Yankee Candle
Accessorizing your home with Yankee Candle collections
A lot of homeowners love to create little themes for their home, such as going modern or country or even provincial. Still others like the retro-chic style or even eclectic, with a lot of different influences tied together by a singular theme, such as a color, pattern or genre.
Yankee Candle collections are the perfect way to tie in a theme, whether it’s in a single room or through the whole house. While the larger pieces of furniture – the sofa, love seat, entertainment center and tables reflect a certain viewpoint in terms of style – the smaller pieces, the accents and accessories if you will, are what really make a house a home.
This is where you’ll find Yankee Candle collections to be a good fit. Covering a wide range of accents, from window tea light holders to specially themed lids for your Yankee Candles, these accessories are the dots on the proverbial ‘I’s of décor.
Putting it all together.Let’s look at the Country Fair collection as an example of how Yankee Candle collections can complete the look of your home. The company carries a complete selection of fair themed items, including a veritable barnyard of animals. For example, you’ll find a lovely potpourri warmer from Yankee Candle that is a rooster holding a feeding tray over the warmer. Just put in the potpourri, light the candle, and enjoy the subtle fragrances that pour forth for hours.
To accompany the warmer, you’ll find a lighthearted rooster and pig set of tea light holders that come in an attractive pen whose design elements are reminiscent of a chicken coop. The attention to detail in the company’s line is always amazing. These will look terrific in a country kitchen, as will the other Country Fair collection pieces that bring a little of the farm home to roost in your living spaces, whether you keep one area themed or the entire house.
If you want to go with a more subdued theme, you can go with rustic, which is very popular these days. Again, Yankee Candle has a complete lineup of beautiful rustic pieces in their Rustic Metals collection, from a convertible jar and votive holder to jar shades and illuma-lids, which help reduce the effects of drafts which tend to want to douse a candle flame. These lids also help the candle burn more steadily while distributing the candle’s fragrance around the room more evenly.
If you’re a wine lover, you’ll love the Wine collection from Yankee Candle. One of the more popular pieces is the potpourri warmer, which looks like a bottle of wine in a basket dripping with wine grapes. At the end, the warming tray hangs from the bottle neck at the perfect height above the candle, allowing just the right amount of heat to be generated to keep the potpourri fragrance wafting through the room for hours – never too much, never too little. A matching set of tea light holders, crafted in the shape of a wine bottle, will really add elegance to a casual dinner for two or a large dinner party. Better yet, create an entire party around the theme of wine and use your Yankee Candle accessories to set the tone.
Another favorite is the Pineapple collection. The pineapple is the universal sign of welcome in homes and dates back beyond Colonial times. The crisp look and the cutout of the pineapple will create a very welcoming look to your home and help your visitors and guest feel comfortable, encouraging them to relax as they inhale the gentle aromas of your favorite Yankee Candle fragrances.
Matching your décor, the season or your mood
If your tastes gravitate more toward modern, conceptual pieces, you won’t be disappointed either. The company carries a number of lovely styles that are more modern or contemporary, including Sandstone and Soapstone. Sandblasted Floral bridges the gap, giving you a slightly more ornate design balanced by the use of clear glass, creating a transparent lineup that is both upscale and simple.
Finally, you can always go seasonal. Yankee Candle has a great lineup of ever changing styles, including those for the fall, Halloween, spring, winter and summer. You can change the look of any room very quickly and easily by simply switching out the Yankee Candle accessories but using the same votives, tea lights and candles around the house. When a new season rolls around, take out the new collection and pack away the old. This will give your house a seasonal look year round and really spice up the décor for the holidays or any special occasion.
In fact, this is also a good time to change out the fragrances as well. In the summer you could go with beach or sea scents, switching to autumn candles in the fall. There’s really no limit to what you can do with Yankee Candles.
Discount excludes Howard Miller, WDCC, Wee Forest Folk, Flaunt, Trollbeads and Kameleon Jewelry.
