Removed some of the wallpaper in an old kitchen. I believe 2 layers came off relatively easy. The other two (or possibly 3 or 4) aren't budging. I am not spending the money to try. Last time I had one of these issues they drywalled right over the velveteen wallpaper but it took the better part of a week with the sanding, coming back, etc. and the attendant plaster dust mess. This is a higher end home for me. I've thought about bead board but I don't think the style of painted bead board would go with the higher end cherry cabinets. Suggestion was (and I think this is just to get them done and out the door) to put a rough texture plaster coat but to me that looks like a patch job - have done it quite often in some of my lower end units and I think it looks lower end. This is for a 10 x 8 wall, a 4 x 8 wall, soffit and under a desk area. The rest of the kitchen is cabinets and back splash. Kitchen is rather large - 20 x 15.

Beadboard definitely imparts a more country or cottage feel, so for us, it works in every house at the beach - but it mightn't work in other styles of houses.

Can you paint over the wallpaper? If it's on there tight, I've seen it done quite successfully.

After wallpaper removal usually comes heavy drinking. Have you tried a paper tiger and steamer? Combine that with wallpaper remover and it SHOULD come off.

I have, in the past, painted over wallpaper. I've used oil based primer first to seal the edges then followed with paint. Previous to that I used the paper tiger and a spray bottle filled with inexpensive liquid fabric softener. The fabric softner loosened the paper and glue underneath pretty well and smelled nice while doing this.

Sometimes a wallpaper has a foil or waterproof membrane that stripping liquids won't penetrate. So I use a wallpaper scoring tool that makes thousands of little holes thru the surface. Then I can use my steamer to loosen the glue to remove the wallpaper. Later I give it a light sanding and then use an oil base primer before I'll paint.

But when nothing can remove an old layer of wall paper, I can:

A) Drywall over the surface with 1/4" drywall

B) Install thin wood paneling, then some fancy molding.

Drywalling over it means that you are gonna remove and replace all of your door, window and baseboard trim? And then add a custom wood spacer around your window and door frames to make up the extra 1/2" And put spacers on all of your switch boxes and outlet boxes to make up the extra 1/2"???

On the other hand, if the wall is plaster over lathe you may well find after you remove all of the wallpaper tha the plaster is all cracked and the wallpaper was holding it together (I have.)

Coregated sheet metal for a modern look

Or tile or possibly stacked stone veneer?

It really depends on the style of the house

My personal kitchen has wallpaper that was put up without using sizing - we keep putting off doing anything about it. But when the time comes, we will likely add 1/4" drywall. Hubby is a wiz at spackling with very thin coats and increasingly wide spackle knives. He rarely has to sand, but when he does, uses a water dust collector like smallpotatoes mentioned.

We used to put up wallpaper back in the day - but hubby was also persnickety about using sizing, and the paper comes off in lovely sheets once we wet it down.