Candle sconces

Decorate your home like a professional using candle sconces

Professional decorators often use candle sconces to create a cozy ambience in the home. You too can use candle sconces, which are wildly available in gift, furnishing, hardware and lighting shops to give your home a soft glow.

Candle sconces come in all shapes and sizes and can be free standing, a wall-mount or hung from the ceiling like a chandelier.

Basically, the sconce is a vessel designed to hold a tea light, votive candle or pillar candle. It is highly recommended that you buy dripless candles made of paraffin or beeswax so that you don’t damage the sconce. If the sconce is screwed or mounted to the wall, it also saves you the hassle of peeling spilled wax from your walls or carpet.

These decorative lamps come in every style imaginable. A current trend in sconces are wall candle holders which features the candle light in the mirror.

Traditional wall-mounted candle sconces are fixed with a decorative plate to the wall and are usually made of wrought iron and glass. These types of wall sconces can also be made of brass, Tiffany glass or plastic. Many wall-candle wall sconces also resemble chandeliers.

Free standing sconces are often small vessels that can be set on a table. These kinds of candle sconces are often decorated with crystals or gems. Some candle sconces them sport decorative chains or strings so the candle can be hung, like a holder for plants, from the ceiling.

Some sconces resemble lamps and feature candle holders instead of sockets for electric bulbs.

There is a wide availability of styles of candle sconces on the market to suit any decorating scheme including antique-look candle sconces, distressed look sconces, gothic sconces, art-deco candle sconces and Victorian candle sconces. As they are quite inexpensive, candle sconces are an inexpensive and pretty way to add a decorative touch to your home.