I'm one that believes that a real budget needs to be allocated for garage doors that are a large part of your facade. We have a front facing garage and a detached rear garage. We did custom Spanish wood garage doors for our spanish style house. People would stop their cars and comment that they couldn't believe new garage doors could make such a change in the look of a house. We used Ranch House Doors, linked below, and they have lots of photos on their site that might spark some ideas. Here is a link that might be useful: Ranch House garage doors

We are replacing our 1966 front door and side light. The current door is a flat panel wood still in decent shape but some draft in the winter at the bottom. It is very plain and there isn't a window. Next to it is a 24" sidelight/window that is the full length of the door. It has some subtle leading in it that you see on the inside but a storm over it on the outside so no one really sees it. This was added by the original owners about 20 years after the house was built. We are only the 2nd owners. The door faces the north in a cold climate. We have a storm door. The issues - type of door, type of glass (sidelight & maybe door). design ideas??? DH would like fiberglass for the door for energy efficiency and low maintenance. We have an estimate on a Waudena and waiting for the Provia and Homeguard estimates. So far the issues I have is stain colors are limited and our woodwork is more of a (light) mid-tone oak. To me the doors look better the darker stain you go. Some of the mediums look OK. Other fiberglass issue is that there seems to be limitations on sidelight options for our 24" space. The outside will be painted black. We will get a new storm door as well. Or do we go with wood? Has anyone used torrified wood that has a 20 year warranty against warping etc? So far for the sidelight it looks like the option is privacy glass with grids or Provia has some Art glass with designs. I am concerned that the painted glass might look too busy and get old after a while. With the price of this and the headache it is giving me, we don't plan to do this again. I am OK with the privacy glass and grids but wandering if any other suggestions. I'm not sure if anything too ornate would fit the house but it isn't Craftsman either and I don't want it to look like a shower door either. All sales guys have been looking at sidelights for the 24" space rather than windows to keep the stain the same. We were thinking of a door with a little glass on the top. Could that be leaded with a design if the sidelight is just privacy glass or should they be the same? Any suggestions or advice would be appreciated. Or if there is a better forum to post this under - please let me know. Thanks.

Snap a photo on a sunny day then use the Sherwin Williams ColorSnap app to play with the colors. I would select a tone slightly darker than your mortar for the garage door and a color slightly darker than your darkest brick for the front door. I would then on the garage door install magnetic faux hinges and windows; this will add detail to the door, like the below house. I know they can be found on Amazon, not sure where else. Before: After:

Hi, great call outs, thank you! Yes, we will be re-doing the driveway, combo of new concrete around the garage entry and connecting over to walkway leading to front door, the driveway itself will be gravel, which will look more country and fit the surrounding better, there is a ton of driveway that winds around back of the house, that much asphalt will create quite a stark look. The paint is starting to chip in some spots so we need to paint anyway, had originally planned to do board and batten or something along those lines for ourselves, but now will just repaint. If we go white, would you keep all trim, garage doors, etc, white? Would the green door look okay with that, maybe I just paint the door as well while I'm at it? Also, totally agree the door doesn't go with the house, it was on my list to replace! Garage doors will be replaced (they're ancient and have never worked since we've moved in), I'm thinking of barn door style carriage to echo shop doors. Currently we have a weed lawn, and not much of one at that. Our lot is a freeway for wildlife that tromps through all day/night long, in particular the deer and turkey wreak havoc on plants as well as mulch (the turkey love to dig!). But some hardy landscaping, particularly close to the house/walkway in contained small areas (due to drought, as apple_pie_order so correctly pointed out) are in the plans as we get closer to listing.