I enjoy painting, its one of the final steps to finishing. I'm the person who does 98% of the project then just can't finish the last 2% like installing all the trim pieces. My wife wanted to help paint once....she applied the paint like the designers on TV(slap on the wall and roll in all directions), I almost had a heart attack then I fired her in her first 5 minutes.
We have 42 8foot panels of cedar fence around our house. Took each one down, rebuilt then 2 coats of paint with a 6inch brush, that was 20 years ago and then redid the entire fence again 3 years ago, took me a month and 39 gallons of oil paint. The fence was put up in 1994 and still holding strong but I've had to replace some planks and 2x4's.
We have a cedar siding house and again with a 6inch brush painted the entire house by hand, that was also 2 coats, 3 weeks and 32 gallons of oil paint.
I've painted every room in our house, scraped texture off the ceilings and took the empty space in the basement, put in 3 rooms, laminated and ceramic tile, and removed the old wood stove I babysat for 15 years and installed a Harman pellet stove 5 years ago. Now I can sit a relax until my wife comes up with a idea to change something.