Well, yes, it's possible that it could look ridiculous but at $35 and with a 4.4 of 104 reviews, it couldn't hurt to try. Did you read the reviews?

Pretty neat idea!

Silly.

Ridiculous. If you want Windows add the real thing to your existing door.

I drive past a house that has fake windows. I noticed they were fake before I ever knew there was an actual product. Here's what I would think about: Garages are something that are only added to our houses in order to house our cars--they are not decorative elements. Great architects (not the ones designing close-together tract homes--and I live in one, so I know) spend their time designing garage doors that aren't visible from the street if possible (no front-loading garages). Or, they recede the garage back from the front of the house. And nowadays, where I live in SoCal, people mostly paint out their garages in the same body color as the house, because you don't want your garage to pop out like a decorative feature.

It's not a decorative feature! It's a utilitarian necessity. Therefore, don't put some fake sticker thing on there. personally, with the increase in crime in SoCal, I wouldn't want thieves to look in my garage windows, as they are known to do, and I think any garage windows are a liability in that way. I wouldn't want them, and I wouldn't want fake ones either.

There are tons of ways to improve the front of the house, and this isn't one of them.

It's 35 dollars and not a first world problem! And for the record, a garage is not a utilitarian necessity. My little retirement condo does not have a garage and my crappy apartment in L.A. certainly didn't have a garage and my car hasn't exploded or evaporated.

Maybe with global warming, things may change.

Well, where I live it's pretty much a necessity for an average family living a normal middle class life. In SoCal, there are no basements that I've ever seen, and garages are often used for storage of kids' bikes, sports equipment, Xmas/seasonal decor, lawn care/gardening storage.....

I guess my term "necessity" was used too loosely for you. I live in Suburbia, and every single home has a garage. For all I know, they are required by zoning, and many HOA's (including mine) do not allow cars to be parked on the street for any length of time, not even overnight. There are no carports allowed. So my use of the word necessity, though apparently offensive to you, was meant more as a reference to how common garages are as appendages to houses in the modern life of the middle class.

I never said it was a "first world problem" and I was trying to answer the question asked by the OP. Nothing I said referenced any dangers of parking cars outside garages. Interesting extrapolation about global warming and exploding cars, though.

I liked the idea of replacing the top panel of the door. If the rest of the door is in good shape it could work great. Get the brand/model off the sticker if you can find one, or take a bunch of pics of the door to a garage door company and see if they recognize it. Those guys can often hit it right on the head just by looking at it.

A garage door is pretty much a "necessity" here unless I want all my stuff stolen.

One benefit of replacing the top panel with "real" windows is that it lets natural light into an otherwise fairly dark place. I have windows in the top panel of my garage door and appreciate the extra light coming in when I go into the garage during the day and do not need to open the garage door. This is assuming that you have another access into the garage from the house.

Joe, maybe in LA garages are not necessary, but try living where you get 50" of snow every winter and have to dig out every morning to go to work. So yes, for YOU a garage may not be necessary. We all don't live in LA.

I agree @Lezlie Cooper. Or even worse ice. Try to get that off your car early in the AM while slipping around with ice and snow on the ground and car. Garages are not needed in Southern CA but definitely are in the upper Midwest where I live.

You're kind of missing the point of my post which was tongue in cheek that Mrs. S was seemingly, impassioned that the OP not spend $35 bucks on something that might make her happier about her garage and that she could easily see for herself. Like the way everyone jumps up and down on this site if you mention a barn door.

And for the record ... garages are not a necessity, nor is the phone I'm typing on or the settee we think we "need" for the entry way. They are the implements and creature comforts of our lives but not necessities. Did you ever watch Little House on the Prairie on that non-necessity box called the TV?

I think the advertising is a little (a lot) deceptive in that the "before" picture is of a plain white garage door, while the "after" is of a door with woodgrain. You would be better off taking the $35 to the local casino and winning enough for a garage door with real windows.

(Hey, if Joe can be tongue in cheek so can I)