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  1. Kim Arsenian
    April 14, 2015 @ 4:15 pm

    You are AWESOME! I can’t wait to see the completed kitchen.

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  2. Garden, Home and Party
    April 14, 2015 @ 4:15 pm

    Oh my goodness, is it black? It’s gorgeous! Will you top it with marble or keep it available for impromptu piano music from Paul, while you cook? It really is spectacular. I can’t believe it’s free.
    xo,
    Karen

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  3. Linzy
    April 14, 2015 @ 4:55 pm

    Liberté, égalité, fraternité craigslisté! Haha oh god you’re a riot.

    I really don’t see why Paul even bothers to put up a fight anymore.

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  4. Sandi Keene
    April 14, 2015 @ 5:00 pm

    Totally and completely awesome. Nobody in their right mind would think otherwise.

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  5. Blanca Lapizco
    April 14, 2015 @ 5:05 pm

    You are amazing! Period.

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  6. Jan W.
    April 14, 2015 @ 5:07 pm

    I started my day by having a – let’s just say, “a routine gastroenterology” test. Thank goodness I had this post to read when I emerged from my drug induced stupor. TOTALLY made of for the beginning of the day! Brilliant idea! Obviously this is why you hadn’t found anything sooner. What I’m most impressed with is you and Paul know how to successfully use the magic roll of green plastic wrap. We bought one for our last move and only managed to create big balls of useless ornamentation as we tried to use it on our furniture. Best of all – the “happy dance” endings to your videos. So sweet of Paul to indulge you in all the ways he does.

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  7. Emily
    April 14, 2015 @ 5:34 pm

    Well, this was a surprise! I’m a musician; my pianist would have had a heart attack.
    But…she has been afflicted often with having to perform on what she calls “PSO”‘s, or “piano-shaped-objects”, i.e., pianos in such dreadful shape that a kitchen island is the perfect solution for their existence. Absolutely brilliant, I say. And, dare I hope, FREE? Usually people are just happy to get rid of them.

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  8. Carla
    April 14, 2015 @ 5:47 pm

    THAT made me HAPPY! Love ya!!!!!!!! 🙂

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  9. Sally
    April 14, 2015 @ 5:55 pm

    I wish my kitchen was big enough for a piano island. An absolutely wonderful idea. You are so creative with big fancy things.

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  10. Marisa Franca @ All Our Way
    April 14, 2015 @ 6:25 pm

    OMG!! I understand every word, every nuance, every thought process. That scares me — big time. Because I can see me turning into a very old version of you — I’m in my sixties and I hate my house. Oh Boy!! My poor hubby is in for a very rough ride 🙂 Thank you for being my inspiration.

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  11. Shirley
    April 14, 2015 @ 6:46 pm

    Splendorous, sumptuous, ravishing and above all Victoria’s triumph!

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  12. PJ
    April 14, 2015 @ 7:08 pm

    HOORAY!!! YIPPEE!!! And, yes, I do mean all caps!!!

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  13. Barbara Chapman
    April 14, 2015 @ 7:31 pm

    So this is how all the pioneers unscrewed and packed their pianos and brought them out to the West… Your idea for a kitchen island; it just might work!!! 🙂 Love the video and it’s so cute the two of you dancing!! <3 (grammar aside…) Maybe add a bottom shelf for baskets and things. 🙂

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  14. lizykat
    April 14, 2015 @ 7:58 pm

    I love the idea of your island….am so glad you finally found the solution. It is an AWESOME piano in any event… your video made me smile. love the dancing and kiss at the end. You two are an adorable couple!

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  15. Priscilla
    April 14, 2015 @ 8:13 pm

    A “covert attack on your mental health”. You are priceless! Pretty sure the neighbour could hear me laughing as I read that.

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  16. Linda Everson Kasicki
    April 14, 2015 @ 8:20 pm

    I have the ‘twin’ to your piano…only mine is a McPhail…Boston..1861. It has been residing in my livingroom for the past 23 yrs holding pictures, a bust and a few knick knacks. I had this WONDERFUL idea 5yrs ago when needing a kitchen island…..’she’ justs sits there holding up pictures, gathering dust, taking up room (that i need for an 1850’s couch)….WHY CAN’T SHE JUST GO TO WORK IN THE KITCHEN??? I NEED her…..I WANT her….NO ONE can take her place…..my husband balks….”We have a PERFECTLY GOOD River-recovery slab of heartpine….WHY do I need to sacrifice the PIANO?” WEEELLLL…..there are no legs for the slab….there is no one to build the ‘slab table’….I am whining…IT IS NOT WORKING. I still have the heartpine laying on a kitchen counter…..there are no legs yet….and my piano sighs with relief as she holds the pictures, the bust and a few knick knacks. I DREAM…..:)

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  17. Toni
    April 14, 2015 @ 8:45 pm

    I KNEW you would find just the perfect piece….because you are one TENACIOUS woman! It will be fantastic. I had an uncle once who was an amazing decorator and he turned a piano very much like this into a dinning room table, storing his linens where the guts of the piano once were after lining it with felt! This will be a brilliant one of a kind kitchen island!!!!! Good for you! Can’t wait to see your kitchen when it is done!

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  18. Bev
    April 14, 2015 @ 8:47 pm

    That is freakin’ awesome! I love your Craigslist finds.

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  19. Ellen Kelly
    April 14, 2015 @ 8:51 pm

    Perfection, once again. I have visions of you laying across the piano with a rose in between your teeth, and a bag of cheeseburgers for dinner!!! Great score. Congrats, Ellen

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    • Yvonne Angus
      April 15, 2015 @ 10:15 am

      Thank you, Ellen, for that wonderful picture to carry in my head! I can SO see it, too, now that you have painted it, with one addition…Jon Hamm, standing behind Victoria!

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  20. Gaylin
    April 14, 2015 @ 9:56 pm

    Adore you!
    Great video! Fun music! And aren’t you the luckiest girlie!

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