Refinishing Wood Floors - Before or After Painting?

[Beth D.]

When do you refinish hardwoods?

In our first project, we refinished them after painting everything. Our thought was, since we were pulling up the carpet, it would be easier to not worry about ruining the new finished floors... but the sanding mess (even with a bag) was THE WORST. I spent f o r e v e r deep cleaning and even ended up repainting some of the white that just looked dirty.

Would it be weird to refinish first the tape roll out paper to preserve them from paint?