May 5th, 2011 by Busy Mommy

Did I get you excited or fearful?  Well, it’s not what you’re hoping or fearful of I can tell you that!  Behold, our “new” piano!  Something for Nolan to bang on, and for Ben to play where I can enjoy listening to it.  I used to love when my mom played piano at night- I’d be in bed just listening to the lovely sounds of the piano with stuff like Chopin and Moonriver and….well, I don’t really know much about piano music but you get the picture.  Except now I am listening to the lovely sounds while I blog.  How times change.  I am now blogging when I used to be lying in bed ready to sleep.  And as a matter of fact it is indeed 11:39 pm right now.We got the piano in trade from one of Ben’s gardening clients in exchange for Ben’s labor- so basically free right?  He is installing a lawn for this client so part of the money he would have made will go to paying off the piano- this means that Ben only had to sell a small percentage of his back health for this piano.  Haha.The piano came into my house dark and foreboding and depressing.  I’m a very strange person in some ways.  Well maybe many ways, but this particular strange thing about me is that sometimes I get a feeling about a space or an object and it looks really depressing and empty to me- I hate that feeling and I can’t always explain why it feels that way to me, but anyway, this piano was old and very very dark- it made my living room feel empty and dark to me.  Obviously that has changed as you saw above!  I have coated it in 3 coats of primer, and 3 coats of off-white semi-gloss paint.  Later a decorative glaze will likely follow- either in teal, purple, or orangey tones, but I’m undecided on that at the moment so for now it will sit in it’s soft light beauty as it is.  Here’s a video below of the event and Nolan “playing” and singing.

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