Bedside candleholders: stylish or a fire hazard?
What do you think?
Having a naked flame near a bed is definitely a fire hazard, especially if unattended/asleep and no way would I contemplate having one.
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Also, if you intend having a naked flame in the bedroom, it could burn oxygen unnecessarily.
An electric light resembling a candle is erm stylish.
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The candleholder is not the fire hazard, it’s the lighted candle in the holder that could be.
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I am not so sure about that. Many years ago my Swedish sister in law had a wooden candle holder which ,when the candle burned down, the wax soaked wood burned beautifully.
Swedish design eh?
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Absolutely a hazard.
I get weird thoughts sometimes and I don’t have anyone to run it by so I’m grateful to you all for your wonderful contributions. I just got here but I love being a part of this community
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Fire hazard.
Deffo a fire hazard Justturned50! 
Having said that I’m a bit of a candle saddo, I love them. I have the ordinary candles, scented candles, tea light candles to melt my scented wax blocks, not to mention my incense sticks and cones! I just don’t leave any of the above unattended 
Oh…and welcome to the forum!
When you get to 74 anything naked in the bedroom is a no no JT50… 
Good to see you posting on the forum, long may it continue…
We have bought over the last couple of years a few really nice oil lamps from the likes of charity shops etc offten of an evening i have one lit on the bedroom window ledge, the slow buring and the glow of the light is very relaxing,
Provided you ensure the heat coming out of the lights glass is away from any above covering "ie cieling plaser/ etc or curtains or any thing else that could be effected by heat/ naked flame ?
then you have nothing to worry about,
Ive been using this form of light for over 10 years and have no problem,
And naked light’s from such as oil lamps are a very handy answer to power cuts,
Oil lamps have a certain charm daniel although I’d be much happier using them outside, on the patio for example. As for power cuts my preference would be LED lamps, just make sure you have a decent stash of batteries in yer emergency box! 
Hi
I have candlestick holders on each bedside
The candles are artificial, real wax, flickering LED, remote control.
I’ve seen those wax LED candles swimmy, they look really decent!
And you can set the remote control timer so they switch off when you’ve nodded off.
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We had them once or twice but then saw the light.
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Well oil be blowed!!!
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