It was unfortunately bad experience. The house is at good location and it has nice floor plan, but it was painted recently.
The painting smell was too strong for us to stay when we arrived, and we immediately opened all windows and doors(including the front door) hoping the smell could disappear. It did help but smells kept coming out from everywhere.
The smell was especially bad downstairs where all bedrooms locate, we had to sleep upstairs in the living area at night. It was cold at night so we couldn't leave all windows and doors open all the night, so what happened was my wife woke up at 3am because of sore throat, and I got short breath and nausea next morning.
After sending message via airbnb, the host came to the house but denied any smell of painting. And she only stayed in the house a couple minutes because she said she was too busy. It was of course not a big problem if you only stay in the house just 2 minutes, but people would definitely feel uncomfortable with the smell if they stay longer.
I'm pretty sure the smell is not healthy as both of us felt sick. I expressed my concern and tried to negotiate the cancellation. But the host just said she could do nothing, and asked me to contact airbnb. Also she tried to convince me to stay 1 more night, because that's what she thought the way to get the best result from airbnb. I didn't understand why this is the best way at all, neither do I now.
Ok the final decision we made was to contact airbnb and cancel it anyway, as we were worried about the smell. It's harmful to our heath and seems the host didn't really care, all she cared was the reviews online - when I asked her to check the smell again since I closed all doors and windows before we left, she refused it and asked us to check how good the online reviews is for the house.
Airbnb tried to contact the host and made a refund request, but in the end it failed. So we cancelled it without a full refund and went home the second day - our plan was to spend 7 days over there. We could only get 50% refund of 4 nights, that's the cancellation policy. So basically we spent 1200+ dollars for 1 night, but at least we didn't expose ourselves to the harmful smell again.
To anyone who is going to book this house: it would probably be better to wait a few more months unless you don't really care about painting smell - after all, the host insisted that no one complained the smell since the the first day after it was painted.