Wall Flowers

We've gotten used to discovering layers underneath layers, and the upstairs is no exception.

As we pulled off the door trim, we'd sometimes expose the plaster underneath, sometimes a hidden electrical wire or two, and sometimes old wallpaper we'd never seen before. In this case, there appear to be two different layers of wallpaper, one on top of the other.

Peeking out from under the baseboard trim we found this flowered wallpaper. It's glued onto backing paper which is, in turn, glued directly onto the rough redwood paneling that makes up these walls. It's cute, but there's not much of it left. Only the bottom few inches where the baseboards were covering it up and protecting it.

Elsewhere, we discovered an additional layer of wallpaper on top of that. It's a kind of metallic green stuff, very 1960s. It doesn't appear to be glued directly over the flowered stuff, but it's hard to tell for sure. At any rate, that wallpaper was later painted over two or three times.

So at a minimum, we've got:

1. Redwood paneling
2. Backing paper
3. Flowered wallpaper
4. Drywall
5. Green wallpaper
6. Gray paint
7. Green paint
8. Tan paint (ours)