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!

This guy makes beautiful doors. Even if you don't order from him you have to look at the gallery. We considered ordering from him but we have to heat our garage, so I wanted the highest R value possible (we ended up going with insulated steel that has an R value of about 18). Here is a link that might be useful: Maine Doors

Assuming you are referring to the Ranch House collection by Overhead Door, we have had the series #147 for a couple of years now. The door is very nice and, as long as you apply stain once a year, not too difficult to maintain. However, in our area snow has built up outside of our door causing water to seep into the garage when it melted. As a result we recently purchased and installed plastic strips (will paint to match the trim color on the building) to seal around the top and sides of the door and prevent water seepage. Since they will blend in with the trim around the door, the strips won't noticably detract from the appearance of the door. We also had to relocate the hardware on the door because the sealing strips covered the ends of the metal faux hinges. We also replaced the thin rubber gasket on the bottom of the door with a p-trap type rubber seal and attached a rubber threshhold to the garage floor for good measure. We have the same type of sealing system around the steel doors on another garage, so I'm not suggesting the water problem is specific to wood doors. I just want you to know there may be gaps around your door once it is installed and, depending on your climate, you may have to install some type of seals to keep the weather out.

No problem. Well, more than likely you will have to turn to a custom door manufacturer to build a replacement panel, but with so many manufacturers producing "carriage style" garage doors, I do not think it would be difficult for you to get a replacement door that would compliment the remaining two. Holmes Garage Doors was an extremely popular wood garage door manufacturer. The company was purchased by Clopay Corp. several years ago and the brand was phased out on the West Coast. It is however still available east of the Mississippi. http://www.holmesgaragedoor.com/where.asp A manf. that we work with on the West Coast has a facility in Old Fort North Carolina. They may be able to build you a replacement panel. Or, their company offers custom designs which generally do not add anything to the overall cost. Re-reading your original post, it sounds like your door is fairly simple. If you have flush exterior panels, I don't think it will be difficult for them to build a door to match the others. The East Cost division of Carriage House Door Company is 877-668-1601 Good luck and let me know if I can be of any further assistance.