Do it yourself linoleum floor
We decided to go with these
peel off and stick linoleum pieces for the floor of the home
made storage building.
They turned out to be a cheaper option compared to getting a roll of
the stuff and I'm thinking a bit easier for amateurs like us. It was a
smooth operation and we had most of it done before we knew what hit us.
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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Drat --- you have to ask the hard questions.
Honestly, as I read your comment, I'm not sure whether those tiles were vinyl, linoleum, or laminate --- I thought it was all the same thing. Maybe Mark will chime in here.
But I do agree with you that everyone should be barefoot in the house!
It's most probably vinyl a.k.a. PVC. In real linoleum, the color runs through the whole thickness. So to make patterns you have to cut out pieces and fit them together like a jigsaw puzzle. Linoleum is usually calendered onto a woven backing. Vinyl has a printed surface, with a usuallly white foamy substance underneath. The vinyl in my kitchen looks like huge stone tiles, and several people have mistaken it for real tiles.
The good thing about real linoleum is that it's made from renewable materials. But it's probably much more expensive than vinyl.