We transformed an ugly little room into an extraordinary little room by hand painting new Anaglypta wallpaper. Our 1905 Neo-French Renaissance Brooklyn brownstone has original Anaglypta in the hallways and staircase, but we couldn’t find the same patterns anywhere. When we bought the house, this little room’s mahogany woodwork had been painted pumpkin orange, one wall was crumbling and other wall had been covered in cork tile. It had one sconce. We stripped the pumpkin paint off the woodwork, demolished the old wall and installed dry wall, refinished the parquet oak floor, installed a chair rail, curtain hardware, antique lights, and reproduction switch plates. But the star of the show was the brand new embossed Anaglypta, which was originally invented by Thomas Palmer in the late 1880’s and made out of cotton pulp, that we hand painted with Benjamin Moore studio finishes metallics and pearlescent paint in copper, gold, jealousy and buttercream yellow and then glazed. Costs/Resources: 3 rolls of Anaglypta ($40 per 60 sq. ft.) from DYHomeDecor.com, Paint ($160) from Benjamin Moore, curtain hardware ($35.50) and switch plates ($52.00) from VanDykes.com, antique lights ($860) from OldHouseLights.com, and chair rail ($57) from HomeDepot. Tip: If you are going to hand paint embossed wallpaper, choose a small room or an accent wall or a boarder, otherwise you’ll spend the rest of your life painting wallpaper. Dave Cummings (718-864-2906, DaveE718@hotmail.com), who specializes in restoration of Brooklyn homes, did most of the extraordinary work.