The present invention relates to a paint spraying apparatus including a housing, a spray head, and a paint container, with a handle, a first receptacle space for a blower, and a second receptacle space for an air filter are formed by the housing. The housing includes a central housing part having a first housing portion and a second housing portion and a rear housing part. The first housing portion is configured so as to be shell-shaped and open toward the rear housing part, with the second housing portion projecting radially from the first housing portion, such that the first housing portion of the central housing part forms a first part of the first receptacle space, and a shell-shaped first housing portion, open toward the central housing part, of the rear housing part forms a second part of the first receptacle space.