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URGENT Help : GARAGE DOOR DESIGN

8 years ago

Hello there,


Our garage door is stuck and it looks like we will need to replace it. Looking for help to determine what the new garage door should look like to improve the curb appeal of our home. Should we opt for ivory colored doors (like the siding) or the taupe color (that it is now) or maybe a light gray (to match the slight gray tone in the stone front of our home). Or should we think of a wood tone (medium tan) to add a new element. We do need to paint the wood molding in the exterior and change the roof at some point as well as the front door. We're not looking to change the siding color since that extends all the way on the sides and back of the house. So if anybody has a comprehensive view, that would be really helpful.


Apart from the paint, what design of door should we consider for our style of home ? From the Clopay Website, I identified the classic, gallery and coachman collections as possibilities. I'd really appreciate any help or advice on the matter.


Many thanks !








Comments (26)

  • 8 years ago

    I would do a dark colored garage door. You need to decide if you're going to pull cool tone grays or warm tone browns out of that rock on the house And then I would use the same color and put up shutters on the windows to help hide some of that rock on the house.

  • 8 years ago

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    I don't think you have room for properly scaled shutters, especially in some of the corner areas. We can't see your front door. Sometimes that impacts on what you want to do with the garage door. I think I might be inclined toward wood or wood tone on both garage and entry. It will distract from the over-abundance of stone. You should consider painting the garage siding to match the stone though. It looks to be stuck on as an afterthought right now.


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  • 8 years ago

    Thank you ! If I use grays, what color should I pick for the roof (when we replace it) and for the wood molding ? Right now all the molding is ivory except for the trim on the garage door which is taupe, the same color as the garage door.

  • 8 years ago

    Oh the wood does look beautiful on these pictures ! I agree that there's not a lot of space for shutters

  • 8 years ago

    Our front door is currently the same color as the garage, a kind of taupe

  • 8 years ago

    The garage siding is the same color as the side and the rear of the house. Its an ivory color, which is the same color as on our wood molding. You don't think the wood garage doors will make the entire house look much darker ?

  • 8 years ago

    Thank you ! I worked on the Clopay Website to try a few doors and none of them to seem to sparkle, if you know what i mean

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    IMO the last one would work if the garage siding were one of the gray stone colors. The other 3 don't work with gray. Refer back to deco's photo shopped doors.

    Radhika Sinha thanked Denita
  • 8 years ago

    Also consider shaping your tree professionally, which is hiding the beautiful stone façade and shaping up the rest of the yard. Your house is beautiful, but the landscaping detracts from it.

    Radhika Sinha thanked housegal200
  • 8 years ago

    The only problem with changing the garage siding color is that we'll have to paint over the entire siding which extends the sides as well as the rear. And how shld we think about the roof then ? Similar to what it is now or a different kind ?

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    A couple of other dark options

  • 8 years ago

    Search in the box above under photos for gray stone house. You should get some ideas for the roof color.

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    So playing along with some color, is this closer to what you'd advise ? They're both wood finish doors, with gray siding and slate roof. Or do you think I'm better off staying with the existing color scheme ?


  • 8 years ago

    A slate roof (made of slate) is just adding more stone. I'd keep things lighter on the roof. Wood doors on entry and garage though.

  • 8 years ago
    yes you're right, but a darker roof with more tones of charcoal instead of the brown it is now ? and with the wood garage doors, the siding in a shade of gray ? with the trim a darker gray ?
  • 8 years ago

    Use the darkest color in your stone and then search for a darker shade of that for the roof color. What color is the mortar? Can you take a close up of the stone?

  • 8 years ago
    here you go, a close up of the stone from both sides of the entrance
  • 8 years ago

    I'd use the chocolate stone for the roof color. If that blue stone is actually blue (as on my monitor) you could go with a blue roof. More classic would be the chocolate or a mocha though.

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