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Love the bathroom!

All this, well if you don't care about your piano because it's old is nonsense.... old pianos will last forever if they are played regularly and taken care of. A well made old piano can have a sound that is equivalent or better than a brand new 80,000 dollar piano.

I have an old 1926 upright piano that I have had in my family since I was a child( my parents got it for free for us to have lessons) and has been played for the past 25 years. It has lived on both interior and exterior walls in old and new houses. It currently lives in my brooklyn apartment. If your house is older, I would recommend doing your best to put it on an interior wall.

Drafty isn't so bad, the two things that will destroy a piano's soundboard (the part that makes each piano unique and makes the sound resonate) are lack of playing and major humidity/ heat fluctuations. Think about how your doors swell and shrink, or floor boards or the like, the same is true for your piano. If the fluctuations are too drastic, then you can crack your soundboard, thus, damaging your piano....or, the fluctuations cause the piano to become out of tune... so, I'd say this, interior or exterior wall, put it in a place where you feel it has the most consistent temperature and moisture level, and invest in a dehumidifier. It's the fluctuation that will really kill an instrument, so if it's on perhaps a south facing wall, that is protected from the wind by hedges, better than than a north facing wall unprotected, etc....

Also, listen to your instrument, it will tell you if it is incredibly unhappy. If it needs tuning more than every six months, then you may need to move it to another spot. Also, trust your local piano tuner. The large majority of them are hardcore musicians who tune pianos as a way to have a steady income. They love music, and instruments, and will give you an honest answer about how happy or unhappy your instrument is.

Whichever wall you choose, consistency is key!

I agree with some of the above commenters. use plumbing. Copper plumbing is inexpensive at home depot, and if you mount hooks from the ceiling you can use pipe and elbows to create a u shape to hang from the ceiling. i use the 1/2 in copper pipe as my normal curtain rods in my apt because it's cheap and they look super cute. The copper pipe looks like it might be flimsy holding curtains, but it isn't.... and you can just cut three lengths of pipe, use elbows to connect them (you can use super glue in the elbow if you're concerned it won't hold without soldering.) and voila! and you don't have to be worried about ugly plastic pvc.... 1/2" by 10 feet is only 12 bucks! http://www.homedepot.com/Plumbing-Pipes-Fittings-Valves-Copper-Pipe-Fittings/h_d1/N-5yc1vZbuu2/R-100354198/h_d2/ProductDisplay?catalogId=10053&langId=-1&storeId=10051#.UK8EeIXXdL8

I'd hold on to it and get it reupholstered. Or, if not, give it away but it looks like a really awesome couch. Reupholstery is expensive but not as much as a new sofa... if your bent on the idea of mohair check out http://www.modern-fabrics.com/ they have a lot of discount fabrics from other upholstery jobs, you may be able to buy the fabric cheap, or something else that would work, and save for reupholstery, you'll be happy you did.

The ability to correctly arrange colors doesn't have a lot to do with your ability to decide what colors work in a room or a design per se....

For me, I'm nearly legally blind, have been since I was 4, I'm in my late 20s now and I've always sworn I see detail through my acute perception of color because I can't actually see with any level of sharpness... think high def tv vs monet painting... I scored a perfect score on this test.

I think for me, my ability to see color makes up for my lack of clairity in my vision, so perhaps you all with "poor color" aren't actually so bad, it's just that your eyes see detail well enough on their own, that they don't have to perfect the slight nuances in order for you to perceive depth or space.

I miss the separate sites, mainly because the stuff I wanted to read, and didn't want to read weren't mingled.

I hope you go back. It feels like a wordpress site, I am disappointed.

Get a photo an outdoor scene, put it on the back wall and make it into a "window"... or just paint it a bright color and put some family photos or something there.

The window Idea is my favorite though, I've done it before, usually I use beach scenes or you can get a favorite landscape of yours blown up. Old windows or shutters are easy to find and you could use on to make it more windowlike.

Or if you have a stained glass window, just put two eye hooks in the top of the window, and two hooks in the top of the cubby and hang it :)

The photo for this post, the orange kitchen, is it an entry? are there more photos? I would love to see more and looked around at but couldn't find it.

Give it a good scrub with hot water and vinegar to get the grime off, and then buff it with some mineral oil. I live in nyc and I know the target at atlantic ave always has mineral oil for like 1.99... it's next to the witch hazel and stuff. CVS sometimes has it but its more of a hit or miss...

Garden path, garden edging are both good. You could also use them to create a little "patio" somewhere where you want more surface but don't have it. AKA: outside basement doors... by the house where you keep the hose... etc...