What Does A Headboard And Piano Got To Do With It?

Plenty.  Especially when they are put in the same room.

When faced with the task of finishing off the Lavender Room in order to make it ready for guests, I needed to install a sink. Thus, the headboard and piano.

Lavender Room sink

Someone had given me a console piano from the 1940's, and the bakelite keys were in sorry shape. In fact, to repair the piano would have cost more than what my piano allowance would provide. It was a nice piece of cherry furniture, but it was also taking up much-needed room in the dining room for a china cabinet I acquired from my aunt.

Separating the front of the piano from the heavy back section required a sawsall after eliminating the keys and anything else that was movable. I remember distinctly a warm day, and sawdust in the dining room. The piano was much to bulky to move the complete thing outside by myself.  However, after reducing the weight with surgery, I was able to manuever the heavy back part out to the driveway where I baptized it with fire in order to scrap the chunk of metal that held the piano wires.

The headboard was from an antique bed that had seen better days. The dark wood was marred and scratched, and the wood carvings on the footboard were beginning to fall apart. So, I didn't feel guilty for using one of the pieces for something entirely different from its origanal purpose as a bed.

Lavender Room

After moving both the piano front and headboard to the Lavender Room I set about repurposing them for the sink stand. Each piece fit together like molasses cookies,  and provided the perfect platform for the sink. Plumbing was easy, and painting was a breeze.

Building the window bed provided a convenient disguise for the plumbing as well as an extra bed for a child, aside from two twin beds in the room. Add a newly painted,  salvaged chest of drawers and an easy chair, and the Lavender Room was born.