It sounds trite, but house plants really do add life to a home. With a little attention, a house plant will live for years and years, and when it comes time to show your home for sale, a healthy house plant will help indicate where the good sunlight is, and will even help clean the air.
Most house plants can be bought inexpensively, and there is a wide variety of affordable decorative plant pots available, so finding a plant pot suitable for the plants and to suit the colors and patterns in the room where the plant will live is a fairly easy task.