Garage doors offer aesthetic opportunities to increase curb appeal for Wonder Lake homeowners

This garage door in Wonder Lake offers an awesome
painted scene as the homeowners have made the most
of their flush garage door.

Garage doors are 7- or 8-feet high and 9- to 18-feet wide. Some Wonder Lake garages have two garage doors. That’s quite a bit of space and an opportunity for aesthetic enhancement and great curb appeal. But many owners of garages haven’t taken advantage of those opportunities.

Garage doors come in different styles and made of different materials. There are flush garage doors that are designed to look like nothing more than a section of wall. There are other garage doors with framed panels. As for materials, some garages are wood, some are metal, and some are fiberglass. The latter are often made to look like wood.

A common garage door size in Wonder Lake is 8X16. That garage door offers 128-square feet of space. A home with two 8X10 garage doors offers 160-square feet of aesthetic opportunity. Any improvement has the potential to make a significant improvement in a Wonder Lake home’s curb appeal.

The aesthetic approach to a garage door can range from stri

ving to make it fade into the background – to be as unnoticeable as possible – to making it stand out while making a statement.

The Invisible Garage Door: this is the concept that the garage door should go as unnoticed as possible. Painting it the same color as the surrounding walls is the best way to achieve this effect. If it’s a flush panel door it may still standout. For instance, if the wall around the door is brick, unless you can give the door the appearance of brick (difficult to pull off), you can paint it the same color as the brick but it won’t be the same.

These homeowners have stained their garage door. The
result is absolutely fantastic.

If the walls have lap siding, once again, matching the walls will be difficult. Staying with the same color is probably the closest you’ll come to making the garage door disappear.

The Stand-Out Garage Door: rather than trying to hide the garage door, this is where you try to make the most of the garage door – to make it stand-out from the wall around it. Here, the options fall into two basic categories: accentuating the doors basic style or something more creative.

Accentuating the garage doors basic style might mean painting the framing on the panels and/or the panels themselves. It could mean staining a wooden garage door or painting a metal or fiberglass garage door to appear as though it’s stained wood.

Another option is to paint a scene or design on a garage door. In this case, a flush garage door may work best. The surface of the garage door is the canvas where you can do your magic.

Whatever you do to your Wonder Lake garage door, any improvement will improve your home’s curb appeal. That’s particularly important if you’re selling your home but nice even if you’re not leaving.