How To Decorate Your Dining Room For Christmas With Taper Candles
Hearing the usual sounds of sweet carols and seeing shades of red, green, and white everywhere simply excites people for the biggest holidays before the year ends – the Christmas season. While Christmas traditions all around the world that ignite the festive spirit of the people differ from one another, they all share one of the best commonalities – putting up Christmas decorations. Every time you pass by your neighborhood, you won’t be surprised to see a variety of holiday decorations hung in their doors and windows, and there are even more decorations to see inside, like a Christmas tree, stockings, and candles.
Candles, in particular, are known as popular Christmas decorations as they light up any space easily. It brings warmth and comfort during the breezy Christmas air, and you immediately place candle decorations inside your home. Among various sizes and shapes of candles, taper candles are one of the best candles to consider inside your dining room, right before inviting your family for dinner. Here are some easy-peasy yet creative ideas for your dining room makeover using taper candles:
Stick it in Classic Candelabras
Incorporating classic candelabras, in any event, ensures utmost elegance and beauty. Instead of using the usual bling-bling candelabra centerpieces in your dining table, that might distract people while dining, stick taper candles into your candelabra to accentuate a glowing ambiance inside the room. These timeless pieces can be used during any occasion, and they work extremely well during Christmas dinners – both family and romantic ones. Also, they burn pretty longer than most candles since they’re longer, perfect to last until you finish the whole meal course.
The use of candelabras doesn’t only help with the overall design of the dining table, it’s simply because of the fact that taper candles, being thin and long, needs a candle holder to stand with ease. Among different candelabras styles out there, metallic ones would definitely bring the best glow for your Christmas dinner.
Hang ‘Em Up Your Ceilings
Candles present great health risks on your dining table, a fire hazard specifically, and they’re not a good match when you have children inside the house. So the best option is to hang the candles up on your ceiling where small children wouldn’t be able to reach it. Moreover, you have more space on your dining table to add it with more decorations or basically more space for plates and cutlery. Hung candles can be a great definition in lighting up the whole room, as it adds a touch of dim glow perfect for the Christmas-y feel.
Hanging taper candles can be a little trickier compared to other types of candles, so make sure to prepare candle holders, decorative lanterns or for a more unique idea – inside liquor bottles.
Play With Elements
Inside the dining room, you shouldn’t only stimulate your guests’ appetites but also take note of stimulating their visual senses. You can achieve this by playing with variety and flavor by adding different elements inside the dining room. Christmas is the best season to be festive and playful, so show your personality through these decorations. Aside from using taper candles, pair it with other types of candles to exude creativity – but as much as possible, keep the tapers highlighted.
Set your dining room with multiple tones, either sticking with the usual Christmas shades, or you can add up one to two tones of exotic colors. To play with the candle decorations, use a variety of candle shapes, sizes, and colors that would match the room, yet make sure to give taper candles the dominance. You can either place them on your dining table or shelves.
Go Winter Wonderland With Blues
What’s the best way to prep up for next year? When in doubt for this year’s Christmas, go with classic blue, which is officially 2020’s color of the year. Blue can be complemented perfectly with the whites, so you can go with understated, simple, but a frosty Christmas through transforming your dining room into a winter wonderland.
If you have more time for decorating, you can make your own decorations with your family, also to increase your bonding time with them. Some winter-approved classic blue decors you can try are:
- Wrap your white taper candles with silky classic blue ribbons, and on the contrary, wrap classic blue candles in white ribbons
- Pair the taper candles with glass candleholders, arranged symmetrically and alternately on the dining table
- Hang beige or white wreaths on your dining room windows and enhance it with classic blue embellishments
- Add extending asymmetrical wood branches beside assorted blue flowers, such as poinsettias, lilies, or amaryllis
- Add shape variety with blue and silver Christmas balls placed in white woven baskets
Conclusion
There’s no better season to have an excuse for putting up candles anywhere inside your house, especially inside the dining room, except for the Christmas holidays. You can decor with taper candle in numerous ways, either putting it up in classic metal candelabras, hanging them up in lanterns or bottles, pairing it with more variety, or choose a white, snowy feast – it’s all up to you – as long as you can make your Christmas extra special with yourself, with your family, and loved ones.
