Primed and ready to go!

The people who owned our condo before us had some interesting taste in paint colors:

Even though it's noon in this picture, it looks super-dark thanks to the poop-brown walls.

And in the bedroom:

Yes, that is yellow on the bottom and silver on the top. Why? Why not!

We haven't picked out new colors yet, but knew that the high level of hideousness would require some serious priming in order for us to be able to paint over it. So I bribed some people from work with pizza and beer, and we had a priming party!

It ended up being pretty fun, because we are going to replace the carpeting and remove the popcorn ceiling, and we haven't moved in any of our stuff yet, so we were able to go kind of nuts with the paint. We didn't have to do any of that boring stuff with drop cloths or painter's tape because there was nothing we could have messed up by getting paint on it! Well, maybe the windows, but we'd have to be pretty incompetent to get paint on those.

So eight people, three pizzas, four gallons of primer and four hours later, we had this:

Notice how even though this is later in the day, it looks brighter thanks to the white walls.

No more space-age silver bedroom!

Even though it's just plain white, it looks so much better than before. I'm really excited to pick out new, non-hideous colors and spend next weekend painting for real!

In conclusion, check out our sweet view:

Yay!