Interior Designers Liven Up Dead, Bare Walls with A Clever Wall Sconce Candle

Online, March 10, 2010 (Newswire.com) - The use of candles in the home is one of the simplest and cost effective ways of creating a much softer, more romantic light, which will help you to relax and get rid of your day to day stresses. It is also very common these days to use candles as an attractive decorative feature in a room, and never even light them. The use of scented candles as a table centerpiece gives a wonderful aroma to a room without ever needing to light them. Various models and stands are available to make them more decorative, and they are a cost effective way of improving a decorative theme, or simply bringing all of the decorations in a room together. One of the most attractive ways to achieve this and to add something special to your wall is with a decorative wall sconce candle.

For those not in the know, a wall sconce candle is candle designed to be mounted on a wall. They are designed to be used with a decorative holder to be mounted so as to which keep the candle a safe distance from the wall to avoid creating a fire hazard and to prevent black carbon stains from marking wallpaper. They have a rich history being used as far back as medieval times as a convenient and practical way of lighting up a room. These days they are more valued for the decorative properties than for providing light. The range of designs offered is exhaustive, with every type of style imaginable, from black highly ornate Gothic designs to more contemporary styles finished with precious metal plating and can add beauty as well as practicality to the use of candles in the home and really liven up boring walls.

Kate Middleton lives and breathes candles, and offers home interior design advice through her website. It is aimed at helping people decide on the best candles to use in the home in order to create mood lighting and improve the tone of lighting. "Candles offer the perfect low cost way of softening the lighting in a room, to create a much warmer environment, however many people do not realize the versatility that they provide, especially using a wall sconce candle" she says. "Through my website I wanted to offer the benefit of my experience, and have even touched on ways to generate an income from candles either for personal use of to raise money for charity".

"My website is still in its infancy, and I am in the process of creating an advisory service so that I can pass on my love of candles to others, and to get my home design techniques onto the internet in more depth". She plans to add a blog to the site soon, so that she can add information quickly and easily and build up a network of candle lovers around the world. "It would be great to gather information from the four corners of the world and to learn more about how other cultures use candles in their homes" she adds. She has recently started researching the use of the candles throughout history and is eager to use the blog to gather more research and to display her findings. It is a major project which at times she regrets starting. "It has turned from a hobby into an obsession of late" she points out, however has helped her to gather new ideas for her own home.