What Can I Do With My Coat of Arms? Part 3 - House Interior

So, having decorated the exterior of your home, and the entrance to it, with your coat of arms, what are some of the options for displaying your heraldry inside the home?

Well, there are so many ways to do that in the interior that it's going to take more than one post to cover even a portion of them!

One display of heraldry seen in many homes is a stained glass window, containing either a single coat of arms ...

... or, if you have sufficiently large windows, several, displaying heraldically marriages into the family over generations.

Additionally, a coat of arms painted on a wall or as part of a mural (though this one was done about 1300-1325, and so is not in the latest fashion for such things) ...

... or, if your ceilings are high enough (alas, most of the ones in my house are not), painted on the ceiling can really make a statement! Not to mention the impression it will have on your visitors.

There is also the opportunity to hang a coat of arms on the wall of just about any room, like this one here ...

... or as an overdoor armorial decoration on the way to another room ...

... or elsewhere, say, in the space over a fireplace mantel.

And such carved heraldry doesn't even have to be in full color; you can certainly choose to have one gilded:

or cast in something inexpensive, like aluminum:

or just carved in a plain wood tone:

Don't care to make quite that big a statement in your home? Come back next time and we'll offer some other ways to display your heraldry in your home in some more understated ways.