Floors, they matter.

When we lived in Utah, our basement had three bedrooms, the laundry room and a bathroom and a huge center space where we kept the computer.  The former owners of our house had placed the ugliest black and white twelve inch linoleum tiles on the whole floor, in each room.  It was hideous.  We wanted to put in carpet but there was a big drain in the center of the room so carpet would never do.  We started looking at various basement tile and other flooring options before we ultimately decided on a different linoleum.  Tile would have been freezing cold in the winter and we decided since the rooms downstairs were mainly for sleeping, we wanted something easy to keep clean but also allowing for versatility if we decided to use the basement for anything other than bedrooms and a den.