Fake Wood Paneling

When I bought my house, it had this fake wood paneling on every wall. It was a little darker than what you see here, sort of more of a chocolate brown. I'd call the paneling in the video more of a butterscotch. I mean, it was really everywhere, on every surface, including the ceiling. It was Masonite, I think, with a rough side, and a shiny side with a wood pattern printed onto it. We tore it all out. We considered keeping it, maybe leaving it as is, or painting it, but we decided that we should just rip it all out and put up gypsum board. It made the house feel smaller, having dark textured walls. White walls sort of fall away. So we tore it out, and it came off in big 1/4 inch 4x8 sheets. The bugs were kind of eating it, so this turned out to be a good move. Also--all of the kitchen cabinets were constructed of the stuff. This was the really strange bit. There was some plywood for structure, but mostly all of the drawers and doors and shelves were made of leftover Masonite. Even the drawer runners, the slats that the drawers slid on, were made of Masonite cut into strips and sandwiched together. We ended up ripping every last bit of the stuff out and reducing the interior of the house to bare studs. Since all that Masonite was so flat, we were able to dispose of it all pretty easily. Three or four runs to the dump in a pickup truck, that's all it took to get rid of a house full of the stuff.

My apologies if you've heard this story before. This story is 100% true.