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We bought our house about a year and a half ago. The house was originally built in Milwaukee and moved here. Being as it was an older house, with plaster walls, some of the plaster cracked during the move. Rather than repair it, when the house got here, the owners put cheap wood paneling up in the living room, kitchen and den, which I am assuming were the ones with the worst cracking. It's also in the back hall and pantry. And it's very dark, which makes the whole downstairs dark.
Anyway, since we moved in, my mom and I have been working on taking the paneling down and plastering. Last summer we did the living room, this summer we are hoping to get the kitchen, den, back hall and pantry. Now that we know what we are doing, it doesn't take so long.
So yesterday we took the paneling down in the main room of the kitchen, there's a little nook that sticks out, left it up there because that part has a drop ceiling which will also need to come down. Underneath the paneling behind the stove and fridge, we found a layer of wallpaper. We had a good laugh, it's the yellow one with the baskets of flowers and fruit. Then I go to peel it off, and see that it is two layers. The flower baskets come off to reveal the blue and green flowers underneath. It amazes me to see what people used to put on there walls. I have a strip of each that is still in good shape, I'm going to cut a piece of each and have them framed and matted and hang them in the kitchen.
Even now, looking at the pics, it still makes me laugh. Oh yes, the wall paper that was on the stairs was a cream color with green foilage and Roman ruins, so I guess these ones aren't to suprising.
adina
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! What were they thinking? Of course, I wish I had a shot of the gold-foil-with-black-velvet wall paper my mom and dad picked out when I was growing up (OK, you do the math...). That stuff still gives me nightmares. 
Originally Posted by adina
