Once you start growing house plants, you’ll want to have some in every room of your home and workplace! But which plants perform best in which rooms? Keep reading for room-by-room suggestions, as well as plants listed by the different lighting conditions present throughout buildings.
The Best Indoor Plants for Bedrooms
While they may not be as efficient as an electric air purifier, plants do improve air quality, and they’re completely quiet! If you dream of a bedroom full of plants, start with some that are known for their air purifying qualities, such as a peace lily or aloe plant.
For more ideas, take a look at this list of 22 excellent bedroom plants.
The Best Indoor Plants for Bathrooms
Bathrooms are typically very humid spaces, which many plants love, but they also often pose the problem of having small or no windows. A cast-iron plant or snake plant will do well in a dim half bath, while a bright, humid full bath is the perfect place for pothos and bromeliads.
Check out more great bathroom plants here!
The Best Indoor Plants for Office Spaces
House plants can bring some much-needed life and beauty to the work spaces where we spend most of our days. Plus, their verdant foliage reduces stress and improves the air quality. ZZ plants are a wonderfully hardy option for office environments, and pothos are fun to have trailing along shelves or the tops of cubicle walls.
Find more ideas for great office plants.
The Best Indoor Plants for Entryways
Welcome guests to your plant-filled home with a beautiful house plant (or three) right in the entryway. Tall house plants, like a fiddle-leaf fig, work best, though smaller specimens can be placed on a table or shelf to give them more height.
See 14 more entryway plant ideas here.
The Best Indoor Plants for Bright Light
While some plants are better suited for specific rooms than others, oftentimes the determining factor for where to place a house plant is light. Some plants need bright light, such as from a south-facing window, while others may suffer leaf burn under such conditions. Succulents are often a good choice for bright windows, though many leafy plants like lots of light as well, such as the areca palm.
Check out this list of light-loving house plants.
The Best Indoor Plants for Low Light
In most cases, the majority of a home is made up spaces with little natural light, such as interior walls and corners, bathrooms, and rooms with just one window. This can make decorating with house plants frustrating, but not when you have plants that actually prefer low light conditions! Corn plant and heart-leaf philodendron are two popular examples, but there are many others!
Take a look at this list of a whopping 34 house plants that thrive in low light.
The Best Indoor Plants for Filtered Light
Next we have the goldilocks plants that prefer filtered light, which might also be described as bright, indirect light — somewhere between bright and low light. Many of these are not actually as picky as they sound and will tolerate a little more or less light. Dragon tree and prayer plant both like filtered light.
Here are 20 more plants for filtered light.
