Here is the dining room after the wallpaper was stripped-- it had a relatively new burgundy paper above the plate rail and an off-white paper below, but both were in bad shape and the room was pretty dark. We stripped all of the walls down to the horsehair plaster and repainted the wall above the plate rail to match the rest of the first floor walls, and re-papered the area below the plate rail with a much softer, lighter paper. As with the other rooms, all of the built-in cabinets were in great shape- and we love the plate door to the kitchen!