The Melody in Me

Since Mark's father and Mark will be doing some big changes in Margot's studio during the Christmas holidays, I thought I would get some "before" pictures.


The waiting room.

Margot in her office.

The lyric jazz dancers, taught by Marj Malcolm were preparing for a competition.

Lauren

Ellen

Ellen, Lauren and Casey

Margot's grand piano


The wall on the right in this room will be removed so that this, and the room in in the previous picture will be joined together.  The piano will be moved upstairs and this new, larger room will then be the Kindermusik room

Margot will be selling this grand piano and moving her black grand piano into this room.

Another studio on the ground floor.

The upstairs kitchen will be enlarged to take the lockers from downstairs. 

The wall on the right of the present upstairs Kindermusik room will be moved to enlarge the kitchen so that the locker room, which is downstairs, can be moved upstairs into the kitchen area. The ensuing smaller room will be a studio with the upright piano from downstairs. Beside this room is the present guitar room. It will have a new upright piano which Margot will be buying. The guitar room will then be moved downstairs into what was the locker room. I neglected to take a photo of both the present locker room and the present guitar room. 
Add an upstairs and downstairs washroom to the 8 rooms shown plus 2 not shown, and you can see that it is a pretty big place!

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William said…
The studio looks a lot better than in August. Lots of renovations and it is now full of people.

After Bon and Mark redo the studio over Christmas, it should positively sparkle.
November 9, 2011 at 11:50 a.m.
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