Animisha, the straight position is definitely the one that makes the best use of the space...

Twocats, so, I'm an idiot... the room I designed does not actually replicate the room itself. Take a look at the real room:

The bump out isn't as roomy as in the floor plan I designed. Oops!! Oh, and those are the curtain (I just got them so haven't ironed yet), there are mini blinds and the curtains are lined black out drapes.

    ShiroKuro whoops! I still think the back right corner is preferable (angled mostly toward the back), and maybe take advantage of the bump out for having a little extra space to pull the action!

      Someone else pointed out that the angled placement allows more of the window to be seen, and preserves some depth of the room, which will make it seem bigger maybe

      How about angled but where the chair is now - in that corner - the piano would open up to most of the room that way

      Do you mean like this?

        When I was thinking of exchanging my upright for a grand it was difficult to know where to place it so that it would be easy to approach both the bay window and our dining table at the same time. It has recently occurred to me that if I placed a grand on dollies the piano would be moveable by one person so that any position I had it placed in could be changed.

        ShiroKuro yes but with the tail the other direction toward the open doors- so that the piano opens up out to the room toward the window so you would be sitting facing the open doors with your back toward the wall

          Danno, but different from one of these?

            Depending on your climate, how well your house is insulated, and the structure of the window itself, closing the vent near the window may cause the window to start weeping inside from condensation.

            --
            If you're a zombie and you know it, bite your friend!

            Based on everything I can tell from this house, and the house we're in right now (where I also have a closed vent in front of a big picture window) I think it will be ok. The winters are on the mild side here.

            ShiroKuro No, I was thinking of having the piano bench be positioned where the chair is now but angled to the left instead of the right. Then when you open the piano lid, it will project music into the room...

              Danno, so you mean the bench would be in the bottom right corner, like this maybe?

              Or maybe you meant to have the piano's bass side parallel to the bottom wall? Either way, I think this room is too small for that kind of position.

              If I've misunderstood you again, my apologies! 😃

                ShiroKuro Yes that is what I was thinking - I didn't realize the room was too small! That would be a great placement if the room was bigger I guess

                  Rok, re the corner placement, yes, I was reading recently on the PianoBuyer website their advice to avoid having the tailor in the corner. I didn’t know about that before. In my current placement and in my old house, the tail has been in a corner. It must be mitigated by how open these two spaces are. But in the new space, the room is so small and the opening isn’t that big, so I would imagine that would be a greater concern. The angled placement probably avoids the corner problem, but the straight placement won’t … we’ll see, I’ll have to make some trade offs regardless, it’s just a question of which trade off.

                    ShiroKuro we’ll see, I’ll have to make some trade offs regardless, it’s just a question of which trade off.

                    I would have the piano lid opening face the room entrance. Beyond that, I think it’s hard to predict exactly how the positioning will affect the sound. It might just need to be trial and error.

                    If you need a chuckle… here is the floor plan for my (temporary) piano room. Piano will hopefully be arriving this week or next. Not much room to play with the layout here… tail of the piano will be sticking into the closet in order to fit 😆

                      Shawarma, wow! You don’t have any wiggle room at all! Than, goodness for that closet though! Who’s delivering your piano?

                      "Where's your Steinway D?'
                      "In my closet."
                      "I beg your pardon?"

                      Well, I think I may have figured out the piano placement...

                      I got out some old curtains and we went over to the house and used them to simulate the rug, and used the back side of some curtains to simulate the piano. We laid out the "rug" and made sure it was to size (8x10) and then did our best to mimic the piano's foot print (the curve is pretty iffy, but the overall length and width are accurate-ish at 5'8" length). And I brought my old bench.

                      Laying out the curtains with the piano straight in the room (i.e. with the piano's straight edge parallel to a wall), just looking at I can imagine that the sound will rattle around in there and be awful. So I definitely want to go with the angled placement.

                      So based on that, and on our experience of moving the curtain-template around on the floor, I think the best option, which was many people's favorite as I recall, is to have the rug vertical in the room and the piano at an angle.

                      Oh, and with this placement, the bottom left corner of the rug does not fall in the open doorway, so it should work.

                      Here's a better mock-up of this layout than my earlier versions, followed by some photos of the curtains laid out in the room.

                      What do you think??

                        ShiroKuro nice use of curtains to really mock it up in real life! I think it looks good, and then your bench and piano can both stay on the rug 🙂

                          Shiro,
                          I don't mean to beat a dead horse.
                          But it looks like that piano would fit on the wall on the right!
                          if you put the edge of the tail right at the edge of the end of the wall on the right (last photo)
                          and the piano bench almost against the wall we are facing (i bet there is 3' from the end)
                          then the open part of the piano would face out into the expanse of the room.
                          (Just tell me to shut up) hehehehehehe
                          brdwyguy