All Pots are not created equal

Taking a little literary latitude,you need the correct pot for the specific indoor plants you are choosing for your home. The plants purchased in a container may make you feel as if the choice has been made. You need to analyze whether the pot will provide your houseplant with the growth space or soil it will require. Quite often purchased indoor plants are stuffed into a pot which either has little room for growth, poor soil or both.

A large pot will provide for rapid root growth. However,sometimes this is not favorable to the plant and it will be detrimental to its growth and can result in falling leaves or the plant may die. Each houseplant is different in this respect and it will be your job to determine what is best for your plants. This can also lead to excessive water rentention so you have to watch the pot size.
In contrast a smaller pot has less soil for your indoor plants to absorb nutrients. The smaller pot restricts the plant from rapid growth and the plant grows much slower. The two conditions frankly offset each other which leads to about the same amount of time for repotting of a specific species. It is important that you don't allow the plant to become root bound. Repotting will be necessary at one point but the diameter of the pot should only be increased by about 1-2 inches to allow for good healthy growth. I had a specific opportunity to observe this in my home when I moved a Croton plant too rapidly from one size pot to another. The plant's growth was stunted for several months and leaves began to drop. It fortunately revived from this situation but this may not happen in every case.