Showing posts with label Painted Piano. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Painted Piano. Show all posts

26 November 2012

Ta Da ...... My Battered Old Piano Is Now........

PINK!!!!!! Yes I said pink :-) I know it won't be everyone's cup of tea but I absolutely love it. I had initially painted it a sort of pale-ish greeny, grey, blue which I mixed from some Annie Sloan Old White and some tester pots I had and it was actually quite a nice colour but, it made the far end of the living room look really cold. I didn't really want to paint it in Annie Sloan Old White because, being a bit of a wimp, I seem to paint everything Old White and besides, it would just get lost against the white walls.  I'm still decorating the living room and some of the beams aren't painted with the top coat yet and the lighting wasn't brilliant but you get the idea so from this ............



To This ..........



The plan initially was to Annie Sloan it, distress it and then wax it but as I still haven't quite mastered the wax ageing process yet, I was a bit dubious about attacking it with the dark wax. So, after a thorough rummage in my paint cupboards, I came across half a tin of satinwood paint in a fabulous pale pink colour called Sweet Sundae. After taking a few deep breaths and before I could change my mind, I slapped a big patch of pink paint on the front of the piano so I couldn't chicken out and it looked so fabulous, I carried on and painted the whole thing pink. I absolutely love it. It has really warmed up the room, it goes perfectly with the curtains which are a lovely floral pattern and it goes beautifully with my Cath Kidston cushions on the sofa. 

23 November 2012

Inspiration For My Piano

I mentioned in my last blog post that after I have grappled with the living room ceiling I am going to paint my piano. It's a very old, very battered and very out of tune upright piano, which was bought by my ex mother-in-law for about £40 about 12 years ago for my kids to play on when they were younger. It's been moved several times since then and it's not been tuned for years and no-one has ever really played it but, it will apparently cost a fair bit to get someone to come and take it away and quite honestly, it looks nice with my family photos on top of it and it fills up my living room, which is quite big. It's just very very ugly, although there is a very beautiful inlaid rose with gorgeous leaves which I am planning to pick out in a different colour.



To be fair, it's looking a little more battered than usual at the moment because it's really dusty from all the furniture moving I have been doing while painting the ceiling and also because I didn't bother to cover it while I was painting and it got a few splodges of paint on it but as I'm painting it anyway it won't really matter.




This is the beautiful inlaid rose that I'm going to pick out in a different colour.

Sooooo in order to get some inspiration, I was looking on-line to find some ideas and I have come across some really awesome painted pianos. I'm hoping to mix some Annie Sloane Chalk Paint to get the perfect colour and I was thinking of painting it a lovely muted French Grey, I thought it would look nice against the newly painted white walls but then I found these pictures and now I'm not so sure. I really love them ...... What do you think?

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http://www.savvyhousekeeping.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/turquoise-piano-4.jpg



http://www.thecottagechick.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/Green-Piano-3.jpg


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