Cloth or leather sofa better with cats?

[Sadik]

For the first time ever, I'm in the position to buy a new new sofa. I'd love a leather one, but now I'm wondering if that's going to get more trashed by cat claws than a cloth one. I'm not super-precious about things, so the odd fluffy bit on a sofa corner isn't going to worry me, but massive holes would be a bit of a shame. What do you multi-cat-people all have?

We moved and had wooden floors in the new house, it took one two weeks to find the courage to walk on it normally, if had them upstairs whilst moving things about and getting used to the place, he sat howling on the step for a week and had to lift him into the kitchen and then back on the step after his breakfast... he is fine with tiles.

I do keep their claws trimmed but have no scratches at all from the fur balls.

I already had a sofa n chairs in fabric (pale green/slightly darker green "stripes") when I got my two cats. They ruined them in due course by (a) their fur started to somehow in-grain itself into the material so that you couldnt brush it off nor use sellotape to remove it. Then if they sicked up a furball it stained said material. Loved them to bits so barely complained. But when a new sofa etc was required, I got dk brown leather. Fab decision as no marks show, you can wipe off the fur easily with damp kitchen roll and touch up any scratches with dk brown shoe polish!!!!

I have leather sofas. The only cat marks are from where they scrabbled to climb it when they were teeny and other such incidental jumping type marks. Really very minor, they're not interested in it at all. The wallpaper on the other hand...

My angel of a cat doesn't scratch my cloth sofas but does claw them when jumping, the leather footstool looks worse where she has done this because most of the time the claws don't damage the cloth but they do the leather.

Mad chasing hours is exactly what happens here Chestnuts. I hope they're not too traumatised by wooden floors :(