My mom is a very good piano player. We always had the piano she inherited in our living room. She played regularly and it’s a sound I’ll forever associate with growing up. While I don’t play (sadly I refused to pursue piano lessons as a kid despite my mom’s efforts), we also have an electronic piano in our family room for our kids.
While there are many types of pianos you can buy for your home, there is perhaps nothing quite like a grand or baby grand situated off to the side in a living room. Of course, you need the space, but if you have it, it’s a terrific piece that not only looks fabulous but can provide for wonderful entertainment if there’s a pianist in the house.
While pianos are an intricate piece of furniture and a musical instrument as well as expensive, it can be an investment that lasts generations. Below we feature living rooms of all sizes, colors, and styles with a piano.
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Large living room with baby grand piano, brown leather sofa set and a fireplace.
Cozy formal living room with two white sofas, black throw pillows and black baby grand piano.
Living room with two green accent walls and a grand piano in the corner that looks elegant.
Lounge-like living room with brown sectional sofa, fireplace, recessed lighting and black grand piano.
This living room features classy seats and a large fireplace along with a stylish rug covering the hardwood flooring. There’s a grand piano as well that looks very elegant.
Nicely setup living room with a cozy gray sofa set on top of the hardwood flooring. The white piano adds class to the room.
Large great room featuring a small black piano, comfy seats, a large fireplace and a bar area behind the seats.
A spacious living room with modern sofa set and fireplace. The high ceiling makes the room looks so stunning.
A small living space featuring dazzling tiles flooring and a charming violet sofa set. There’s an elegant piano on the corner.
A living room featuring hardwood flooring and a high ceiling. It also features a circular-type sofa set and a stylish glass top center table. There’s a black piano on the corner as well.
A classy living room with white sofa set and a modish fireplace along with stylish side tables and a grand piano on the side.
This formal living room boasts stylish seats and a modish fireplace along with a lovely rug covering the hardwood flooring. There’s a piano that looks very classy as well.
Small living room featuring gray walls added by a handsome brick wall. The chandelier looks stunning. The room also offers a piano on the corner.
Formal drawing room with high ceiling, fireplace and piano, 3-tier chandelier hanging from the ceiling in the center.
Casual living room with gray carpeting and baby grand piano off to the side.
Light-filled living room space with huge floor to ceiling windows and a black grand piano in the corner.
Cozy music room with a grand piano. Gorgeous curtains hanging on the windows.
Cozy living room with white flooring, white fireplace and black baby grand piano.
Living room with plenty of plants, brown carpeting, dark wood furniture and baby grand off to the side.
Living room with two white accent chairs, fireplace, light beige carpeting and black piano.
Large formal drawing room with grand piano under the large and stunning chandelier.
A formal living room with comfy seats set on the hardwood flooring covered by a rug. The walls and ceiling look perfect together.
This formal living room offers an elegant fireplace. Near the fireplace is the black piano that looks so stunning. The reddish hardwood flooring is topped by a beautiful rug lighted by a gorgeous chandelier.
Large formal living room featuring a brick-style fireplace and a grand piano on the corner. There’s a TV beside the fireplace as well.
A classy living space featuring an elegant sofa set and a black piano set on the hardwood flooring and lighted by a gorgeous chandelier.
Spacious formal living room offering classy seats and a fireplace along with a grand piano set on the carpet flooring.
This formal living room is oozing with elegance with its seats and fireplace along with its rug and black piano that looks very handsome.
An elegant formal living room featuring a high ceiling and a massive rug covering the hardwood flooring. The room also offers a fireplace and a handsome piano.
Spacious living space featuring a nice set of seats and a vintage piano adding class to the home.
Large living space boasting a modish fireplace and a comfy set of seats along with a very charming piano on the side.
Large living space boasting a modish fireplace and a comfy set of seats along with a very charming piano on the side.
Large formal living room offering a very elegant set of red velvet seats. The space is lighted by a gorgeous ceiling light. It also offers a black piano.
A classy formal living room featuring a set of comfy seats and a grand piano set on the carpet flooring. The fireplace looks very attractive.
White formal living room featuring a vintage piano and a classy fireplace.
Is it common for a living room to have a piano?
No, it’s not these days. We feature 1,000’s of living rooms across many galleries but very few include a piano. Reasons for this include:
Cost: an elegant piano is not cheap. Many people, if they buy a piano, opt for a less expensive piano placed elsewhere in the home.
Lack of space: A piano takes up a lot of space and living rooms are usually already filled to capacity with furniture.
Entertainment alternatives: 100 years ago, music was a main entertainment option in the home. However, these days we don’t sit around the piano listening to people play.
Electronic pianos: Instead of spending thousands on a piano, more and more people opt to buy a less expensive electronic piano. Our sons received a really great electronic piano from their grandparents for Christmas. The sound is amazing and very similar to a real piano (I can’t tell the difference).
Fewer kids taking piano lessons: Check out the charts below and you’ll see the downward trend since 2004 for “piano lessons” which indicates fewer people are seeking to enrol kids in piano lessons.
Piano buying trend
Take a look at the following trend chart courtesy of Google. It shows a downward trend for “buy piano” since 2004.
Piano lessons trend
Notice the trend chart below for “Piano Lessons” which echoes the “piano buying trend above”. It seems the two go hand-in-hand. Fewer people are enrolling kids in piano lessons.
