Do You Keep Plants In The House?

I was watching P. Allen Smith on television in the wee hours.  He being a gardener and designer did a segment on having plants in the house. He said that they add healthy oxygen to the air, and also act as an air purifier, and therefore are a healthy thing to add to the inside of your home. He said you need a medium-large plant per 100 square feet, so in a 2000 square foot house you would need twenty plants.

Mmmmm.

I am not a house plant person. Dirt in pots, plants that get little buggy diseases, watering them, and worrying about enough light, are all things that put me off. I am attracted to those large fig trees because of the shape, and size, but still I never would have one in my house. I associate large potted plants with hotel lobbies, and I suppose if you want to extend the hotel look now a populist design trend in bedrooms to the rest of the house, you could add a potted palm or ten.

Anyway, what say you?  Do you keep plants in the house? Is the air more healthy for it?

Get figgy with it - Two large fig trees in a room from a weird new show on HGTV called Showhouse Showdown (which I would call Showhouse Smackdown) where two designers you never heard of decorate two new built identical spaces - Then hoards of unstylish regular folk are let in to "judge" the winning space - This designer won on the first episode

Fig tree as shown in the current issue of Traditional Home magazine

A little ivy plant in an urn - probs too small to add much of a health benefit - from Traditional Home

Two clipped ficus trees from Desire to Inspire - Just add 18 more for the average size house - but I'd rather have the trees than the sad flower arrangement on the table - just saying