If you are looking to add an air of aroma and ambiance to your home, you may only be a jar candle away from your goal.
Jar candles are a great addition to any home for a number of reasons:
- Jar candles are safer than many candles. Being self-contained, and in a large balanced jar, there is less chance that they will topple over and start a fire in your home.
- There is less of a chance of a dripping mess when using jar candles. Since they are inside a jar, melting wax stays inside the candle containers. If you have ever had a candle overflow, you know how frustrating this can be. Jar candles are an especially great relief when you have the candle sitting atop an heirloom tablecloth.
- While tapers and other smaller candles have to be changed out regularly, jar candles will be with you for a while. Some jar candles can have 100 hours of burn time, or more. This means great scents and that warm glow day after day after day.
- Jar candles are great for scent variety. Most jar candles come with a lid. That means you can close off one scent and open up another when you decide it’s time to change the mood in your home.
Now that you know why you want jar candles, you need to know what to do with them. Here are a few tips.
When it comes to decorating your home with jar candles, don’t think they have to be lonely. Many people think since jar candles are often bigger than regular candles they should only use one jar candle at a time, maybe with a little decorative accent around it. This is far too limiting of a role for your jar candles. If you have a large table, a grouping of three jar candles will be just fine. You also may want to look at mixing up the visual effect by choosing jar candles of a few different sizes and grouping them together in the middle of the table. You can then decorate around the candles and create a complete centerpiece look.
Another great thing about jar candles is that you can decorate them to suit your home. Instead of the label they come with on the front, you can put your own personal label on jar candles. Whether it is a greeting card you love, a family photo that you think is cute or any other design, you can carefully glue that image to the outside of the jar candle and make it not just a great scented candle, but also one in a candle holder that is all your own.
Even though it’s spring, that doesn’t mean you can’t have a great looking fire in the fireplace. While you may not want to put a bunch of logs in there and light them up, radiating heat, what’s to say you can’t create the look of a fire in your fireplace? Instead of logs, put a set of jar candles in the fireplace. Once you light them up, they will give off a beautiful glow and create that warm cozy feeling you love about your fireplace, without the heat. If you are missing winter, you can even choose scents like pine that will take you back to the chillier weather. If you really want to brighten things up, you should put a mirror behind the candles to double the glow.
Jar candles are a must. They really are the work horses of the candle world. Just a few of these beauties can go a long way towards completing the decorations in your home.