When decorating the home, we often neglect one crucial area—the bathroom. It's a room that serves as a sanctuary of sorts, a place of cleansing, beautifying and even reflecting. Such an intimate zone shouldn't feel cold and stark, but rather warm and comforting. One simple way to transform your bathroom into a relaxing and revitalising space is to add plants.
With a little imagination and careful planning, you can easily turn your ordinary bathroom into a spa-like oasis. If you’re not a green thumb and the thought of live plants and the care they entail is deterring you from taking this design step, we’ve got good news.
Read on to discover a wealth of ideas for using artificial plants in your bathroom using our quality faux plants that are almost imperceptible from the real thing. With little to no care required and a huge range to choose from, your much-needed bathroom refresh and reboot are just a few clicks away.
Choosing The Right Plants For Your Bathroom
Using plants in bathrooms is not a new idea in terms of design and adding appeal, however, getting the right balance of greenery is essential to its effectiveness.
Before you select any plants for your bathroom, we recommend considering the following:
Style & Aesthetic
Match your plants to your décor and consider the overall design scheme of your bathroom when choosing a plant. For a minimalist or modern bathroom, a sleek, structured plant such as a sansevieria or agave can work well. Conversely, a more lushly foliaged plant like a bird of paradise or monstera may suit a more relaxed tropical or bohemian vibe.
Colour should also play into this as the plants you choose should complement the colour scheme of your bathroom. For example, deep green foliage is often best suited to light-coloured bathrooms whereas variegated or lighter foliage can help to brighten a darker bathroom.
Size & Scale
First, look at your bathroom critically to ascertain how much space you have for adding in a plant or plants. You may even like to measure specific spots as this can help you choose a plant that will best fit and not crowd the space.
Additionally, we recommend considering plant proportions. A large plant can easily overwhelm a small bathroom while a tiny plant might look lost in a more spacious one. Taking the time to select a plant or plants that are proportional to your bathroom is key to achieving the right look.
Plant Type
Plants that look as realistic as possible are always preferable, remember - our quality faux plants are an investment and will last a lifetime with minimal care. From ferns to succulents, orchids and even floral arrangements in vases, ultimately, the best plant is one that looks as lifelike as possible.
We also recommend paying close attention to leaf shape and texture when selecting your plants. By choosing a leaf shape and texture that you find appealing and that adds visual interest to your bathroom you'll achieve an elevated look and one that you will enjoy looking at every day.
Five Bathroom Plant Ideas To Elevate Your Space
Now that we’ve covered the basics, it's time to talk about placement. The following are some simple yet effective bathroom decor ideas using plants.
Hang It
Whether you’re short on space or prefer a more relaxed look, hanging your greenery high can quickly transform your bathroom into a lush, tranquil hideaway.
Attach some hooks to your ceiling, beside your mirror, or even above the shower and then hang up one of our pre-made hanging baskets or a hanging terrarium. Trailing plants like baby tears, star blossom, pothos or similar are ideal for this and by drawing the eye upward, can also contribute to a feeling of a bigger space.
Unable or not keen to place hooks on the ceiling? An alternative hanging plant idea for your bathroom is to use a towel hook or rack to display a calming touch of wispy green like our hanging willow plant.
Drape It
The varied features and fixtures of a bathroom offer an array of surfaces perfect for long, flowing greenery. Try draping a string of pearls plant at the edges of your shower curtain using the rod as an anchor point or along the edges of a bathtub.
Placing the slender vines of an alocasia plant around the edges of your mirror or vanity or letting the delicate strands of a string of pearls plant drape from a pot atop your porcelain throne are also effective ideas.
Shelve It
Help conceal those ugly bathroom necessities like toilet paper, toothbrushes, and cleaning supplies by arranging them alongside (or behind) a few densely leafed plants on any shelf or stand. A Thai constellation monstera or polka-dot begonia plant are both eye-catching options and well suited to being displayed on a shelf.
Go even wilder by incorporating shelving into the shower, where you can add bold touches of green alongside your soap and shampoo or hang a bunch of faux eucalyptus from the underside or over your shower head for added effect. Remember artificial greenery can handle limitless water so it's perfectly fine to place in your shower.
Multiply It
Another winning bathroom plant idea is to fill up your bathroom with an abundance of tiny plants (we've got some great mini-potted plants all ready for you).
Try lining them up along the back of a vanity or window ledge, around a bathtub, or atop a stool or shelf. These small pops of green will help brighten up the space, which is a useful trick many designers employ when decorating small and/or windowless bathrooms.
Spotlight It
If you've got a little more space to work with, try this bathroom decor plant idea – pick one spectacular plant to make as your bathroom's centrepiece. We recommend a large, leafy calathea plant or maybe a tall, commanding bamboo tree or classic fiddle leaf fig tree to stand near your sink or tub. These lush and leafy stand-outs will bring an immediate sense of calm and character to your bathroom.
Revitalise your bathroom and create a space that is not only practical but enjoyable to be in. Shop our range of spectacular artificial plants for your bathroom today to get started.
