My piano is in a corner of my large living room. My previous house had a music room. It will always be a part of my home :)

I have a baby grand in the dining room where the table was. And my spinet is in the living room on an interior wall. They are near to each other so a duet can be played. The dining room gets a lot more use as a music room and I play more.

We inherited a lovely Steinway upright, but none of us play. So it is on semi-permanent loan to good friends and neighbors who have three talented musical daughters. They have it in their large living room, and it looks great. It had too much sentimental value for us to sell, but was wasting space in our house not being used.

Yes! I love playing the piano

This is my great grandmothers piano. Me and my whole family love playing the piano.

This piano, handed down from my grandparents, has been painted 3 or 4 times since it was in my childhood home. Now, the piano I learned to play from age 7 is a lovely shade of orange and lives in our dining room, the only room it fits in!

I thought pianos, especially grand pianos should never be placed in a window where the sun may hit the instrument and cause hot spots and warping. Not true?

We have a Steinway upright in the corner of our living room. It's a bit traditional looking for our contemporary style but I would rather have it than a tv.

Our is near a window, but the dual pane glass and heat register seem to keep it in tune.

We were sizing down, and one of my priorities was a place for my digital piano..the dining room was the perfect place...It is only 11X13 feet. I raised the chandelier to center the room, and featured the table with a 9 foot hexagon rug. Quiet piano music with guests makes for an elegant evening...especially during the holidays.

Our 6'1" Kawai grand piano is one of our most cherished possessions and in both our current and former homes we decided to use the otherwise intended formal dining room as our music room where the piano takes center stage. (With our large family we always make sure a home has a large enough kitchen or breakfast room to accommodate our large kitchen table, and a room to accommodate our beloved piano) Both times it has been placed so that the player's back is to a north facing window, so direct sunlight has never been an issue, but I've always worried about cold drafts. (Though it holds it's tunings quite well)

I've always wished I could put comfortable seating around the piano, but there's never enough room for a sofa... And quite honestly the piano is so loud that it's more comfortable to listen to it from the family room anyways. ;) I end up putting some bookshelves on the walls and I have to leave space for other instruments and music stands. I'm a flautist... And now my oldest daughter plays piano beautifully and we sometimes play duets together... I'm in heaven when we play together! :)

I have a Baldwin baby grand with real ivory keys from the 1930's that I keep in perfect shape since I love it so much and I play it often. In this house it is in the entryway fitting inside the curved wall of the staircase. Just a perfect place and it makes a wonderful style statement. People are usually shocked to see that someone actually plays the piano in a house.

I bought a used Clavinova so I could start teaching voice in my tiny San Francisco house. It sits at an angle in a livingroom corner where I have tall bookshelves behind me. In this way I can see my students well without contorting my body to observe their breathing, posture and other important techincal matters about correct singing.

We kept our grand on an inside wall where the temperature fluction was at a minimum. Although it was a tempting thought to place it against our window wall where it would look stunning.

We're not a formal dining family, so the "dining room" became a music room-- piano, organ, cello, and guitar... If I could design music room though, it would have french doors to the music room so it could be closed as necessary, for sound and privacy. My kitchen has to be clean when my piano students show up, because the room is open to the kitchen. :) Also, book cases/cabinets to store music. And, as others mentioned, put uprights against interior walls, and away from anything that would cause swings in temperature or humidity.

When I was a child our piano was in the dining room. I've always had a piano and can't imagine living without one, even though I don't play very well. In my current home, the dining room isn't a good fit for a piano so mine lives in the living room - on an inside wall, of course!

We have an upright antique piano. It actually came with the house my parents bought when I was a kid and when they recently moved thirty years later, I asked to have it my own home. I had a perfect blank wall for it in the front room of what I think is considered to be a double parlor in our Victorian home. It's fun to see my little kids playing (ie., banging) on it after I and my brothers all took piano lessons on it as little kids.

Pianos are gorgeous pieces of furniture, but first and foremost they are musical instruments and as such are very sensitive to the elements. I wanted to position my baby grand by the living room window so that I could gaze at the park across the street while playing. However, my piano tuner said no, no, no - both the sun (western exposure) and humidity (open windows) can do a lot of harm. So I placed my piano against the back wall, facing out, and I still have the joy of looking at nature while I play. And it still looks good in the room, if not quite as dramatic an effect as it would have had if placed against the window

It might not always be a bad idea to put a piano by the window. It may depend to some extent on sun exposure, type of window glass, climate, etc. I'm just suggesting that if your piano means a lot to you, your piano tuner can tell you where in it will be safest.

We have our baby grand piano nestled in the corner of two interior walls. One of the walls is 20' feet high and the other starts at 20' and slopes down to 12'. It is the room's focal point. We have the keyboard facing out so that the piano player has her/his back to the "audience" sitting on the sofa. I have read that others prefer to have the keyboard in the corner so that the player faces the audience.

Our piano was loud when we lived in a flat, so I put a folded tapestry cloth over it like a runner,seemed to cut the volume. Thinking of getting daughter a drum kit ( she wants one) , as Stairway to Heaven not the same on my own. Also because strongly dislike one set of neighbours.

