Glass candle holders and handmade candles from KROSNO are the perfect base for creating original decorations for any room or enhancing the unique character of a festive table. You can use them to make seasonal centerpieces or year-round DIY decorations. From botanical and nautical motifs, through festive references, to minimalism or glamour style – it's worth discovering and bringing to life at least one of these 8 unique inspirations!
Glass variety
To prepare handmade candle decorations, you will, of course, need various types of candles and glass candle holders. KROSNO offers a wide range of them: straight and flared, with and without stems, resembling glasses, jars, and goblets, tall and short, classic and modern. Most of them are handmade from high-quality clear, durable, and heat-resistant glass. Among them, you can also find a collection of colored candle holders, shimmering with contrasting hues. Regardless of their type, when arranged on a tray next to each other in a seemingly random composition, with a mix of candles in different styles, they can make an attractive decoration on their own!
You can also use "Splendour," "Romance," or "Glamour" scented candles for centerpieces. Not only are they visually appealing, but above all, they captivate with their unique fragrance, which also significantly influences the atmosphere of the interior. The rich color palette and variety of glass forms make them a valuable asset when preparing candle decorations.
In rainbow colors
DIY candle decorations can be quick to create yet impactful. This is precisely the trend of recent seasons, which combines simple forms of classic candles and candle holders in a diverse range of colors.
To create this eclectic decoration, you will need a neutral-colored tray – silver or light-toned, a set of colorful candle holders from the "Sakred by Karim Rashid" collection, and classic tapered white candles, preferably of varying lengths. Simply arrange them next to each other – the more, the better – creating an eye-catching and cheerful composition.
You can also reverse this principle, preparing a new decoration – this time, the traditional cone-shaped candles will have intense and diverse coloring, while the candle holders will remain neutral, colorless. Elements from the "Servo Line" collection, in various heights, will work perfectly here.
Sea tales
A fashionable theme that will give candle decorations a unique character is the nautical motif. To create ornaments with such a theme, you will need larger, plump candle holders made of clear Crystalline glass, seashells, pebbles, sand, small twigs, decorative starfish, and white pillar candles.
These types of candle decorations for the table can be made in several ways. The first is to fill the vessel with only seashells, stones, or create a layer of them on yellow sand, and then stably place a candle among them. You can also only pour sand and insert individual small starfish and shells into it.
Another method is to arrange seashells and pebbles at the bottom – preferably in large quantities – and fill them with water. Then, simply carefully place tealights or floating candles specially designed for such purposes on the surface.
Idyllic and romantic
Ordinary glass Hurricane candle holders, which protect the candle flame from being accidentally blown out by a gust of wind, are worth decorating yourself to completely change their character. For example, you can use a piece of jute, wrapping it around the vessel and tying it with ecological twine.
Thicker string also looks interesting when wrapped several times and glued with hot glue to the bottom part of the candle holder – either on its own or with a dried sprig of rosemary or lavender interwoven. You can pour sand inside – so that the top edge of the layer is visible – and place a pillar candle on it.
Twine and jute fabric are a trendy decoration for candle holders when arranging tables for weddings and elegant rustic-style events. You can add white lace, green twigs, and other natural elements to them, achieving a romantic effect. A great option in the same vein would also be to place KROSNO scented candles, e.g., brown, copper, or blue, on a slice of wood – either alone or surrounded by pine branches!
Floral inspirations
Flowers and decorative candles always make an elegant combination. Colorful buds can float on water with candles or fill the vessel... from the bottom. For the latter solution, you will need fresh rose, gerbera, daisy, or other colorful flower heads, or their eco-friendly fabric equivalents. A candle holder resembling a wine or martini glass will work well here – with a large bowl, a long stem, and a rather wide base on which a pillar candle or tealight can be stably placed. Simply place the floral composition under the inverted bowl of the vessel. The stem can be tied with a decorative ribbon that matches the overall color scheme.
Another interesting idea is to combine a vase-candle holder set with green branches. Simply fill the interior of a larger vessel with rather stiff and tall fabric plants – ivy, zamioculcas, monstera leaves. If the plant is natural, it's good to fill the interior with water. Finally, simply cover the top with a candle holder and place a scented tealight on it.
Kitchen treasures
The kitchen is a treasure trove of decorative elements for DIY centerpieces. Decorative glass candle holders can be filled with coffee beans, colorful pasta, peppercorns, or corn kernels. A glass and sizable salad bowl filled with a few handfuls of… wine corks also looks interesting. Finally, simply place a red or purple scented candle from KROSNO's "Romance" collection stably on them.
For all four seasons
Candle holder decoration adapted to the current season is always a wonderful table ornament in the dining room or during a festive gathering. A typical Easter or Christmas centerpiece with an elegant glass vessel containing a white pillar candle in the middle will emphasize the atmosphere of the moment during a family dinner.
Favorite large candle holders can also be alternately filled with elements associated with a given season. The aforementioned flowers or small painted eggs in spring, seashells and moss in summer, corn kernels or chestnuts in autumn, and baubles and pinecones in winter, accompanied by a candle, will immediately bring the right mood to the room.
Glowing in the dark
Handmade candle decoration can also be very modern. An example of this is supplementing the vessel with fluorescent pebbles, which can be purchased in garden stores. They somewhat resemble glass polished by the sea. Regardless of whether the wick is burning or remains unlit, such a decoration will be a bright spot in a dark room every evening.
All the mentioned decorations – candle holders in nautical, floral, festive, romantic styles, and many others – can also be enriched with small LED lights on a flexible wire. When placing pinecones, shells, coffee, stones, and any other elements into the vessel, simply slowly unwind the wire along the sides, from the bottom upwards, so that the switch with the battery is on the outside at the very end. Since candles mostly melt inwards, heat or fire will not affect the operation of the lights.