There’s nothing quite like an assortment of houseplants to bring greenery to our indoor lives, livening up sterile rooms and drab corners. Better still, their variations in shape, size, and care requirements mean there’s truly a perfect houseplant for every room in your home. This guide will take you on a tour of a typical home, walking you through each room and pointing out the indoor plants best suited to each environment.
The Home Office
Home office environments can vary quite a bit depending on our individual needs and preferences. Some may have large windows and plenty of natural light, while others may instead be located in dimmer areas of the home, like the basement. Because of this variation, the best plants for a home office are incredibly adaptable and will thrive in a variety of light settings. Here are some of our personal favorites:
For Your Desk: The Snake Plant
Snake plants are easy going indoor houseplants that can survive in low light; however, they’re also perfectly happy in bright light and direct sunlight. This versatility makes them the perfect addition to any office environment! We especially love including smaller tabletop spider plants on our desks to liven up our workspaces.
For the Corner of the Room: The Peace Lily
Like the snake plant, peace lilies can also survive in a wide range of light conditions, and a large, floor-potted peace lily in the corner of the room will immediately brighten up any drab home office. Besides bringing a lushness to your office, the peace lily’s large, dark-green leaves also purify the air by filtering out toxins such as carbon monoxide and formaldehyde.
The Living Room
The living room is likely where you spend most of your time, basking in the morning rays or relaxing in the evening dusk. Because they’re the busiest part of any home, living rooms tend to have more bright, natural light, making them the perfect spot to keep some of our favorite indoor houseplants:
For Your Coffee Table: The Chinese Money Plant
A whimsical indoor houseplant with a lot of style, the Chinese Money Plant will live happily on your coffee table as it prefers bright, indirect light. You’ll love watching it from your couch as it grows new leaves and produces plantlets for you to propagate.
For Your Living Room Window: The Fiddle Leaf Fig
Every living room needs a dramatic statement plant, and the fiddle leaf fig fits that bill. This stunning, light-worshiping indoor houseplant does its best positioned right next to a large, bright, east-facing window, where it can take in the morning light. Fiddle leaf figs enjoy direct sunlight as well, though, so don’t worry too much if your living room windows are facing west or south.
The Bedroom
Bedrooms are usually the spaces in your home with the lowest amounts of light, and they’re also typically less frequented than other rooms unless they double as a home office. As such, low-maintenance indoor plants that can survive in lower light conditions are the ideal fit for any bedroom. Here are our top picks:
For Your Bedside Table: The ZZ Plant
A tabletop ZZ plant makes for a great bedside companion. Known as one of the most low-maintenance indoor plants around, the ZZ plant does not need frequent watering or care. Plus, its waxy, oval-shaped leaves and bulbous wand-like stems make it a stylish choice for any bedroom decor.
For Your Bedroom Corner: The Snake Plant (again!)
Although we already talked about them in the home office section, the snake plant is so versatile that it deserves an encore! A larger snake plant in a floor pot makes the perfect addition to any dark bedroom corner, as it can survive quite handily in dimmer environments. Unlike other indoor houseplants, the snake plant converts carbon monoxide into oxygen while you sleep at night, making it the perfect all-natural indoor air purifier!
The Bathroom
Since many indoor houseplants hail from the tropics, they prefer minimum humidity levels of at least 50%, making the bathroom a perfect spot for them. Combine this naturally high humidity with a bathroom window, and you’ve hit the plant parenting jackpot! Here are some of our top indoor plant recommendations for prettying your powder room:
For Your Bathroom Ledge: The Triostar Stromanthe
If you’re lucky enough to have a large window ledge in your bathroom, then the colorful triostar stromanthe is a good fit. It likes to live in 60-80% humidity and thrives in bright, indirect light, preferably gentle morning rays and afternoon shade, making a bathroom window its perfect hang-out spot.
For Your Bathroom Counter: The Prayer Plant
Like the triostar, the prayer plant is another humidity-loving indoor houseplant with beautiful markings. It prefers humidity levels over 60% and does best in medium- to low-light conditions, meaning it will do very well as a tabletop plant beside your bathroom sink.
As you can see, there truly is an indoor houseplant for every room in your home. If you’re ready to redecorate with some new greenery and are wondering where to buy the best indoor plants in Bismarck, look no further! We have over 3,000 houseplants in our greenhouse, ready for you to discover. Come by Plant Perfect and pick out the perfect houseplant for every room in your home today!