Should You Make a Candle Chandelier?

Should You Make a Candle Chandelier?

By now you are to the point where you like the idea of having a chandelier gracing your dining room. You can envision the lights glowing softly as you talk with your significant other about the day's events. Sigh. To use an overused cliche, it's candlelight dining on steroids. And you know you shouldn't have to pay $1000 for such an exquisite light feature. So what do you do? Build your own.

If you search long enough on the internet, you'll be able to find just about everything you'd ever want or need. This is also the case with making a candle chandelier. Now, if time is an important issue, then waltzing over to your Home Depot or Lowe's or your home lighting store is still the better and more efficient option. But if you have lots of time and are good with your hands and tools, then building your very own candle chandelier just might be the very thing you need to do.

If you've seen the number of fixtures on the online market, you'll know that many are very very intricate. Of course you will pay dearly for those intricacies, but they do exist. However, there are simple designs that simple to create as well. The design I have in mind is a chandelier in its basic form: a circle or a square with candles evenly placed on the sides with chains on the outer or inner edges rising to the ceiling to hang the fixture. Balancing the candles is critical to this design. Another design is equally simple: two boards in the form of a plus or an X with candles at the ends of each of the boards. The chandelier can be held up with chains rising to the ceilings from the ends or from where the X meets. That seems to be a much better approach as the candle flame won't heat the chain.

Again, there are designs for more intricate candle chandeliers on the web. A quick online search should reveal dozens of Do It Yourself designs. Choose one of those or be creative in your design.