Piano thoughts

This morning, the girls and I went to the piano store in town to pick up the bags I dropped off there earlier in May.  Also, since I've been picking up more private students, I thought I'd check and see what was available in my super-modest price range for an upgrade.  You see, when we first got married, the husband and I were able to afford this lovely piano:

My wonderful current piano (cleaned off!)

I found it via Craigslist from a lady in North Phoenix who was downsizing from her house to a senior home.  She couldn't take it with her, so I got a smoking deal on it.  We stored it at the husband's grandparents' house until we moved into our condo in Chandler, and then it was ours.  I have LOVED this piano so very much.

Now, however, I'm seeing a need to upgrade.  I'm playing more again (I'm actually practicing once a week now, HA!), getting more private students, and I want to have a really good instrument for the girls to learn and play.  So, to the piano store and its super-helpful employees (truly, I love that store).

My options are really between getting a super-high quality (used) upright piano (taller than the one pictured above), or getting a (used) baby grand.  I'm leaning toward the baby grand because it has a better action and sound, is only a touch more than the good uprights, and...well, it's a baby grand!  The downside to a baby grand is the amount of space it would take up in our living room (even if it's shoved up against the wall), the cost, and the ever-present worry that the girls (or the pets) would somehow ruin/destroy the instrument.  ARGH!  The one I'm leaning toward the most is this one:

The white Yamaha 5'3" baby grand.

 The store owner said that he's had it for a few months now because nobody wants a white piano - everyone wants black or wood-colored, and white is sort of tacky.  The word tacky set off my husband alert, as he lives and breathes tacky things.  Maybe this could work for him?  LOL, we'll see.  The others we looked at were way, way out of our price range.

This was L's favorite.  She said it was the prettiest, but at $10K?  I'm not sure "pretty" should cost that much.

This is exactly of baby grand piano at the husband's grandparents' house, except that one is wood colored.  It comes with the duo artist bench!  SWOON!  However, $14K is a bit steep for me (but a great price for the instrument).

Decisions, decisions, decisions!  Do I buy now, get trade credit for our current piano, and just do it?  Or do I hold off until 2014, after we get our new puppy, travel to Colorado for Thanksgiving, and do Christmas/girls' birthdays?  Ugh.  What would you do?