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What color garage door?

8 years ago
Hello! We are planning to replace our 3 garage doors before winter. We live in Wisconsin and the doors aren’t working like they used to. The garage faces South.

Could anyone help us decide what color? The house is the same color blue with white trim. It is an old farmhouse that is about 100 years old. The front door is white and the screen door is white. The roof is the same color for each.

I am leaning towards white right now, but I love the wood look garage doors! Any advice or pictures are appreciated!

Comments (10)

  • 8 years ago

    With the blue siding, I like white -- I don't think wood would look as good. However, in all fairness, I think we need to see "the whole picture". That is, the house that's attached. The garage doesn't exist in a vacuum.

  • 8 years ago
    The house is behind a lot of shrubbery. They are also separated by a pool and a yard. The garage really is it’s own entity off the side of the property.
  • 8 years ago
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    White works really well with that blue.


    Do consider choosing your new garage doors with a row of narrow windows at the top -- let some of that southern exposure sunshine in to light the interio --, especially worthwhile in winter in Wisconsin.

  • 8 years ago

    Edited prior comment to suggest windows in new garage doors.

  • 8 years ago
    I always feel like windows in garage doors seem either dated or modern. Will that look good with the farm house? I can’t picture it.

    I love the carriage house look to garage doors, too. But... with black or dark hardware on them I’m afraid of dating.
  • 8 years ago

    White

  • 8 years ago
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    What you or ones with windows.

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    I would do white with windows and add the carriage hardware you like. I think it will look pretty and fit in with the age of the house. Or these would be pretty. They're Clopay and have an 18.4 R value.


  • 8 years ago

    Without being able to see the house, you say it's an old farm house and the colors that you have now on the siding and roof are cool toned,. So if you want to do something different than just white, I would get a faux finisher in and do a white-washed gray look on the garage doors to look like distressed gray wood. And then I would get some garage door accessories so that the doors don't look so flat. They sell decorative hinges that you could put on each panel of the door. You could install "handles" that would be decorative only but made to look like the garage door is more like a barn door (as long as they don't impede the ability of the door to open and close properly). If you don't like those ideas, then I would get skinny pieces of 2x4s and apply those in a decorative pattern to the panels to make the door less flat and boring, and more custom.