Candles in your home

JupiterKid

Do you have lots of candles in your home? I smoke in my living room so I try to have scented candles about to offset the smell of smoke. I also like the soft light that candles give out.

I don't have candles everywhere. They are a no no in my bedroom or in my bathroom. I know a lot of people like to have relaxing baths with lots of candles about.

So, do you have candles in your place? Do you use them all the time. Or are you one of those people who only resort to candles in a power cut? Do you like harsh central lighting in your home or do you prefer softer lighting from lamps?

Do you use scented candles? Little tea lights or big candles? Do you think candles are over-rated?

Robsweezie

I do, but they leave an awful load of soot on the wall after.

me_irl

I have four candles.

No.. FOUR CANDLES!

I light a small tealight for a focal point in the mornings when I meditate. I'd usually light a candle or two in the evenings, but I avoid the bedroom because I don't want to fall asleep with one lit. I like scented candles but there are very few that don't give me a headache.

I hate those Yankee Candles with a vengeance, they all give me a headache and I've never found one that doesn't smell like a cheap car freshener.

maudgonner

me_irl wrote: »

I have four candles.

No.. FOUR CANDLES!

I know a girl who burned down her family home when she forgot she had left a candle burning.


So I stick to fork handles.

maudgonner

maudgonner wrote: »

I know a girl who burned down her family home when she forgot she had left a candle burning.


So I stick to fork handles.

My cousin and I set our Grans living room on fire with a candle. We were four or five and went down really early to watch cartoons one morning and found a candle on the mantlepiece, got a lighter from the kitchen and lit it, my cousin tried to take the candle off me and I put it behind my back, setting fire to the curtains. We were up the stairs screaming our heads off in seconds.

To this day, we blame each other. Granny blames us both because she's a sensible woman.

Yamanoto

Candie wrote: »

I light a small tealight for a focal point in the mornings when I meditate.

Same.

Then it's off for a fry in a truckers cafe by the docks.

Yamanoto

Yamanoto wrote: »

Then it's off for a fry in a truckers cafe by the docks.

Same.

Then a hard days work down the mine.

Zaph

maudgonner wrote: »

I know a girl who burned down her family home when she forgot she had left a candle burning.

Yep, my nephew did that too. And an old housemate did her best to when her amorous activities pushed a pillow into the flame of a candle that was lighting beside the bed. I've always been extremely careful with candles since that incident.

Pinch Flat

When the missus comes into the living room and there's scented candles lighting, she knows I've being farting like a dog.

mud

Yes I like those 8-hour tealights and I have some lovely coloured glass jars so my candles are as safe as possible.

Those led candles are just not the same.

I got excited by the candles in Tiger until I realised that they're only dipped in colour and actually the quality is very poor so unless they are for decorative purposes I just wouldn't bother.

Gimme a nice beeswax candle any day.

Smelly ones not so much.

retro:electro

Lit candles make me anxious. I'll light one, but only if I'm in the same room and it's away from anything that could catch the flame, and if I'm leaving the room I blow it out.

I remember coming back from mass one Xmas eve as a kid and a candle we had lit on the window cil had reached a flame so high it was almost touching the blind above it. I'd say another two mins and the lot would have been engulfed. Ever since then I don't trust them.

Surreptitious

I always light scented candles every day, I go through a pile of them. I like mediating as well looking at the flame. I have holders for them so the possibility of them going on fire on a standalone counter is minimal but I would never leave one unattended all the same.

_Whimsical_

My house is a no real candle zone these days. I started feeling sick every time I was anywhere that a Yankee candle wax stinking the place out. Turns out that there are lots of very dodgy toxins and carcinogens in a lot of candle smoke. I think I can do without them.

A fantastic alternative is these guys : https://www.amazon.co.uk/Mooncandles-Vanilla-Scented-Flameless-Candles/dp/B003JMW1G2

They are made of a wax shell but they never get warm or really smell or pose a fire risk. The led light inside flickers just like a real candle and the lighting effect it creates on the wax outer shell makes them indistinguishable from the real thing, you genuinely would not know the difference. I've had people go to blow them out in my house.

