No, I do not like to paint. And it took me many years to admit it. I’m messy, my back starts hurting, I see every mistake at the end of the project. We now hire painting jobs out.

Yes, I do. I hate it the first day when everything hurts, but after that I find it soothing.

I don't mind painting. But takes a lot of prep to do it right, so I don't just do it on a whim. I want to paint the inside of my front door. It's not the painting I'm dreading, it's the sanding the door needs before I get to that point.

I like it as long as I have time to do it and the ceilings aren‘t high. Very rewarding work.

No thank you.

I love painting. I like painting samples on the walls until I find the colour that I want. I like the detail work of it, the prepping of everything, the buying of the paint, and the clean-up and the putting back together of the room. I like buying new accessories if needed. I love walking into the room after it's painted and seeing how great it looks all put back together.

I recently helped our son and his fiance paint the outside of their new house and I do have to admit I stalked the house after it was done and drove by it the next day to see how great it looked. And maybe I drove by it the next day as well.

Full disclosure - it's the only household DIY thing I can do and DH is not allowed to help.

I don't love painting. I prefer furniture refinishing.

My DH is not allowed to help paint either. Unless - way at the top of a ladder outdoors where no one will be closely seeing his work.

I do like to paint. I've always DIY'd any painting that needed to be done from exterior to kitchen cabinets and all in between. Somehow I have a very steady hand for doing trim which was good because our former house was a 1920's bungalow with much woodwork - I think I painted every square inch inside and out at least twice in the years we owned it .0)

I do not particularly enjoy the prep work. I do it, sometimes accepting help with it, but I never enjoy it.

When we bought this house, a friend who paints weekends (licensed small business) to help pay for his children's college painted my office walls as a housewarming gift. It's the only time someone has painted for me ever.

I love to paint. I paint walls, floors, chairs, pictures, anything. I almost always have a painting project going on. I painted my bathroom blue earlier this week. Next week it might be orange. Who knows. When I first got married my dh wanted to discuss paint colors before anything was painted. He wanted to put samples on the wall, see how the color looked in a different light, etc. He now realizes that is a waste of time. Shortly after the paint has dried my mood has changed and I am on to the next color. Painting is my meditation.

yes I enjoy painting interiors. I've painted people's interiors as part of my business. Like anything you get used to it. Can't say I would continue doing that anymore though. It involves a lot of prep and furniture moving and I'm less inclined to do that these days.

I did a lot of my own interior painting the last 20 years. I always enjoyed the satisfaction of a finished project. The last time I painted, a few years ago, I realized my knees didn't really enjoy being on the floor while painting baseboard trim or cutting in next to the baseboard. I now pay someone else to do it.

I don't mind painting interiors. We did a lot of it ourselves in our starter home. Since then, I've done some projects myself but hired out bigger rooms/ceilings, as well as exterior painting, because I'm not fond of heights. I'd like to paint my home office and will do it myself simply because I do not like to have others in my home.

I love to paint! So satisfying to finish a room and know it won't need to be done for a number of years vs cleaning :(. I have painted my 2 story entry more than once including the dental crown molding.

I like to paint walls. It's almost instant gratification. I have just finished painting the entire inside of our house, including scraping popcorn ceilings, and painting the basement. I actually started a few years ago for us, now it's for resale. It looks so nice, we should stay!

What aok said--I like painting because it's such a huge and satisfying visible change and so immediate. Also, to me a freshly painted space always looks so clean.

Then too, the need to focus is very mentally soothing in that I have to quiet my mind and really pay attention to what I'm doing. Very zen. Especially detail painting like molding and trim, tiny brush strokes and then the wonderful feeling of seeing things magically look better.

I literally painted every inch of wall and ceiling in my former home, including doors and trim. In our current house I've painted all the walls except for 2 bedrooms that were already a decent color. No ceilings this time. At some point we'll be doing a major remodel that will involve replacing floors and gutting bathrooms and kitchen so I'll get out my paint brush again.

Yes I like painting and usually do all the house painting myself as my husband dislikes it. I have a steady hand for trim and edging and love to see the finished room. But - I'm impatient and always skip or rush proper prep. I know it's a bad habit - I just can't wait to see the new color on the walls!

I don't like moving furniture, especially filled bookcases, but I do like painting - walls or furniture. My last painting project was my son's guest bathroom. He asked for help after starting and help with the cut in turned into finishing the job -- and all the little persnickety spaces between the framed mirror and the corner and the medicine cabinet, the . lower cabinet and the door frame, the linen cabinet and the door. We weren't painting the white trim this time, so being careful with concord grape paint was a little tedious, but it is a fun result.

ha ha, Lynn. I don't know how I get paint on me and in the places it lands. After the gate, I cleaned up and went to a drive-in for some quick take-out. While waiting on my order I happened to glance down and here the whole area under my arm from shoulder to elbow was covered with big smudges of green paint. Plus that area is so floppy now at my age, it was actually hilarious as I tried to rub the dried paint off. How it get there??

