It's not steel, but try the EcoBuilt line from Overhead Door. I don't know how much they cost though.

Here is a link that might be useful: Eco Built Door

Raynor has a line called Accufinish that may be what you are looking for.

Here is a link that might be useful: Accufinish

we're getting doors from fatezzi. i received samples of the materials and it looks great. like you, i love the look of a wood door but there is no way i'm going to deal with that kind of maintenance. i first heard about this company from someone on this forum a few years back. sorry, i don't remember the name of the poster, but he had his installed and gave a positive review. good luck!

Here is a link that might be useful: fatezzi garage doors

So funny we are thinking the same thing and would love the swing out doors. Our builder recommended against wood unless we want to deal with the maintenance.

We found a brand called Clopay that has a Coachman series that is exactly what we are looking for. Hope that helps!

Here is a link that might be useful: Clopay Garage Doors

The Clopay Coachman series was my first choice but my builder talked me in to the the Raynor Accufinish doors instead.He thought he could get a better deal for me. I would love to hear from someone who has had experience with the Raynor option.

Amarr.com

We chose Jeld-Wen Composite Doors, but Amarr carries a steel carriage house with wood grain. The composite supposedly take stain, but I didn't like the test area, so we painted them. Less work for me.

Just updating in case anyone else is looking for steel carriage house doors with a stained wood look...

I couldn't find anyone in our area who carried the Raynor brand but was able to look at both the Amaar and the Clopay doors.

Amaar's "Classica" line comes in a dark woodgrain finish. When looking at images of the doors online, I was just about convinced to purchase the Amaar Classica Lucerne with Seine windows. I thought it would be PERFECT. But, because garage doors are so big you can't NOT see them, I decided I really wanted to look at samples of the actual doors before I bought. I'm so glad I did because as soon as I saw the Amarr door in real life I knew I would not be happy with it.

While the overall color (a reddish mahogany shade) would have been fine, the Amaar "wood graining" simply was not at all realistic. Amaar apparently impresses the wood graining into the rolled steel metal before the door panels are formed and then the paint is baked on (or something like that). Then, they stamp the door panels out of the embossed and prepainted sheet metal. The result is that all of the "wood graining" runs in the same direcetion (horizontally) even where the door is stamped out to look like it is made with vertical and/or diagonally placed pieces of wood.

The Amaar doors MIGHT look okay from 40 or 50 feet away but, as soon as I walked into the shop and saw the door (from a distance of about 20 feet) I knew it simply would not do. Having the "grain" running in the wrong direction was just too jarring.

So I went looking at Clopay as an alternative.

It turns out the Clopay's Coachman style doors ARE NOT available in the stained wood colors. Instead, if you want a stained wood color, your only option at Clopay is their "Gallery Collection" which does not include any of the crossbuck styles which is what I REALLY wanted.

Still, the Gallery collection comes in two stained wood colors (medium oak and dark oak) AND they actually emboss the wood grain pattern into the steel so that the portions of the door that are supposed to simulate vertical pieces of wood have vertical graining and the parts that are supposed to look like horizontal pieces of wood have horizontal graining.

I wasn't too impressed with the dark oak color. It real life it is sort of the color of melted chocolate icecream, i.e., a slightly greyish brown. The medium oak color looked a lot more realistic, a golden medium brown. It might be a tad shiney for some folks but real stained oak finished with a glossy varnish can be shiney as well so I wasn't put off by the shine. I was just disappointed that the Coachman styles (which include crossbuck doors) don't come in the stained wood colors.

I also checked out the Jeldwen composite garage doors that are supposed to be stainable. I decided against them for two reasons. First, we would have to have them stained and varnished on-site which would mean either finding someone competant to do the job or doing it ourselves... and of course that meant I couldn't see how well the composite would actually take stain. I even asked the salesman if he had any previous customers who had stained their garage doors that he might call and ask if I could take a drive by and look at their doors. No luck. But, what finally put me off was that, just like real wood doors, Jeldwen recommends that if you stain their composite doors, you sanding sand them down lightly every year and revarnish them! Our garage doors face west so for us so ours would probably need even more maintenance. I don't want to do that much maintenance on garage doors.

So, ultimately we decided to get the Clopay Gallery doors. With arched windows and the strap hinges, they look pretty good and were not too outrageously expensive. Installed price was right at 5K for all three garage doors (two 9'x8' and one 8'x8') including the three garage door openers. I'll post a picture when I can locate my camera again.

No doubt, next week someone somewhere will come out with a metal carriage house door in a crossbuck style where the embossing is made to run exactly like it would on real wood, and it'll be available in a perfect mahogany brown shade with a satin poly finish AND they'll be selling them for 20% less than my Clopay's! If they do, please just don't tell me. LOL!

bevangel, thanks for the update. It's nice to hear real life experience for those of us who still have these decisions to make. I'm looking forward to seeing your photos.

Our Raynor Accufinish garage door was just installed. It looks great. I will try to post a picture soon.