Yeah you're right, there is wallpaper under the black which I will be removing and painting at a later date, in fact I'm pretty sure I was asking advice from the wallpaper folks about it in another thread. The homeowner was just weary of his house being in disarray (over a month, this is the same house with the pool table) so he told me just to do what I could; but I'll be going back to the nightmare baseboards and when I do they're coming off and gonna be dome properly, behind a dresser or not! They left some gaps that were easily a 1/4" from the tile. *sigh*
Heck the HO even paid me for the room and all I did was paint the baseboards, he was pleased with the other rooms I did so it was sort of a "tip". I do other work for this man all the time and he's a gooood customer, nice to have a few like that!