All successful landlords have skin certified to be at least an inch thick!

Engineered hardwood is generally 5/16"-3/8" thick and only about 1.19 a sqft at your local Lumber Liquidators.

Its hardcover and thick with lots of details. 

The big issue is depending on the adhesive of some wall paper applications you may end up ripping the paper layer off the drywall and then you've got a boat load of patch work to doLower costs but just as messy as a demo and takes almost the same amount of time.3rd option is to cover the walls.You can get wall panels from 3/16 thick and just put them up over top and hide all that's underneath. 

The thick nice paper comes off easier than the thin inexpensive stuff, especially if no wallpaper primer was used because it breaks into pieces.

Basically it’s really thick *ss silicon/polymer that applies like very thick paint.

There are plenty of videos online for either one of these, I prefer trowel as its not hard and you can create many different styles, lightly sand if it’s to busy or thick and paint 2 coats of latex and your done.

They even have laws on how thick the plastic drop-cloths and trash bags have to be.

I love being in the thick of things every single day.  

The new shower was put in shortly after with a 3" thick concrete shower pan, walls lined with hardi and travertine tile installed.