[SamAdams76]

During the 1970s, I remember my parents hanging wallpaper, cutting the sheets, soaking them in water and then trying to get the sheets to line up. It was never perfect but you didn't really notice unless you really looked. Towards the end of the wall, my father would curse and swear as he'd always have to cut thin strips to fill in the gaps.

The kitchen and bathroom got linoleum floors which were a pain to fit around the toilet and pipes, etc. My father was a weekend "do-it-yourselfer" way before there was such a thing as Home Depot or Lowes. Back then, we'd trek back and forth to the local hardware stores where grouchy old men held sway. Half the time they wouldn't have what was needed and we'd have to go to several different places.

Another thing I remember is the cheap dark paneling my father threw up in the hallway and den. Now that went up fairly easily but it made the den and hallway so dark that we had to keep the lights on even in the daytime.

[cyclotic]

My parents had a weird thing going. They divorced in the late 80’s. Couldn’t be married but they could hang wallpaper together like professionals.

[catnipman]

“Another thing I remember is the cheap dark paneling my father threw up in the hallway and den. Now that went up fairly easily but it made the den and hallway so dark that we had to keep the lights on even in the daytime.”

i nailed up pallet loads of that crap when i was a young carpenter ... horrible stuff ... but at the time, folks thought it was “elegant” ....

however, it does look quite nice if painted after the fact, esp. with a light color ...