I think a 9' tall garage door will give you the look of a big garage door with a big space above it. Ask the person that designed the renovation for options of breaking up the expanse of wall above the garage door. Perhaps a window or wall finish change or gingerbread or lower the garage's roof or . . . .

After seeing it today I thought a window would look nice but it’s too late. We would have to go back through engineering.

I think it looks fine, specially as it means that your front door is placed higher and visually more important than the garage door. An 8 ft high garage door is fine ... I can get my tall suv with a cargo box under an 8 ft tall door.

My issue would be the width of your garage door and width of the garage itself, specially if you actually plan to park 2 larger sized cars/suv and store things in there, but you didn't seem to have many options to change/increase that part of the design.

We use the garage for a workout and laundry space and the cars stay in the driveway. We will now have attic space above for storage. Inside it’ll be fine it’s just outside I’m wondering about.

It will be fine. Everyone doubts themselves at some stage of the game.

That’s true. It’s all new to us

We use the garage for a workout and laundry space and the cars stay in the driveway.

If you're using the space as an exercise room and laundry room, then why even have a garage and garage door?

Why not just finish the space off to be more suited to these uses if your cars are just going to sit outside?

Google "overhang over garage door."

Will do!

Turns out we currently have a 7’ door and the plans call for an 8’. After looking at the house I do think it’ll be fine.