Fireplace Candle Ideas

Tiers of Tea Lights

• A quick and easy way to add an inexpensive grouping of candles to your fireplace is with tea lights. Place the tea lights at different heights to make the grouping interesting. Arrange short, medium and tall clear drinking glasses turned upside down throughout the floor of your fireplace opening and place a tea light on top of each one. This is a great way to have fire for aesthetics in warmer weather or as a quick decorative idea when hosting a get together.

Every Candle in the House

• Ecliptic arrangements of candles work well inside a fireplace opening. Use all the candle holders you can find around your home from the tall taper holders to short votives and arrange them throughout the fireplace floor.

Mirrored Pillar Candles

• Lean a few mirror tiles or a small wall mirror against the back of the fireplace opening. In front of the mirrors place four or five plain white pillar candles that are sitting on top of saucers. Use pillars of all different sizes, both in height and thickness. When this grouping is lit, it will give the illusion of double the candlelight.

Floating Candles

• Use a large, clear glass punch bowl and fill it with water that is tinted with blue food coloring. Place floating candles inside this bowl and put it inside your fireplace opening. Place a few champagne glasses around the bowl filled with the same colored water and one floating candle. Your friends will not only be amazed at your creativity, but the fire and water reflections will keep them mesmerized, just as a roaring fire would.

Colored Votives

• Pick up some inexpensive mirrored tiles and place them on the floor of your fireplace. Place multicolored votive candle holders on top of the mirrors. Once lit, the lights will resemble the colors in Christmas lights. This arrangement works well for the holidays or any other time you want to bring in some color to your candlelit fireplace.