'97-2001 I was renting a house, master bath had a window high on the wall where the tub was, SE-facing, and a huge shelf inside in front of that window.

Orchids absolutely loved living on that shelf.

Jan 2002 we (wife 1.0 and I) moved and none of them lasted a year at the new place. Sad, because I paid upwards of $75/plant for some of them. This was a few years before WalMart started selling them at $8/ea.