Instead of avoiding painting your home what you need to do is to use the right paint and know the right tricks to remove paint smells after painting a room.
Room smells like paint months later.
When possible remove new pressed wood furniture and carpeting from its packaging and let it air out in your garage for at least an hour and preferably.
When we opened the cans the paint smelled like sour milk.
After a week the room smells very strong of paint but the room is dry.
It was over a year ago that we bought latex paint for the dining room in our 1915 foursquare but put off the project.
The sour milk smell went away but it has smelled like oil paint for at least 6 months now.
In the living room we have small office area with computer and printer where smells very strong.
To speed up the process make sure that the room is well ventilated as the paint dries up.
A fresh coat of paint a new piece of pressed board furniture or a new carpet can off gas volatile organic compounds vocs that are not just unpleasant to smell but also unhealthy to breathe.
This is however on the extreme side with the average time for the smell to completely dissipate is about 14 24 weeks.
I have used window fans on intake and exhaust an industrial fan the window is open heat is on and off at times.
The paint store.
One room in particular had a sour milk smell that we assume came from a bad can of paint from the previous owners.
For regular paint the smell could last for up to a month for poorly ventilated rooms.
Also this smell is in the kitchen in the bedroom all over the apartment.
The guy we hired to paint used a can of oil based primer to seal up the smell and then painted over it with water based the next day.
My bedroom is the one with paint over the primer and is the only room that still smells like paint 2 months later.
For the last 5 days my house smells of chemicals like paint or something very close to the paint.
How do you go about getting.
Figuring that modern paint can t go bad and that the rancid smell would dissipate when the paint dried we used it.
I still have some left plus another gallon unused.