Here is the living room after the wallpaper was stripped-- the fireplace and all of the original woodwork and built-in bookshelves were in great shape when we bought the house, so we focused our restoration work on the ceilings (new blueboard and skim coat plaster-- there were a lot of cracks and water damage), walls (stripping the wallpaper and painting), floors (refinishing the original oak) and lighting (we replaced the existing, non-historic lights with historic/ salvage lights from the same period).