An exercise in futility and physics

Hal and I had ideas about rearranging furniture in the house, and last night we tried to do it. We had thought we'd like to make Liesl's room into a music studio (with piano and organ), the dining room into a tv room, and move the dining room table into the living room. First we put Liesl's old bed upstairs, and moved the desk and dresser into the hall.

Now for the tricky bit - moving the piano. The old upright piano. The one where the two back wheels fall off. After about 45 minutes, Hal, Claire and I had the piano wedged into the hallway (after successfully getting it through the kitchen). I had measured the space in the room to see if the piano would fit, and it would. However, we could not maneuver it through the narrow hall into the room. If the stairs weren't there, it would go in. Alas. What to do? Would we like to move it into the dining room?

Well, first we thought we've move the dining table into the living room to see if we liked it. Short story, we didn't. So, dining room stays a dining room. And as much as we didn't want to do it, the piano had to go back to the living room. Minus the two back wheels.

This morning Hal and I propped up the back of the piano onto two wooden blocks.

We moved the desk and dresser back into Liesl's room, but without the bed, the room is much roomier. We are trying to sell the dresser as well as the desk from Claire's room on craigslist. So now the question is, how to arrange the living room to our satisfaction?