Lino - persuade me its a good idea

[CheeryCherry]

Need a new floor in the kitchen, and it looks like it has to be lino - even though I don't really like it. Tiles have cracked as the floor is flexible, would like rubber flooring but the rolls are only 1.2m wide and a seam would look obvious. Can't afford bamboo or wood, laminate will be too hard to fit as we have floor hatches to cover too. So it will have to be lino.
Sell it to me! There must be advantages! Thanks!

Do you mean proper linoleum or vinyl?

Proper lino is gorgeous stuff - warm to the feel, not remotely naff like laminate.

Vinyl is fine - I have it in a couple of rooms. I wish they'd bring back patterns though.

I'm really anti anything that's pretending to be something it isn't. So vinyl that's trying to look like slate - eeew.

Proper linoleum though, is yummy.

[[http://www.floorideas.co.uk/VinylVSLinoleum.html here's a comparison]

Both of them are good because they feel warm not cold and are nice and soft - so drop a glass and it doesn't break as easily and dead easy to clean.

Gosh how ignorant am I?? Didnt know there was any difference between lino and vinyl! So is the difference huge? And will it last - with dog and cat claws, lots of footsteps etc...?

Lino is great - very hard wearing, and warm. But I don't know whether it might out of your budget?

If rubber's in your budget linoleum's not much more.

specialmagiclady that was a great link, thanks. Am learning fast!