JupiterKid

Did you know that Dublin based Rathborne Candles are the oldest continuously operating candlemakers in the world? On the go since 1488!:)

Beeswax candles are lovely and have a pleasant, gentle scent. I like scented candles with Vanilla and Spice scents but dislike some of the really strong "fresh" scents which are like air freshener.

My big sis in Holland gave me a set of LED candles as a house warming gift. They are lovely - made of real wax and a gentle flickering light and no worries about naked flames.

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

Love scented candles. Have a really nice jo malone that I light for special nights in. I use a lot of elemis candles but recently tried sass and boho and I really liked them too. You can still get the scent even after they've been blown out

andekwarhola

Aren't a lot of the ones like Yankee Candles supposed to be carcinogenic?

The flying mouse

I like candles in the wind ...

jimmy blevins

Goodbye Norma Jean!

whiskeyman

andekwarhola wrote: »

Aren't a lot of the ones like Yankee Candles supposed to be carcinogenic?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/12103003/Why-scented-candles-could-cause-cancer.html


Can't stand the smell of them, especially when eating and the waft on them fills me nostrils!
Bleagh!
Wimmin seem to be addicted to them and those stupid diffusers :mad:

faceman

I have 16 Candles in my living room but haven't watched it in years.

Loveinapril

I love candles. Every night I light one, usually a scented one or a tealight under a wax melt. Like others, I am fussy about which scents I use. The wrong one can have me sneezing for hours. Penneys vanilla candles are really nice, the fragrance is light and they burn for ages.

Loads - I run a kind of free "guided meditation" thing in my house weekly that a few students and a few other locals attend regularly. And they keep bringing me the occasional gifts. And for some reason most of the gifts are things you burn. Be it candles or - ahem - incense of the not entirely legal kind.

Don't use most of them much - but if the national power grid every blows up or goes down - I will be the most prepared house in the area for light and giggles.

HS3

I light candles every evening. I love them. The centre one I have at the moment I bought in dunnes and the glow from it is so beautiful.

9or10

Zaph wrote: »

Yep, my nephew did that too. And an old housemate did her best to when her amorous activities pushed a pillow into the flame of a candle that was lighting beside the bed. I've always been extremely careful with candles since that incident.

Very embarrassing, especially if she was alone.

andekwarhola

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Loads - I run a kind of free "guided meditation" thing in my house weekly that a few students and a few other locals attend regularly. And they keep bringing me the occasional gifts. And for some reason most of the gifts are things you burn. Be it candles or - ahem - incense of the not entirely legal kind.

Try not to burn down the compound.

Ok will do cheers! (whispers: does anyone elese know what he is on about???)

Ciaran_B

I have a few vanilla candles burning most nights. Love the look of a candle flickering away.

cbyrd

I prefer to use a tea light with essential oils for scent. I find scented candles make me cough after a while, my favourite is a mix of lavender and ylang ylang, specially when I'm stressing. I'll burn tea tree if any of the kids are sick or have colds, eucalyptus is great to for stuffy heads.

There is no way, unfortunately, to mask the smell of cigarette smoke in a house. Smokers can't smell it (crap sense of smell from smoking) but any non smoker walking into a house can smell it, it even lingers on your clothes after.. ( I'm an ex smoker) best way to stop it is smoke up the chimney or outside..

Winterlong

Ya cant beat a few candles. (And a turf fire - but that is a different thread).
Jo Malone candles during the year. Lots of cheap red candles at Christmas time.
And the odd random candle at special meals.

The Backwards Man

It's far from scented candles I was reared. What next, strobe effect hurricane lamps? Bluetooth butter churns?


Well we used to have the ordinary ones for power cuts but you get much more light from a generator

Fleawuss

Avoca Number 6.

cml387

Candles are very hygge