| Bring romance back into your bedroom or even your | | | | specific scent you love, with a color to match the |
| bathroom by purchasing pillar candles. These types of | | | | decor of a room or your home. |
| candles include one or more wicks that produce a | | | | To burn these types of candles in your home, you |
| faint light that creates a romantic or soothing | | | | will need a candle holder to prevent wax from spilling |
| ambiance in your bedroom, bathroom, and living room | | | | out of the candle and onto your furniture, leaving |
| or even at the dinner table. | | | | heat marks and possibly ruining carpeting and fabrics. |
| Pillar candles resemble architectural pillars in that they | | | | You can purchase candleholders in various sizes to |
| are often tall and have larger girths than the stick | | | | match the diameter of your candle, and in hundreds |
| candles commonly placed in candelabras. These | | | | of designs, from tile, glass and even flat or concaved |
| candles come in a variety of heights and diameters, | | | | mirrors. If you do not use a candleholder, the wax |
| with some candles available in oval, rectangular or | | | | may spill down the sides of the candle and create a |
| other odd shapes. You may find pillar candles | | | | mess on your furniture. Instead of candleholders, you |
| between three and 24 inches tall or taller and with | | | | may also use common household items as stands for |
| various diameters, from candles the size of soda | | | | your pillar candles. Items you may use for this |
| cans to those with diameters as large as an entire | | | | purpose include old CD's, plates, bowls and even |
| foot. | | | | squares of cardboard. |
| Other options when choosing pillar candles including | | | | Another tool you may need to purchase when |
| scented and unscented varieties, along with | | | | choosing to burn pillar candles in your home is a |
| numerous color options. While many pillar candles are | | | | long-stemmed lighter or a pack of long-stemmed |
| available in white or off-white shades to more easily | | | | matches. You will need these to help you light the |
| match the decor of your home, you can also locate | | | | pillar candles once you have burnt it several times |
| these candles in shades of red, pink, green, blue, | | | | and created a hole or channel down through the |
| purple, orange and various other colors. Many time | | | | center of the candle. Unfortunately, pillar candles do |
| candle makers will sync the color of the candle with | | | | not always burn evenly or spill out over the sides and |
| scent they place in the candle. While unscented | | | | down the candle, so many times you must try to |
| candles are available in various scents, you may have | | | | light a wick buried down inside the candle. Reaching |
| trouble finding a strawberry scented in shades of | | | | the wick with a regular match or lighter often proves |
| green because such candles are generally made in | | | | difficult and a long-stemmed lighter or match provides |
| shades of pink and red. However, if you know a | | | | a solution for this problem. |
| candle maker, you may specify that you want a | | | | |