Things To Consider: Garage Door Design Ideas
by Zap Garage Doors|30 October, 2020
The secret to finding the best garage door is ensuring that it doesn’t stick out like a sore thumb. Great architectural features should marry together in harmony, which is why it’s worthwhile taking your time to make sure you’ve chosen a well-designed garage door. This month, Zap Garage Doors will be exploring the different types of garage door design ideas such as size, shape, material and functionality – so that your garage door provides optimal functionality and blends seamlessly with the rest of your home.
Avoid mixing and matching styles
Firstly, it’s important to remember one basic rule when it comes to garage door styles. If your home is super-modern, you’d benefit from a garage door that offers clean lines and simplicity; you wouldn’t choose outward-opening rustic wooden doors – because that’d better suit a traditional farmhouse. Avoid mixing and matching if you want to maximise your kerb appeal.
Garage doors and entrance doors design ideas:
Style of door – walk down your street and have a look at your neighbour’s choice of garage door and consider whether you like it and if it’s within your budget. If it is and you like the style/know it would match your home and the rest of the street, this could be the option for you. You may wish to personalise it by painting its exterior to match the colour of your home.
Door accessibility – how easy is it for you to use your garage door? How does it open? Does it save you space? Can you fit your car through the door? All these questions will help you to discover how you’d like the door to open.
Door finishings – some doors do not have a clean and simple look but there are doors out there that will match the materials of your home. Try to replicate the same sorts of fixtures (such as handles), door patterns and windows.
Door colours – it might be the case that you can buy a door that matches your home perfectly without having to interfere, which would be great. However, if you would like to paint a colour that complements your home, you can do this too – as wood and metal garage doors can be painted.
Check that the garage door is to-scale – you don’t want to upstage the rest of your home with an overly fancy garage exterior. Remember, a garage is a small section of the home, not the other way around.
Consider different types of garage
Detached garages – originally used in the early 1900s as barns or places to store horse-drawn carriages. The detached garage was built away from the main property as there was plenty of space to do so. However, come the 1950s, garages were used to typically store one car and ten years later, the need to store more cars per household became greater, as women started to work too. This then led to bigger garages, to house more cars.
Attached garages – connected to the main house, an attached garage offers accessibility to the home, where getting in and out of a car can be done inside the home in one fluid motion. For homes without basements during the 1950s/1960s, storage space was limited which meant it was difficult to find room in their attached garages for a car. This is when garages became a vital part of home design, as more and more homeowners required extra space for their independence.
What has this got to do with garage door design ideas? Depending on whether your garage is detached or attached will depend on how you choose to design its exterior. For example, with an attached garage, keeping the exterior uniform is vital, so you’ll want to choose materials to match the rest of the home. But with a detached garage, you may be able to get away with something a little different and daring – but for enhanced kerb appeal, take the above into consideration.
If you’re at all unsure, speak with Zap Garage Doors. We’re Yorkshire’s premier garage door supplier and can offer you advice when it comes to new garage doors and entrance doors. With hundreds of doors to choose from and with first-rate brands such as Hormann garage doors, you can rest assured that you won’t be disappointed. Feel free to visit our garage showrooms for inspiration and contact us if you’d like to arrange your free site survey or home visit – we’re happy to help.
