Building drawers inside the piano!! DIY repurposed kitchen island, pt 5. *video*
if you’re new to the piano, start here! This is part 5… here is: part one, two, three, four, six, seven
After we decided to put drawers in the piano, I spent a few days doing mockups… because I know nothing of building furniture, I was not restricted by things like feasibility.
Paul looked at my idea and said– super! I’ll get right on it!
No.
What Paul really said was – why don’t we just have open space? Then you can throw whatever you want in there.
I felt flames coming out of my eyeballs, because I CANNOT BE THE VOICE OF REASON… It violates all acceptable-world-function.
But then, one day, Paul decided that he would make the drawers.
I would like to think this is because he realized the genius of my idea which will soon qualify me for the Noble Prize in creative kitchen design.
But it is more likely that he simply completed the mental circuit of: why-is-Victoria-being-so-…-wait-an-idea-…-hmmm-that-is-interesting-…-what-if-I-…-reverse-engineer-this-part-…-I-could-also-do-this-other-thing-…-where-is-my-pencil?
From then on, he proceeded to act as though HE had thought of the drawers. He even said things like– these drawers are going to be GREAT!! You will be able to fit so much stuff in them!!
As though this was not my original point.
However, he has totally redeemed himself… reversing his original advocacy for bowling alley storage, he has taken my idea and improved upon it 10,000%.
So I guess when the Nobel Prize committee calls me, I will be forced to share the glory and press coverage with Paul.
This will be twice as much work for me, because I will have to write his acceptance speech, as well as my own… I fear that, left to his own devices, Paul might fail to acknowledge my position as Kitchen Muse and general bringer of splendor and fabulousness to his life.
Everything you are looking at still needs finished drawer fronts, but I could not wait to show you!!!
The drawer fronts are where the keyboard used to be… to get a sense of how the piano was put together, go here and see us deconstructing it.
Now for the boring part.
Now for a video… I need some more time to edit my dissertation on designing and building piano storage.
July 30, 2015 @ 11:54 am
The video is amazing!! That piano is just amazing with this drawers.The video is amazing!!
August 1, 2015 @ 11:01 am
Wow it’s been months since we heard anything…just want to know if you are ok?!?
August 28, 2015 @ 2:09 pm
Wow! I would’ve never imagined putting shelves into an antique piano. What a unique idea! Great post! I enjoyed reading it thoroughly!
September 5, 2015 @ 10:09 pm
I don’t know what I can add to what hasn’t already been said but your vision of the piano as an island is just amazing – as is your husband’s carpentry talents. A previous reviewer (Christy) said you two should be on TV. She is absolutely correct!
By the way, I love your humor and if you EVER get a spare minute (which seems doubtful!) take a look at another very funny and talented blogger, Karen Bertelsen – “The Art of Doing Stuff”. There isn’t much she won’t single-handedly try …. and master!
March 27, 2017 @ 5:47 pm
I love it! I love it ALL! GREAT FINDS! GREAT POSTS! Thank you 🙂
May 22, 2019 @ 10:11 pm
OMG. I hate the expression OMG. But I found my blogger soul mate. You are smashing, my dear. Look me up next time you vacation in NC and we will drink copious amounts of wine and dream design the new kitchen I don’t need.
September 28, 2021 @ 9:53 pm
Argh! I don’t know if it’s me or your videos. Tried to watch them… more than 10 of them. Same problem with all. Less than thirty seconds of sped up shots, then off to an ad. The same ad every time! Sat through the ad until I could skip it, but it never returned to the same video to complete. Aaaaasrrrggghhh, torture. Would love to see a whole one. I can’t believe you’ve put them out on purpose that short. Looked interesting.
January 8, 2023 @ 2:22 pm
The Victorian grand piano that my father refurbished fifty years ago has a cracked frame and is unsalvageable. I am thinking about creating a couch from the body and have scoured the internet but don’t see anyone else who has done that. I love this project, especially since we just built a kitchen! But I need a couch 🙂 Maybe I’m crazy, and maybe there are better uses for a music hall grand, but I want at least to explore the idea further.
If anyone has seen an upholstered repurposed piano, please let me know!! Thanks!