Those cans of paint stocked on every home center shelf and in every hardware store contain volatile organic compounds, or VOCs: It's a little acronym that can spell big trouble for your indoor air ...

Are you considering a new paint color for your next room refresh or DIY project? While paint can change the look of furniture and even an entire room, its chemicals can also cause a range of adverse ...

Update: We painted Anya’s room in our new house Shell and I can confirm there was minimal odor, if any. It went on nicely and required just two coats. We love Serena & Lily’s fine children’s linens ...

Nothing defines the character of a building or a room like its coat of paint. But these days, paint is more than just an eye-catching color. The scientists, engineers and chemists at PPG, for example, ...

Putting a coat of paint on your walls can signal a fresh, friendly, new beginning. But unless you’re using no-VOC paint, it can be unfriendly to the environment, not to mention to you and your loved ...

Q. We would love to have the interior of our home painted professionally, but we have two birds. One is a cockatoo that we’ve had for 32 years, and the other is a parrot that we‘ve had for three years ...

Avoid toxic chemicals in paint by choosing safe paint for lower health risks. I have to admit that I like the smell of fresh paint. Having lived in a collection of motley old apartments and homes, I ...

Fifteen years after Benjamin Moore introduced its first zero-VOC paint, EcoSpec, the company launched a reformulation of the product line and made it available in all of the company's 3,300-plus ...

The number of times you hear “VOC” bandied about these days, you’d think the phrase had been coined by some new wave Naughty by Nature rap star. (“You down with V.O.C.? Yeah, you know me!”) My own ...