I, too, dream of that day. sigh.

how lovely... here in my part of NYC, if a bathroom has a window it's called a bedroom.

I put plants in the bathroom anyway. There are quite a few indoor plants that do OK in artificial light. And if they don't make it, just think of them as longer term cut flowers.

All plants need light...sadly, both my bathrooms do not have windows and the lights aren't positoned that would benefit a plant even in artificial light.

I *love* the staghorn ferns in the first picture, but sadly have no windows at all in mine. Great ideas for those with lighting though!

Rotate your plants; most can survive a week or so with only artificial light. Buy three (or more plants). Place two in healthy sunlit locations and the other in the bathroom. Choose a day (Sunday is usually good) and then swap one of the sunlit plants with the one in the bathroom. The one in the bathroom will probably enjoy the moist atmosphere but it won't be in there long enough to pine.

I used to have a few bamboo stalks in an old milk bottle, standing near a corner of the bath. It was lovely!
Now I have to find some small plants that will do okay on a very narrow, high, north-facing window ledge. I already have a philodendron or two that I cannot kill, but I'd love to have a new plant!

Couldn't you have plants in a windowless bathroom if you rotated them inside and outside? Hmmm.

*sigh* I love the place I'm in now, but my last apartment had a window in the bathroom. My boston fern never did survive the move - in order to give it light, I had to take it away from the humidity. I wish I could have plants in my bathroom, but I haven't the heart to leave them in the gloom even for short periods of time. :(

I dream of the day when i can do this!

I've had success with snake plants in my windowless bathroom.

I wanted some green in my bathroom, so I added some realistic-looking fake plants. Not quite as good as the real thing, but better than nothing!

That avocado plant is so simple and pretty! The vase looks designed precisely for that purpose.

@jkm38135 that vase is called a "bulb forcing" vase or "hyacinth vase". You can find them on ebay. Some are lightweight, so for an avocado you'll need one with some bottom weght to it.

That second picture is plant overload- in my opinion.

I love plants in every room! Instantly makes a home more cozy and alive. But I do have trouble finding inexpensive, interesting plants if anyone has any ideas...

My Moth Orchid (Phalaenopsis) calls for bright but indirect interior light. It's beautiful enough to be worthy of keeping a bathroom light on.

I had a Peace Lily in my windowless bathroom for several months and it loved it. There was some light bleed from the adjoining room though (which I think would be most cases), so a tiny bit of natural light but mostly artificial when available. If my roommate didn't complain that it was too large for the counter it would still be there, but unfortunately he was right.

Haha, too funny

What's that hanging plant in number 5? It looks like a lovely, draping chandelier. Very pretty.

Andy's Orchids is a great place to get orchids, since they let you search through tons of varieties to find ones that grow in your specific conditions. Their website is extremely ugly and hokey, but the orchids are legit. They also go to TONS of garden shows/orchid expos around the states, and those are pretty much always worth going to, anyway.

can you get a full spectrum bulb and put it on a timer for just a few hours? if so, you could probaby put just about any low light plant in the room. if not, what about a low basket with moss balls?

when we remodeled the bathroom, we took out the huge double hung window in the shower, and put in glass block, lined the cavity with tile, including shelf rail and now have 3 glass shelves for product & air plants. which i just got, but plan to rotate with other airplants that arent going to get enough humidity where they are.

@andshebakes, it's a string of pearls (or string of beads), a trailing succulent. Senecio rowleyanus.

@ebrown - why its it, that such an elegantly simple solution seems to be so elusive, until someone else points it out? Thank you, thank you, thank YOU!

We also have a dark, small, windowless bathroom, choked with 4 peoples' (2 of whom are teenage girls!) 'stuff'. I have been so desperate for some green in there, that I finally caved and stuck some silks in there. Well, 'buh bye', ya nasty dust collectors! I'll be starting plant rotations, soon! Woot!

Anyone know a source for the glass vase holding the avocado seed in the first picture?

guess it's a "bulb forcing vase" for flower bulbs

Anyone know how the air plants are hung up in the shower in picture 8?

Mary C - if the window sill is high, I assume it's kind of hard to water, so you need some plants that don't need a lot of water, and will be content in a north window. And some things that would hang down so you can enjoy the foliage. Why not try sanseveria (snake plant),hoya, spider plant, maybe a rhipalis or a burro's tail (sedum morganianum), or a bromeliad or orchid for color now and then. A small window sill allows you to get small plants which are inexpensive, so you can try different things.

Excellent suggestion, ebrown. Clever interior landscapers do that all the time.

Excellent suggestion, ebrown. Clever interior landscapers do that all the time.

Dodie, plants are super adaptable critters. You can put 1 in even a windowless space for a week; then put it back into the light, and put another into the dark, and rotate 3 or 4 plants in such a way. The Japanese have been doing this with bonsai for hundreds of years. Why don't you give it a try?

Rachael, there are lots of smaller plants you could use.