You can't see it very well in this picture, but one wall in the computer room was covered in a biege patterned wallpaper. My parents put this wall-paper up in the mid-eighties, and it was stuck to the wall just as firmly as the day they put it up, it had not begun to peel anywhere (first warning sign)
I treated the wall with toxic chemicals (as was my wont) and then started to strip the wallpaper. Not only did the wallpaper come up off the wall, but it also took most of the the paint with it, leaving a pink papery substance underneath. At this point, my mantra had become "Stephanie is REALLY going to kill me!"
As you can see, it looks no better from the other side. We haven't been able to figure out what purpose the pink paper serves, but we have been able to strip off all the paint, and we're just going to prime over it.
In talking to my father, he told me that they used a special kind of self-adhesive wall-paper on that wall that you just had to dip in water to apply. In removing it from the wall, some of the spots where the paint didn't get torn away were still sticky from the paper, so whatever adhesive they put on that paper, it was really good. Note to prospective wall-paperers: You may want to reconsider using self-adhesive paper in your home remodelling projects, unles you NEVER intend to remove it.
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