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For those of us with front facing garage doors: can we accent them?

9 years ago
last modified: 9 years ago

Hi everyone,

Many house are forced to have front facing garage doors, and that can be a challenge when trying to improve upon curb appeal. If you buy a fancier garage door can you paint it an accent colour like your front door? If not, what body colour do you match it to if your house has two colours (e.g. one for brick and one for siding)?

Can we talk about ways to make the garage door an accent, style and colour wise so we can turn the front facing garage door into an asset?

I will show you my house under construction as an example. However, I think this topic is one that many face so it would be nice if we had a general discussion around optimizing the front facing garage door.

Here is our example to get the discussion going. We are debating painting it one of 4 colours:

1)Two toned (mostly siding colour- taupe, with grey on trim)

2)Red to match brick

3)A colour to match the front door (brownish red/mahogany coloured). Our front door is also fiberglass like the garage door so maybe it can be stained/treated in a similar fashion to the front door

4)Solid colour all to match the colour of the siding (taupe)

Here is the house with a bit of Photoshop work (option 1 for garage shown and railng over garage is Photoshopped in).

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