Help me think about how to decorate my piano room
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That would be fairly easy to make yourself with just some basic tools. If you didn't want to attempt the fancy mitre joint (the way the horizontal and vertical pieces meet in a diagonal line) you could even just piece together 2 horizontal and 2 vertical pieces of 1x2 or 1x3 depending on how thick the canvas is. If you don't have a saw, get them cut in advance at Lowes/Home Depot and use angle brackets (you'd need a screwdriver and perhaps a drill for a pilot hole) on the back to assemble them -- these things: https://www.amazon.com/DGOL-Corner-Braces-Picture-Bracket/dp/B095GLLP15/ref=sr_1_4?crid=2681WCPXUQDLW&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.1tFQpAHZ8Mq5vOUAKTSL-9AGNKVwtOpnoFDrs2IZ-KBNfrXpPG4c-JFsVJY1koWy_Li2qC7zCeCbn7BntSsYCYtF4gTDod0OiQMpWlS0X2V1qtbg9H51HS_DKgdI02ECiE5S92-RaxYVamIuc-Yic9d0O_A-UxC1TuVx3zCLR9AeoKBu8UpNa7ZG2evcSKRXyiiTIjWdR41c3PUvWd_kMJgEkVs89TSz5wdm5pGtlgE.08b6PdI6M9VWYFJjVbgWeqsxnP3Dmszj3xJ2Uf_Gy0Q&dib_tag=se&keywords=flat%2BL%2Bbrackets%2Bto%2Bjoin%2Bwood&qid=1719582294&sprefix=flat%2Bl%2Bbrackets%2Bto%2Bjoin%2Bwood%2Caps%2C105&sr=8-4&th=1
With a coat of black paint, it wouldn't be super obvious that you don't have mitred corners and you could basically pull it off for under $25 or so. Getting it framed professionally would be a lot more $$$$ but would obviously be a more polished look.
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What @Lisa describes is what we did with the Z Gallerie piece, except that we used a Kreg pocket hole jig that we already had instead of the angle brackets. The butt joints are pretty much invisible when the piece is painted.
The angle brackets are a great lower cost alternative if you don't have a Kreg.
BTW, @ShiroKuro ...I can't believe the prices at Z Gallerie. Granted it was some years ago, but I paid $99 for the piece I bought at their Woodfield Mall store...
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Hmm, maybe we'll (ok, not "we," but Mr SK) will actually try to do the frame now, rather than hang it first. I bet he could do it very easily!
@wtg re those prices, yeah, amazing! And I thought Art dot com was expensive! The things I liked were priced in the four digits!!
Thanks to everyone's advice in this thread, I got four pieces for less than $200. Much better! (I'm saving my four-digit expenditure for a sofa for Mr SK!!)
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Oh, they sell frame kits on Amazon... maybe I can find one in the right size...
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BTW, the piece I have is 28 x 22, so no kits on Amazon in that size. Other places online are in the neighborhood of $100, which defeats the purpose of DIYing this... Although maybe if I could fint one closer to $60...
Anyway, we'll start with Lowes and see how we do.
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Ok, it's done!! Well for now anyway, I left space to add some smaller prints
Here are some photos, first the bass-side wall
Next, the treble-side wall
I love it!!!
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BTW, the next thing to add is another chair to go to the right of the red chair. After I took these photos, I brought in a medium sized chair from the living, and that fills that hole quite nicely, so I just need to get another one. And a chair for the tail end of the piano as well...
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Looks good! The red circles between the framed pieces worked out well.
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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Thank you!
@wtg said in Help me think about how to decorate my piano room:
Looks good! The red circles between the framed pieces worked out well.
Yeah, I like that order. I don’t like how lined up it looks at the bottom, but when I get another chair in there, I think it will be good.
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What kind of chair are you looking for? Would you want two matching chairs, and move the red chair to the tail end of the piano?
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@AdagioM Good question! Matching chairs could be nice actually. Although it’s not as roomy as it looks in the photos, so the footprint of the chair is important. My funky rocking chair (which is in the living room) fits there at an angle, but other chairs might not work that way. And a regular armchair or plush chair would probably be too deep…
Way back in this thread (I think) @wtg suggested a little shelf or table plus chair IIRC and I said thst wouldn’t work, but now that everything else is in place, maybe it would…
Hmm…
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Looks great!
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Thank you!!
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Would it look weird to have “dining chairs” like this in the piano room? Either one or two. (I would what black probably, not gray, but this is the style)
https://www.athome.com/providence-amina-dining-chair-charcoal-grey/124353350.html?nav=search
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Maybe an accent chair would better if the dining chair looks out of place…
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I think the wall with the red circles art needs to have matching chairs if there are two.
The dining chairs could work well, maybe with the red chair on the adjoining wall where the art is.
Do you have two matching dining chairs that you could move in to get a feel for how it might look before schlepping home something?
When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier
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@wtg said in Help me think about how to decorate my piano room:
I think the wall with the red circles art needs to have matching chairs if there are two.
Good point!
The dining chairs could work well, maybe with the red chair on the adjoining wall where the art is.
I like this idea.
Do you have two matching dining chairs that you could move in to get a feel for how it might look before schlepping home something?
Yes actually, just regular ones but they have black backs so would give a good idea.
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That looks really nice!
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Thank you!!
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Ok, so here is what it looks like with some of our dining chairs to the left of the piano.
Two chairs
Side view:
What it looks like with the red chair on the back wall:
Mr SK thinks two chairs looks crowded, so here's one chair:
So it makes sense to me to get two chairs (so I have a set) and I can keep one in the guest room if I decide he's right about two being too many...
I would get something like this:
Or maybe this (it's hard to find these parsons chairs in black)
Anyway, what do you think?
