How do you pick a garage door that perfectly suits your home? With a bit of know-how, it’s easy to pass the exterior design vibe check with flying colors. You can keep it simple by choosing a door that matches an existing color on your home’s exterior or go bold with an accent color.
Color is a form of expression, so you can have some fun with it. Here’s some general guidance to support your decision making.
There are two ways you can make your garage door match your house:
If your siding is a single color, for example render or cladding, it’s easier to find a door that matches. If your house is brick, matching the door to your siding is more difficult because of the color variation in the building material.
Matching to trims like window frames, fascias, soffits, etc. is easy if your secondary color is consistent. If you have gray window frames, white soffits, and a brick house, it might be harder to choose which color will maintain visual continuity.
These approaches help to unify your exterior design and narrow down your color options. But, it’s not the only way to make your garage door complement your exterior. You could introduce an accent color to your palette instead. This will make your garage door a real feature that adds extra visual interest to your home. Just remember the 60-30-10 rule – this reflects the percentage share of your primary, secondary, and accent colors to maintain visual balance.
There are countless color combinations that look great, but if you look around your neighborhood, you’ll probably see quite a bit of overlap. This might give you a bit of inspiration – whether that’s to copy a nearby house or buck the trend entirely.
On white houses, it’s common to see black garage doors for high contrast. It’s also common to see white garage doors that seamlessly blend into the exterior design, or gray garage doors for something more neutral.
On houses with warm, neutral tones, complementary colors like tan, wood-effect, or sandstone garage doors are popular.
When it comes down to it, if your garage door ties in with your overall color scheme and you’re happy with how it looks, you’ve found the right combination.
Whether you choose to perfectly match with your siding or complement your house with a secondary or accent color, a new garage door can give your home a face-lift. A great way to visualize how a garage door will look is to use our DoorVisions door builder, which allows you to apply door designs to a photograph of your house. It’s also a great idea to order color samples to see how different colors look in different lights.