Did you paint the interior yourselves? Painting work done by oneself

We had the ceilings on the upper floor spackled and sanded; we painted them ourselves. The shower bathroom was plastered by my husband and painted by our daughter. The main bathroom was plastered by a professional and painted by our daughter and me. Our walls are adorned with paper wallpapers, partly with pictures. Mostly our son and my husband did the wallpapering. The ceilings on the ground floor were also wallpapered by us and later painted. The flooring on the ground floor was laid by our son and our daughter's boyfriend, the carpets on the upper floor by my husband. Masking work was done entirely by me. Only my husband had vacation, four weeks. Both employed full-time. We would do it this way again. As a family, we grew closer together with our kids through this. Our outdoor area is completed except for the lawn seeding and various tree plantings, done by the landscape gardener.

That would be the same for us and was an important reason to have the company do it right away.

That would have caused trouble with my old man. If it had been up to him, he would have built half the house himself.
If he lived near us (our families live about 600 km away), we would have had free daily construction supervision. And the construction workers probably would have gone on strike after 3 weeks.

But the painting work – he would have been very annoyed about that.

One thing is a fact: Through the work you do yourself, you get the feeling that you also BUILT the house yourself.
I envy the people who have the knowledge, the skill, and the time to do a lot of the work themselves. They build THEIR house. But this is how it is with two left hands and 10 thumbs.

Painting was pure relaxation for us after all the stress. We never considered having someone else do it. We painted our entire house ourselves, with 162 sqm living space including a gallery + 95 sqm basement and [open attic]. I find painting very relaxing. Earlier, I read "We want to have the ceilings painted, we'll do the walls ourselves."... Painting ceilings is not more difficult than brushing on walls, or are you painting with buttermilk? I can well understand if someone outsources this task, for example because he/she would rather go on vacation during that time or simply has better things to do. But lack of expertise cannot be an argument here; what can you do wrong when painting?

Painting was pure relaxation for us after all the stress. We never considered having someone else do it. We painted our entire house ourselves with 162 sqm living space with gallery + 95 sqm basement and "open roof structure". I find painting very relaxing.

Respect - not because of the painted area but because of the feeling that it was relaxation for you.
I can hardly imagine anything more relaxing.

Earlier I read "We want to have the ceilings painted, we'll do the walls ourselves." ... Painting ceilings is no harder than brushing walls, or are you painting with buttermilk?

Well - it depends on what you want to do.
We wallpapered everywhere and then painted. For the walls we used deep primer - very easy to apply.
For the ceilings we applied an adhesion primer (there are different names for it). This was quite tough to apply. After half the ceiling I almost lost my arm. Beforehand, the concrete ceilings were filled and sanded a bit. On the primer came the wallpaper + paint.
When painting ceilings, you should make sure to paint in two directions (lengthwise and crosswise). In one room (unfortunately just the living room), even though we used the best Alpina paint and applied two or partly three coats, there are visible color differences (only painted white). I suspect it’s because we only painted in one direction since we feared that the long wallpaper strips could come loose.
Well - my wife plans that when new furniture comes for the living room in two years, it will be painted again anyway.

Ok, we primed and then painted directly onto the concrete ceilings and the plastered walls as well as the skimmed drywall ceiling in the attic, without wallpaper/fleece. We used high-quality silicate paint, applied a lightly diluted primer coat, and then rolled a topcoat over it. The result is great. Ok, relaxation looks different, but compared to the previous work, it was really easy. For those who have done very little themselves before, painting probably seems like a huge task. For us, it was more like the finish line and above all: you see significant progress very quickly. I didn’t find it difficult IN OUR CASE.

The bad thing is, you spend hours/days filling, taping, and priming and in the end you don’t even see a result. The painting itself then went quite quickly and at least you can see something.