My first house had previously been rented to what I can only describe as some of the most inventive DIYers ever. the ceiling of my living room had those polestyrene tiles which had been painted black and red - they then decided to get creative and dipped a shoe in white paint and "walk" all over the tiles!!!! - each room had a different color radiator lime green, yellow etc, when stripping the wall paper in what appeared to be a rounded off alcove i discoverd that the rounding off had been done with newspapers, papier mache style. The bathroom was timber panelled and sound proofed with newpapers. in fact there were newpapers everywhere, behind wallpaper, under carpets and behind presses.