and maybe those swirly lines on the wall! Yes, you are probably right.