Christmas candlesticks: festive home decor

New Year's candlesticks are an essential attribute of the holiday. They help create the very atmosphere that is called magical. The abundance of elegant candlesticks in shops and at Christmas markets does not exclude the possibility of making the most beautiful New Year's accessories on your own.

There are a lot of electric models on sale today with figures of Santa Claus or Santa, Snowman, and other New Year's characters spinning inside. In recent years, candlesticks for long candles, ideal for decorating the New Year's table, have also enjoyed considerable popularity.

Unusual candlesticks are those in which there is a stained glass painting, vintage elements. Today you can even buy candlesticks for the New Year from a glass - they look original in any interior.

Most popular, common and valuable. If you want classics, then these will be traditional candlesticks-glasses, but the color, texture, design can already be chosen according to your request. Among such models, you can find the most simple, cheap, but no less worthy contenders for the purchase.

There are also glass candlesticks, which themselves are ready to become the "kings" of interiors: pretentious, unusual, very elegant. They can come complete with a New Year's composition - a deer, a herringbone, etc. You can complete the composition yourself with live spruce branches.

It is also a popular decor option, since it is the gingerbread house that has been giving birth to pleasant New Year's associations for more than a decade. A lot of candlesticks of this design are sold today in a store of the same price, they cost very little, but they are able to revive the still insufficient New Year's interior with their appearance. But there are options for candlesticks presented by a set for creativity - that is, you yourself need to paint the base, decorate (as a rule, with acrylic paints). To paint such a gingerbread house means to recharge with a festive mood.

The simplest and most understandable orange in skillful hands becomes a cute and eye-catching candlestick. You just need to competently, carefully cut out all the pulp from it and, using a knife correctly, make a curly base from the peel. It is convenient to cut Christmas trees and stars in the walls of an orange with metal cookie cutters. Usually, such an unusual candlestick is complemented by other tasty elements - a carnation, for example, it successfully "digs" into the peel, allowing itself to draw any pattern.

Cones are another eternal attribute of the holiday. Of course, it is possible to apply them relative to the candlestick, and there will be more than one use case. If you find a large bump, cut out the inside of it and put a thin glass with a candle there. - you get a real winter candlestick. But you can do it in another way.

You can make a wreath of bumps that will surround a glass with a pill candle inside. You can fix the cones along with other forest decorations on the cut of the tree. After creating the composition, sprinkle everything with artificial snow, not forgetting to leave a place for the candle.

The New Year's master class will be successful even for those who have not previously been involved in independent production of decor. If the options are more complicated (from salt dough, for example, or stained glass) seem impracticable, then a candlestick made from a jar and decorative stones with your own hands will be quite feasible. For work you need:

• decorative stones - sold in any store with home decor, are inexpensive;
• silicone glue;
• a suitable shape and size glass jar;
• twine or tape;
• candle.

The step-by-step instructions are as follows.

1. The jar needs to be washed, removed from the label, dried.
2. The glue should be applied pointwise to each decorative stone (on a flat base), starting to glue the jar with stones from the neck area. If not glued from the top row, the candlestick may not turn out neat.
3. The next line of stones can be applied in a checkerboard pattern.
4. Thus, you need to glue the entire surface of the can.
5. The neck is decorated with twine, ribbon, braid, lace, anything that can fit this pattern.

Instead of large decorative stones, you can take sea pebbles, coarse salt (even pink will do), any other decorative elements that are suitable in texture. Such a candlestick will decorate the table, window area, it can be put on a shelf. A decorated cut of a tree can be used as a stand.

Other options for simple candlesticks from a jar - how to decorate:

• lace - it turns out very gently, delicately, neatly;
• paints and stencils - with ordinary gouache, you can paint over the surface of the can, in addition to the place that is left under the stencil;
• braid and buttons;
• needles;
• seeds;
• cinnamon sticks;
• strips of design paper;
• beads or even beads wrapped in several rows;
• sequins;
• rhinestones according to the scheme to get a certain pattern;
• white-painted branches with silvered tips;
• foamiran with sparkles;
• crepe paper.

If you make a candlestick from a glass, then a whole composition of such products will look more impressive. Surround the glasses with beads, spruce branches, dried citrus fruits, sweets - and you get the perfect decoration for the center of the New Year's table.

Candlesticks are a decor, without which the New Year's interior is practically unthinkable. And if the owner of the house himself had a hand in making this decor, he will receive not only a lot of compliments from relatives and guests, but also a lot of pleasure. Here are examples of beautiful handmade Christmas candlesticks.

• Classic, simple to create, but always captivating the eyes and hearts. Perfectly adjusts to the desired mood, complements any valuable gift or acts as an independent New Year's present.

• A candlestick made from an inverted glass - what could be easier. And the inner filling does not require hassle, balls, as well as beads, will do it best.

• If you take twigs, cover them with fake snow, sprinkle with glitter hairspray, or simply work on them with dyes (and silver ones too), you can get such a fragile and touching, very atmospheric candlestick.

• An excellent option, in which there is nothing superfluous - glass, water, berries, fire. Very cozy, these models fit perfectly into the eco-style.

• If you want to quickly and uncomfortably make a New Year's fragrant candlestick, you just need to take a beautiful glass and coffee beans. Well, a thin ribbon or braid as a final touch. In the morning, such a candlestick will invigorate and set you in a festive mood.

• Someone likes deliberately rude things, as if devoid of glossy decorativeness. And for many interiors, they are like a godsend. For example, a candlestick made by yourself.

• If you dress up a simple candlestick in a sock, it will turn out to be winter, cozy, New Year's. Simple but cute.

• Jar, lace, cones, salt. Everything is real and eco-friendly, for a natural decor - what you need.

• And kids can be pleased with such a sweet candlestick, and in order not to want to climb into it and "take it apart", you can come up with a story about sweets that make a wish come true. But not right away, at first they need to ripen for a couple of weeks to become sweet-sweet.

• Where on holiday and without a deer - a large candlestick for accents in the New Year's interior.

Happy search and beauty to the New Year's house!

By watching the following video, you will learn how to make a cute holiday candlestick.