Planter boxes for indoor gardening

[Niwashi]

The indoor planters are meant more to work like the moghouse planters in FFXI, where they give you flowers to make your house look pretty and ore and crystals

Yes, but while introducing a new feature is nice, it doesn't replace the absence of a quite different feature. As it stands, the pots are a nice addition, but they don't solve the problem of not having access to gardening in an apartment or chamber. Even people who get some housing features by getting an apartment, will still need a house if they want access to other significant housing features.

With the apartments being instanced and the housing wards constant, the apartments are going to be a lot easier on SE's servers, so presumably easier for them to expand. But that only benefits them if players accept that having an apartment constitutes having housing. If it doesn't, then demand for the actual house plots will remain unchanged. So it's important to ensure that all the features you get by having a house, you can also get (just in a smaller size) by having an apartment.