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Wood instead of drywall?

Posted by Kate Hulevitch, on
Our house was built in the early 1950's. We wanted to take the old wallpaper off the walls in our bedrooms and paint the walls instead. After peeling back multiple layers of wallpaper we found that there's wood boards underneath all the wallpaper instead drywall. How do I proceed?

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