Garage doors are very, very, very tricky feature to pick out! They have lots of brochures and mostly everything is done on the internet, so there is lots of pictures. Which is all fine if the exact door you want is the featured picture on the brochure, and your computer or phone shows exactly what the color is actually going to be, and you kind somewhat see what the texture looks like, and you have a fairly good idea and ability to see dimensions and proportions! OK……it is NOT easy at all! The only ones that would have been easy to pick out is the ultra expensive wood doors. They are all beautiful and there isn’t a poor choice in the mix! But for what I call normal garage doors the choices are endless. There are so many ways to configure the panels and widows that I’m sure there are two of the same custom doors in Arizona! So it was a surprise when the garage doors arrived. I picked the color from a swatch the size of postage stamp. The doors are a whole lot bigger than that! I tried to pick a color close to the color of the rest of the wood on the house. I tried to pick widows that would match the front door in the right proportional size. The easy option was choosing the heaviest insulated door they had. The doors face west and they are a large portion of the west wall. So we needed to do all we can to keep the heat out of the garage. The doors are oversized to accomodate large vehicles in our garage.
I was very pleasantly surprised when the doors arrived and they are beautiful! I love the color and the “wood like” texture and look. The are heavy but move easily on the tracks and fully insulated. The windows are enough to tie them into the look of the house but not let to much heat in. The installers put them up panel by panel until they were complete! The only thing left will be black metal straps and handles for decorative purposes. This was not an easy decision making process but one well worth taking the time to think out!
Have a great day! Come back and visit Sweet Flower Home to watch the farmhouse go up!
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