So today on Kelly's Korner is SUYL Mantles but I don't have a mantle. But I asked Kelly and she said I could show the top of my piano since, as I put it, "It is a large, flat surface which is hard to decorate."
Our piano is in our living room and right now it is just on a large wall. We have some music themed pictures on our piano but it needs something more. It just looks a little lost I think. (And the green spot to the right of the piano is one of the post-it notes my son likes to stick around the house!)
Normally our piano looks like this -- some pictures and a miscellaneous pile of stuff. I like the pictures. The one on the wall was a wedding gift and is a picture of some musical art in Spain. The two brown frames are my husband playing piano with each of our kids at about a week old. The plastic side-by-side frame are my husband and I playing piano -- once on our wedding day and one at FAO Schwartz in New York City. I like the piano light and the crocheted piece was a wedding gift from my grandma. The piano was originally hers as well. The big picture is of my other grandma and her sister on a day they played dress-up. My grandma was wearing her father's suit :)
It's the other side I don't know what to do with. I feel like our piano is half decorated and half not. Sometimes I have a vase of flowers there but a lot of the time (like now) I don't. Do you have suggestions for me? I think I need something with height and interest. And something for the wall behind it. It's so bare.
Thanks for taking a look and for any suggestions you might have. And now I'm off to check out what people have done with their mantles. Maybe I'll get some inspiration.
Nice! We've ended up stacking music books on the ends of our piano--partly because we ran out of space in the bench, but it also gave us some height on top there.
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