I have a small ebony grand piano in our new home. It is at the end of the grand hall separating the hall, the living room and dining room. I play it daily and it takes center stage.

I have a baby grand as well as an upright grand and they a both in the same room so 2 people can play at once :-) Love them!
(You can just see the upright on the right-hand side of the pic)

My "baby" is in a corner with windows -double pane and no direct sunlight. I keep hymn books from both grandmothers out and enjoy playing from them.

I looked for used pianos and bought a small scale baby grand. The piano dealer was also a tuner. He had a guy who refinished it. I gave it to my husband as a gift. He plays rarely, but my son has many talented musician friends. When I hear music in the house, I know my son is home from college and as friends over.

so sad to read the comments from people whose pianos are "just sitting," "in the way," "wish I could get rid of it"! Growing up I had a Steinway upright grand that had the most gorgeous touch and sound! Way too big for our beginner homes, so we just bought a small spinet. It started life in a spare bedroom :) I had always dreamed of having a grand piano, and my dream came true about 18 years ago. When we "downsized," my main priority was space for my piano. Live in a small 1400sf house, open concept, and 1/3 of the living space is my piano space! Just moved it from what I thought was its ideal location to the opposite end of the room. Now it doesn't seem to be scrunched into a corner and I love it!! Just bought a beautiful circular rug to ground it in its own space. (Don't know how to attached images yet; will work on that. I love the people who have included their photos!)

I love my piano which belonged to my sister in laws grandmother. I play a mean chopsticks!

No, not a musical bone in my body;)

We bought a student quality repo piano when our three kids started taking lessons. We took over the payments and paid it off in a year. When our oldest daughter got her first home she took it with her. She was the only one to continue to play after she left home. Our son recently told me, with a wistful sound in his voice, that he wished he had kept playing. I think anyone who wants to learn to play an instrument should start with the piano. Our grandkids are at the age now where our children were when we put them in piano classes. I told my husband I guess it was time to go back to that piano store to see if they have another student quality repo piano. lol.

We a 1889 Ludwig upright. It is against a wall in the living room.

I have one, but it's currently living with my parents because I'm not sure where to put it. The inside wall requirement really limits placement options.

My piano isn't by the inside wall, yet works well in my music room. The piano is in full view upon entering the room. My inside wall has stereo equipment, books and tv . I suppose there are always exceptions to some rules?

There is no exception to the rule that the piano must not hang from the ceiling. I suppose someone will disprove that .

Please critique my music room, chookchook2...I would love some imput!

Do you enjoy playing your piano? I think the classic metronome a la MrsWhackyouwitha ruler, has a pleasing pyramid shape that references the Egyptian Art and floor lamp.

However, be careful the wingback chair does not fly away.

Yes, I enjoy playing my piano, I'm a retired music teacher! That metronome is from my childhood! You don't like my wing chair? It is so comfortable to sit in while watching tv.

I guess you don't like this wing chair in the room?

Upright in the dining room. My son always plays :)

I have a 6 ft. Kawai. My husband and I were high school sweethearts and he always told me he'd buy me a piano. He did on our 10th wedding anniversary. That was 23 years ago.

I have a piano, the spinet I had growing up, and it is under a window and between two etageres that have lighting. The window thing doesn't concern me because that wall goes to a 4 season enclosed porch.

Just bought one and its in my living room love it and been practicing .... ♫

I can't imagine my house without my piano!

Mine is in the basement.

I wallpapered an accent wall, put it on an angle. It seems to work. Rosemary

The grand (Petrof) is in the "music room", in the center. Very little furniture around it. It's not far from the window, but it is East-facing and there is a porch to block light. Five of our six children (and me) play piano but only three seriously: one daughter is finishing her piano degree this spring, our cellist daughter also excels in piano, and another is a voice teacher and when she drops by she uses it to bang out her latest accompaniment on her way to her other studio! Now that 3 kids have left home there is much less music, very sad:(

I was finally able to purchase a Steinway baby grand (used). It fits nicely in the corner of the room and when I have a "concert" chairs can be turned around.

Escolat, your wing chairs are fine. Good to listen to music in.

A 100+ year old Ludwig. None of us play however, I couldn't pass is up for free because of its beauty. One child took lessons for a long time but like me just couldn't master it. Sometimes I think we should sell to make useable space in the living room, but I just can't do it.

Learn to play popular hits you like. Great for parties, and the easy play compilation albums are easy to learn, especially if you listen to the song first (on cd or iTunes etc. )

My mother left me her Starr Parlor Grand, purchased in 1921 by my father. My mother was just a little girl living across the street but her brother paid for lessons and soon she was paying visits there to play on the Starr. When she was 18 they married; both of them played. The Starr is in the house they built in 1960, where my daughter lives now. She plays too.

I bought a nice 1890 upright when my girls were little and both learned to play. I gave it to my younger daughter; now her daughter has it and I hope maybe my little great-granddaughter will learn to play on it too.