About 40 years ago, the previous owners of this house decided to install cork board on the upper half of door-side wall in each of the smaller bedrooms. I can just see this idea popping up on a 1970's pinterest... "great for the kids room!"
We scraped it off back in March during Spring Break (when we actually had large chunks of time to work on the house). It took about 8 hours. Unfortunately, the walls are a complete mess--we can't get the adhesive off, and in a few places, chunks of the drywall paper came off with the cork board.
We're fortunate to have several house-savy friends who have stopped by to lend a hand and give advice. The consensus is that we COULD sand the adhesive and mud over the the drywall breaches, but we'd have to texture the wall, which would look weird in an untextured house. SO, we'll be tearing out the drywall and all of that effort to scrape off the disgusting cork was for naught. Except that we are wiser now!!
Cork board WOULD be a good idea in a kid's room! :)
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