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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 7
As I noted at the end of my last post, today we're going to look at something that is often used to display a family's heraldry, but one that can take a number of different forms, from fairly simple to...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 8
Moving on, let's look at some of the things you can do with your coat of arms in your home office. Some of these will no doubt seem fairly obvious, but there will also be others that you may not have...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 9
Continuing our look at some of the things you can do, create, or have created for you in your home office, we find the following:A little something on the wall behind your desk to remind visitors of...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 10
A couple of ideas for using your heraldry in your home office have very likely already occurred to you. But just in case they haven't yet, here's a few possibilities:Stationery, of course, with your...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 11
As promised at the end of my previous post, here are a few last ideas for using your coat of arms in the office (whether a home office, or an away-from-home office).If your office supplies you, and all...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 12
Having looked at a number of ideas for using your coat of arms in your office, today we're going to start a two-part look at using heraldry in your library.Please keep in mind that while the examples...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 13
So, libraries have books, and what other kinds of articles do you often find need of with your books? Or more specifically to our ends here, what other kinds of armorial articles do you need for your...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 14
The kitchen has often been called "The Heart of the Home". Is it also a place where you can find uses for your coat of arms and/or crest?I hope to give you a few inspirational ideas about that today....
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 15 - In the Dining Room
Having looked at a few ways to use your heraldry in the kitchen creating food, today we're going to start looking a ways to use your heraldry where that food is eaten: the dining room.Why don't we...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 16 - In the Dining Room
Having looked at ways to turn your dining room table into a display of heraldry on its own, today we're going to see how your coat of arms might be displayed on the various serving dishes and service...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 17 - In the Dining Room
Now, having looked a places in the dining room to place heraldry directly on the table, as a table decoration, and the serving dishes, we now come to that part of the dining experience that I expect...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 18 - In the Dining Room
Now, where were we?Ah, yes, in the dining room, finishing our armorial table settings. Having last time looked at ways to include your heraldry on the china and silverware on the table, today we're...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 19 - In the Dining Room
Today we're going to finish up our suggestions for ways to use your coat of arm in the dining room with a few final ideas for the dinner table, and then end with a few recommendations for those of you...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 20 - In the Bathroom
Moving on from the kitchen and the dining room in the house, we now come to a room that, at first blush, doesn't seem like a great candidate for a place to display your heraldry: the bathroom.And yet,...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 21 - In the Bedroom
Having looked at a few ways to display and use your coat of arms in the bathroom, today we're going to move just one room over and see how you might use your heraldry in the bedroom.A couple of...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 22 - In the Dressing Room
This post could have been a simple continuation of the previous several entitled subtitled "In the Bedroom", especially as I expect that for most of us, the bedroom is also our dressing room. But I...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 23 - In the Dressing Room
Continuing our look at some of the ways you might use your coat of arms in the dressing room, we come to some of the common masculine accoutrements which are also often used as displays of heraldry:...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 24 - In the Dressing Room
Now, having gotten dressed with all of our armorial finery, it's time to accessorize!Heraldic rings come in several different styles: enameled, carved, and the ever-popular signet, which can be used to...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 25 - In the Dressing Room
Taking the advice of Abigail Adams to her husband, John, in 1776, today we are going to "remember the ladies" in our uses of heraldry in the dressing room.Last time, we looked at some heraldic jewelry...
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What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 26 - In the Dressing Room
Now that you (and your significant other) are fully dressed in all your armorial finery, you are just about ready to leave the house and make an impression out there.There's just a few more final...
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