Pine Floorboards as flooring - Good/Bad idea?

[wau5]

I'm looking to install new flooring upstairs, not a fan of laminate and my budget doesn't quite stretches to oak parquet.
My local timber yard has some very nice redwood 20mm floorboards for sale at £8/m2 , I had bought a bit of them in past to use them for other purpose and I really liked how they came up after giving a good coat of oil.
They look nice and have tongue&groove all around, however I'm slightly worried about the durability I can expect from them since they are pine boards.

What do you say about this idea? Am I potentially asking for a trouble since I have dogs/ a lot of people in house who likes to drag chairs and come inside the house with dirty shoes which all could just stratch it all up due to it being a soft fresh pine?
Anyone got experience doing what I want to do?

 

[big-all]

structural flooring wont tend to have t&g all round it must start an finish on a joist to be structural will tend to be around 8ft -15ft with the odd length joined within a room but most will be full length perhaps 1 in 5max being 2 boards but never in general any more than one join on the length
but i always go for 100% full length as neater unless the extra 5% extra costs to cover waste is a big problem

 

[r896neo]

Oiling them will result in a very soft easy marked floor but retouching it will be super straight forward. I have 70s pine floorboards which I sanded and waxed. I like the distressed look so want them to weather in. I simply add a coat of wax and they get better. They scratch and dent easily but as long as the colour doesn't show through I like it. 70s pine I probably a little harder than modern too so consider that.

2-3 coats of quality diamond varnish will keep them decent but they will dent easily which may crack the varnish layer allowing it to chip.

I also laid them in a spare bedroom for a friend and they stayed very good with a well varnish surface. Low traffic though obviously.

Overall if you like a distressed look go for it. If not I would avoid.