A woman has been left in stitches after discovering a handy note under the wallpaper in her new house - she will keep the previous homeowner's words in mind when she comes to redecorate ...

Eileen, aged 32 with her parents and baby daughter outside their old home Credit: MEN Media. There - underneath layers of wallpaper and paint - was a message left by the house's previous owners.

The previous owner had left the note almost 25 years ago when he too was wallpapering the room. The woman was stripping off the old wallpaper when she came across the note - written in 1997.

If you're in the process of a remodel, don't tear down that '90s wallpaper border quite yet. Like many design trends from decades past, wall treatments from this nostalgic period are having a moment.

5. Some 19th century wallpapers contained a deadly substance. This discovery was made by Dr. Thomas Orton, a leading London physician, following the death of the three-year-old Ann Amelia Turner.