1) Trailing Plants
These plants are all low-maintenance and grow long vines. You can buy one with shorter vines, and it will grow quickly in the spring and summer.
You can display it as a hanging plant, or you can attach the vines to a stake, trellis, or moss pole to imitate their natural growing pattern on trees in the wild (this allows them to grow larger leaves). However, the hanging ones do just fine!
Care: Water every 1-2 weeks in spring/summer/fall. Water 1 or 2 times a month in winter. Can manage with lower light but will thrive next to a window.
Plant Glossary
fenestrations refers to holes in leaves
variegation refers to streaks and splashes of color on leaves. variegation is also evident on stems.
Pothos (you already knew)
Variations: golden (pictured), green + white ('marble queen' or 'snow queen'), standard green. Mature plants develop fenestrations. Pothos will droop dramatically whenever it needs water.
Philodendron cordatum (aka heart-leaf)
Variations: 'brasil' (pictured) and standard green
Monstera adansonii (aka swiss cheese plant)
plain green in inexpensive, but variegated ones can be pricy
Epipremnum pinnatum 'cebu blue'
sometimes called cebu blue pothos but is actually not a pothos! foliage is a silvery blue-green. mature plants develop fenestrations.
2) Low-light plants
These plants can do well without much light or water. This means that you can place it on the far side of a room with a window but sadly not in any windowless bedrooms. Because these grow very slowly, you should buy at the full size you want.
Care: Water every 2-4 weeks in spring/summer/fall. Water 1x a month in winter.
ZZ plant (Zamioculcas zamiifolia)
also comes in black
Snake plant
there are many variations in coloring and size of the leaves