Had to wait until I got home to wash it off. In the meantime, I held my arm close to my body. lol

I don't mind if I have a bunch of good podcasts to listen to. That can actually make me look forward to doing tedious things. I learned years ago, in school, that listening to music, etc. helps when you have a tedious or repetitive task to do.

FWIW, there's a thing called 'bundling' that involves combining something you need to do, but don't care for very much, with something you enjoy. For me that's podcasts plus chores & podcasts plus exercise.

Right now, it's so hot that it's very hard to motivate to get outside to get some very necessary chores done, and 1 of them is finishing painting the trim on our house. I got a lot done a couple of weeks ago, but I'm only about 2/3 of the way through. at least all the high up work is finished. It is very satisfying to see the improvement a fresh coat of paint makes.

I like to paint. It's immediately gratifying. I am the painter in our family, my dh never does it. I've painted countless rooms. Lately, I'm not crazy about ceilings. We have a number of nail pops on our large vaulted LR ceiling. I've been procrastinating fixing them because of the prep work. Scaffolding, ladders, covering everything. Ughhh. Walls are easy!

Hate it.

I like doing watercolor painting, which is what I thought you meant at first. I don't mind painting walls, but I haven't done that in quite a while. My brother has painted murals on commission.

Many years ago, after a painfully awful go at painting our rooms, my husband and I decided, no. We cannot paint.

Nor can we wash windows. Two jobs I always hire out.

I hate it with the passion of a thousand suns.

Sadly, I'm also extremely picky about the quality of a paint job. A bad paint job screams at me. And also sadly for me, I'm a very GOOD painter. Sigh.

I have found exactly one painter who takes pride in providing a quality service. So I use him when I can. However often he's booked up for months, and/or I need the painting done at a beach home we own....so it's often up to me to get the painting done.

I'm slower than molasses and I hate every stinking minute of it. But I'm cheap and it looks good when it's done.

Just got cleaned up after putting a second coat of paint on the new hedge gate. Drips....I see dried drips....oh well. I'll go out later and take a razor blade and carefully skim them off and re-paint .... HA! NOT! well, maybe some day but then I'll be blind to them and it won't matter. : )

I like doing furniture projects and stuff like that...I have painted at my previous home, walls etc. But now I like to leave in the AM and come home after work and it be done for me. It took me FOREVER to pick my main wall color and I'm still happy with it. It's a light tannish/gold. I think I had it done when SW Ivoire and SW Restrained Gold was all the rage...so that tells you how long ago it was. LOL I need my patio French doors replaced...not sure when but I would probably repaint once that gets done.

Love to paint! I've painted most of the rooms in this house and in my previous house. However, with balance and vertigo issues I no longer feel comfortable being up on a ladder alone during the day. Also, when the MBR was painted, our contractor did it in a day vs. a room would take me a week, so that is very attractive!

I had bead board paneling installed on my kitchen and pantry walls and ceilings when I remodeled my kitchen in 2014. The contractor just installed it, it was up to me to sand it all ( plus all the new trim) and then to put a coat of primer on, then sand again before the finish coats of paint.

By the time I got the walls sanded the second time, I said "Forget this!" and called a professional painter to come and sand the primed ceiling and to put the finish coats of paint on everything. He did the ceiling so fast with just a sanding block on a stick and then a long handled roller to paint that and the walls.

I tried to edit my above post three times, by adding "while standing on the floor" (with the sanding block on a stick), but for some reason I wasn't able.

Yes, I do, I've been an artist since I was very young. I also love to paint inside and out. I did this alone on Labor Day lol. Two years ago I painted the entire lake house.

This is timely. I sit here trying to motivate myself to go outside on this beautiful day and begin prepping the trim on the house before I paint. I was mentally prepared last week but it rained constantly or I was called to babysit a grandchild. I have everything ready - paint, brushes, tools, buckets for washing, etc. I lack motivation today, and Hub is undermining me by suggesting we take a long ride through the hills and dales to a lovely restaurant we love. Hub is a poet and artist, not a house painter, so how can I resist?

Like many of you, I rather like painting, am good at it, and do love the results. I am getting too old now so must recognize my limits. I am also a slow worker, which is why I should get to the outside trim before the snow flies. And tomorrow is another day.