DIY Home Decor Projects for Valentine Day

DIY Home Decor Projects for Valentine Day

Romantic DIY home décor projects to prepare your home for Valentine Day include:

Candle tarts

Melt 3 oz (90 grams) of pink candle pieces in a double boiler over medium heat and add pink candle dye as you stir (optional). 

After the wax is evenly dyed, remove the mixture from the heat source and let it cool.

Add 5 ml of lavender essential oil. 

Pour the scented candle mixture into soap molds or small tart pans and let it set. 

Pop the molds in the freezer for 5 minutes to remove the candle tarts.

Display them in your living room.

                

Decorative Candles Holders

Using a glue gun, glue a scented pink pillar candle to the bottom of a glass jar. 

Mix pink bath salts or with 1 teaspoon of glitter and pour them around the candle in the jar.

Potpourri

Mix 1/3 cup dried rose petals, 1/3 cup dried lavender flowers and 1/3 cup cinnamon sticks.

Add 50 drops of a floral essential oil (like rose essential oil, geranium essential oil, ylang ylang essential oil or lavender essential oil) and mix thoroughly.

Put the mixture in a lid with a tight jar. 

Let it stand for 1 week as you continue shaking the bottle without opening it.

After a week, display the potpourri in a decorative bowl.

Lacy Luminaries

Glue pink lace around a mason glass jar. 

Insert a votive candle in the glass jar. 

Light it to create a lacy illumination.

Scented Salts

Mix 1 cup Epsom salts with 1 cup sea salt 

Add 50 drops of a floral essential oil (like rose essential oil, geranium essential oil, ylang ylang essential oil or lavender essential oils)

Add a few drops of pink food coloring

Pour the mixture in a glass jar without a lid

Hurricane Lanterns

Using a glue gun, glue a pink scented candle to the lid of a mason glass jar. 

Invert the mason jar over the glued candle to make a hurricane lamp.