Wood doors are expensive, and the weight may require a heavier duty operator. They are the most beautiful (and you're maintaining wood already anyway). I forget the R-value variance between solid wood and an insulated double-steel door

A great option for you could be a wood look steel that is completely maintenance free? You'll have to see what companies are in your area (for what brands they carry) but for example, I have these "carriage house" doors from OverheadDoor and they pretty much look like wood. Embossed grain, sandwiched trim pieces for the 3D depth...

https://www.overheaddoor.com/carriage-house-garage-doors

Here's one of the doors on my house. Double sided steel, foam insulation between:

I've looked at the wood-look steel, and like I said they're out -- no available colors match my stain, the only way it would work would be a contrasting wood color (dark brown door against a reddish-orange and I'm not lovin' that), and I just think fake wood looks not good next to the real deal. But, the green steel may still be an option.

You might also consider a dark brown or a red steel door. I've seen both used with a log home and they look good too, besides the green which does look good as well.

You have a good point of "fake wood" next to real. Nobody really expects to see real wood OHD's anymore, but when you do it's definitely a statement. Then again OHD's aren't supposed to be a statement of the facade, but it is kinda swinging your nuts around lol

I'm not saying "don't" do real wood, it is the premier choice. I just have a hard time choosing "more maintenance" I guess, for this item

Have you looked into CHI garage doors yet to see their wood look? I am extremely picky and am very happy with the CHI wood look garage door we have (I hated almost all the others I saw). If wood or a green door are your only options, then I would do the green.

I looked at the CHI options on-line. Can't find any open showrooms by me, that's another part of the problem, I can't actually see the products IRL. To me it would be as bad as putting wood-like ceramic tile next to real hardwood floors, IMO it looks terrible and highlights the stuff that isn't the real deal. I did call a door company that will bring out actual sample pieces (other doesn't), I could just ask him to bring some samples, it wouldn't hurt to take a look -- there's always a possibility I'll be proven wrong. He also gave me the lead on a different wood door company I still have to check out.

I'm getting a new roof, too -- if I go with a green roof the green door would look good, but if I choose a dark brown instead, green would be yet another color in the mix so probably not a good idea. I'll have to take a look at more pics on-line to get some ideas, maybe there's something I hadn't thought of. I have seen a burgundy-red with log siding, that does look good against the right color logs.

Does anyone have a wood garage door that can chime in on their experience with it?

The wood stained garage door would not match your stained log siding. Different species of wood take on stain differently.

nhb22 makes an excellent point. With hours/days of "experiments" on a piece of wood the same species as the garage door, you may be able to come up with a formula to match the garage color to your home's wood. I did this to match base moulding to my flooring, but it's not for those with little time or patience, nor may it work in all instances.

"The wood stained garage door would not match your stained log siding. Different species of wood take on stain differently."

Excellent point -- I hadn't thought of that. My logs are cedar, but I'm not sure if they're red or white cedar. The garage door can be made in red cedar though the company the guy uses. Would there be much of a difference in how the stain uptakes between red and white cedar?

Although, come to think of it, DH stained this past spring over existing stain, the stain that was previously used was DC'd so he found as best a match as he could, but it does definitely look different than when we bought the house -- is now more noticeably red and darker in color (looks nice - just different than before). If the garage door didn't abut wood it wouldn't be a big deal, but if the stain is off it's going to be obvious. Cr@p.

Not knowing anything about the difference between red and white cedar, I would think there would be a difference. I know that there is a difference between red and white oak.

We plan to stain pine French doors and hope to match well enough to our Mahogany front door. Both will be a dark walnut stain. I know it will not be a perfect match, but the doors will not be near each other.

I actually don't think woods have to match exactly in the interior of the house -- I like the contrast of darker woods against my natural-finished red oak floors (about as neutral as you can get), and there's so much more going on on the inside (furnishings, etc). But I have a giant expanse of wood on the outside, mismatch = bad. And, nice as it is, this is kind of a wonky color - redwood stain over some sort of reddish-orange stain, probably very difficult to match. I'm really glad you brought that to my attention, it never crossed my mind but now I can see it's going to be a problem.

Yay!!!

mxk3 Sounds like a great choice! I was going to also say that if you could with a steel door, you can get it insulated much more than a wood door would be. And if you're in a log home, I'm guessing it gets cold in the winter and night... so having more insulation in the garage could be helpful if you have a workshop or use the garage for any mixed use space. Share a pic of how it came out!