Garage Door Style
A garage door takes up a good portion of the front view of your home. This allows it to make all the difference to the 'look' of your home. You will want to find a garage door that matches the style of your home. For example, a lot of modern homes are made up of clean, straight lines.
This makes a sectional garage door, with its natural lines dividing the sections, the perfect choice. Additionally, there are also roller doors, tilt garage doors and carriage garage doors to consider.
Garage Size
When choosing a garage door, you need to consider how big the garage door needs to be as well as how much space you have inside the garage. Your garage needs to have enough interior space to support your choice of garage door. It is worth noting that manually opening and electric garage doors have different requirements, with electric garage doors requiring more space. More importantly, you will have to ensure that you find a garage door that is the right size for the opening of your garage. Before looking at your options, you will need to take measurements of your garage.
It is important that this is done right. Take into account any fixtures or other obstructions, such as lights, that your garage may have.
Material and Colour
As with picking the type of garage door you want, choose a material and colour that compliments the style of your home. If your home's facade is all the same colour, consider choosing something that will add an accent to the colour. Adding some contrast to the front of your home will make it a lot more visually interesting. Alternatively, if you want to take a low contrast approach, you can opt for a colour that is adjacent to the existing colour on the colour wheel.
If you already have multiple colours, you will want to either choose one of the colours you are already using or an additional colour that fits into the colour scheme. As for materials, the principles are much the same. Choose a material that either contrasts or blends in with what is already there. Keep in mind that your choice of material will also affect the colours that you have to choose from.
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