Dining Room. May 7, 2005. The photo is crap, but it is all I have for now. The wood paneling has been stripped, the maroon, masonite tiles pulled up, and most of the woodstove chimney has be torn out. The original walls are three-quarter-inch tongue-and-groove wall boards. They were originally wallpapered but never painted. We are going to tear out the quarter-inch drywall they ringed the upper four feet of the room with. Then we are going to pull all of the nails and tacks out of the wall boards. After that, we'll pressure wash the room. Once it is dry we'll probably rub the walls down with oil (linseed or Dutch) and call it done.