Bedroom Decorating Ideas - Candleholders add Style

Hi gang, Rick here at Bedroom decorating Ideas with an article on how Candleholders add style and grace to your home. Among the most powerful mood enhancers in a room is the glow of candlelight. It beckons guests to its warmth, mesmerizes with its flickering and lends mystery. It casts a romantic spell on an interior.

Candleholders can be ordinary or as captivating as the dancing lights. From simple candlesticks to elaborate candelabras, table centerpieces and even wall-mounted containers, candleholders are decorative accessories that hold their own even when the votives, tapers or pillars they cradle are not lighted.

Candleholders long have been collectibles and span a rich history of design styles. Tall hand-carved, painted or gilded wood candlesticks from Italy and delicate enameled 18th-century French holders are sold at auctions and in antique shops for hundreds to thousands of dollars apiece.

Today they are available in a variety of shapes, sizes and styles — from luxurious to rustic, from exotic to whimsical. The variety is considerable, ranging from low-slung holders for tea lights to sculptural candleholders as tall as a couple of feet. Sconces create still other dynamics.

Depending on the style, candleholders can be grouped in odd numbers of similar glass, crystal, brass, bronze, pewter, iron, stainless steel, ceramic or wood candlesticks of varying heights. More than one type can be used in a room on tabletops, sideboards and mantels. Some candleholders are designed expressly for use in the fireplace.

Decorating with candleholders, as with other well-chosen accessories, can add personality and a note of grace, strength or elegance as an accent or focal point.

Among the most versatile designs is the hurricane, a tall glass cylinder that surrounds the candle within. From clean to traditional styles, some with curves, the simplicity transcends decor. Footed hurricanes are especially eye-catching. Metal bases can be coordinated with other metal accents in a room.

Glass and crystal candleholders add a jewel-like sparkle to a space as they interact with warm candlelight. Mosaic candleholders layer iridescent color as candlelight glows through tiny cut-glass pieces in a captivating way. Another kind of light play comes from holders with eyelet designs, such as pierced tin chandeliers. Light shines through the openings, creating intriguing patterns. Candleholders with mirrored bases, as well as those made of mercury glass, also lend reflective qualities.

Wood candleholders are perennial favorites. Dark woods have increased in popularity, as they have in furniture design, and their placement has a grounding impact similar to that of black. A contemporary option is a long, narrow container or tray with recessed spaces for a row of round tea lights. It makes a simple architectural statement as a centerpiece on a dining table or on a cocktail table. Wood pillar holders can be grouped for visual strength, a nexus on the cocktail table.

Candleholders also can be used as wall decorations. Hang individual holders in a group to create an arresting composition. Or use a single 3-foot-tall scrolled ironwork medallion that holds removable glass votive cups and serves as a piece of art.

No matter what style of candleholder you choose, integrating candlelight into your home fashions an enchanting ambience, an intimate glow, romance and the suggestion of simpler times, something that can be illuminating for all who embrace it.
Thanks to ELAINE MARKOUTSAS, Universal Press Syndicate for this.

Bedroom Decorating Ideas, By Rick Ostler

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