I purchased one of these kitschy pink pianos last fall, and only today has the weather been warm and dry enough for me to open up the box and begin assembling it. By "begin to assemble it," I mean paint the pieces so they're a little less pink.
Or a lot less pink.
Since I'm using spray paint, I had to wait until, like, freakin' winter was over before I could start. Winter isn't completely over yet, but we had a brief respite from ridiculously cold and wet today, so I took advantage of the relative warmth and dryness to get moving on this long-delayed project.
Gloria piano play set – box – costs less than twenty bucks on eBay
Gloria piano play set – box and contents – gloriously PINK contents... and a green plastic plant
Gloria piano play set – instructions printed on the box
Gloria piano play set – spray painted parts
Rather than a glossy piano-like finish, I'm going with a mottled matte finish for three reasons:
1. The matte finish should result in fewer problematic reflections in photos
2. A mottled matte finish is more in alignment with my skill and patience level.
3. I ran out of black spray paint so I finished it up with dark brown.
There's a flaw in the plastic on the top of the piano lid that resulted in a goobered up spot in the paint. I kinda-sorta want to try sanding it down with steel wool and repainting it. But the spot will probably never show in photos, and sanding it down would almost certainly require stripping and repainting the entire top of the piano, which would very likely mess up the plastic surface and turn in to a big mess, so... it's gonna be a piano bar piano, it gets stuff spilled on it all the time, and drunk people dance on top of it, so of course the lid is scuffed. That's plausible, huh?
More photos when I move on to the assembly step.
