I know it's possible to pull up hardwood flooring, but I don't think it's easy and it might damage some of the boards or finish on them, so you would have to most likely reinstall and refinish. With your situation of having future construction plans with the home, I'm kind of thinking the plywood option isn't a bad idea, as it could be the underlament when you're ready to lay the hardwood flooring so you wouldn't have to remove it. I would think it would hold up fairly well for a few years with kids, pets, and construction, if you put decent poly on it. Franksmom, the paint sprayer we bought is called a Graco TrueCoat II Plus (250.00 at Lowes). It's not at all like the cheaper Wagner paint sprayers you see, it's made by one of the best companies that make professional paint sprayers. It's a handheld (no stand) airless paint sprayer so it has a paint container attached to the gun. Because it's an airless type and not an HVLP type of sprayer, you don't have to thin latex paints, you can use them right out of the paint can, so you have much thicker coats/coverage in one pass when sprayed on. It's easier to clean (IMHO) and you can work with smaller amounts of paint because it has the paint cup attached to the gun instead of of stand type where you have tubes that feed from large gallon or 5 gallon paint cans. There are different versions of the Graco Truecoat, we went with Truecoat II Plus because it has a flexible pump tube so you can tip the gun upwards or turn it sideways and the paint will still siphon to the sprayer (good for painting ceilings), and it offered an adjustable air pressure knob, so you can adjust the spray pressure for more control (a little less overspray) and for the thickness of the paint you're using. Also it is repairable, and you can buy parts for it, some of the older Truecoat models are not repairable. They do sell different tips you can buy for the sprayer to give you different spray size and for different thicknesses of materials (latex paint vs thin stain), they also make a larger container cup, a back pack attachment kit that can hold up to a gallon of paint so you don't have to use the container cup attachment and refill as often. You can also purchase more plastic bag cup liners so cleanup is easier. The cons to this sprayer are, it's heavy because the paint container is attached to the gun, you have to refill more often because it uses a smaller amount of paint at a time, and you get more overspray and go through paint much faster than you do with an HVLP sprayer because it's airless. The overspray will be decent so make sure you mask/cover things well when using. Clean up takes about 20-30 min and you have to make sure you take the time to do it properly, and masking/covering to protect from overspray can take some time, however the upside is you can paint 10 doors in about 10 min with it.

I see you found the answer . Thank you for liking my closet. No one that sees it guesses it's MDF either. I chose it because of now smooth it is compared to plywood. We were new to woodworking so we'd not discovered carpenters grade plywood like we used to build the bookcases in our library a couple years ago. Linelle I've heard that too about the grit of the sand paper. We usually use the finer grit only between coats of poly. I think I'll edit that above. I was trying to write it while working "in my head" and one always doesn't remember those little details. Thanks!

Checking, I will get back to you, Whatever flooring you get it may be worthwhile to purchase a box to lay it out and see the color little bit more difficult with a small samples I originally had a different color pIcked and when it delivered they stated that the colors have been darker so they brought a few boxes in and we declined chose another color that we had Purchased a box and when came they were quite a bit more red tone then got these and love love love them These are also a pretty thick engineered floor which would enable you to have more refinishing if you needed

With so many different flooring types in a small space, I'm thinking I'm either going to have to do something that matches the wood of the parlor or more of the vinyl tiles, which I'm not crazy about but they will probably last a long time. I may eventually take look at cork for the bedrooms. I would do linoleum in a heartbeat if I didn't already have a lot of patched together flooring in the "open concept" parts of the house. Dad just put in the vinyl before he moved out two years ago, so I'm stuck with that. It's in the kitchen, entry way and informal eating area on the other side of the kitchen. Dad only redid the floors due to the laundry room flooding and ruining what was there, which was the wood. He wasn't open to "out of the box" linoleum which is what I would have wanted. At the time I did not know I was moving into the house. Not sure the vinyl tiles will go any better with grasscloth than a wood floor. Actually they are not vinyl per se, I don't know what to call them, they are some kind of plastic resin. Faux marble. High end for that type of flooring. I guess we can afford engineered wood . . . they sell that in most home supply places.