While stripping wallpaper in the library of the towering 1898 Queen Anne he shares with his spouse, Laura, Mike Brosius found a scrap of frieze decoration under a strip of fancy picture-rail moulding. On the ceiling above it was a period ceiling paper with a complementary design, obscured by water damage and at least six subsequent layers of wallpaper.
While most restorers would have simply covered and repainted the damage,