Your garage door should support the overall design concept of your home, not compete with it. The overall design style of your home should be considered before choosing your garage door. Once this is established, consider the look you want to achieve.
Below are examples of common home styles and the garage door designs that best complement them.
Gliderol Sectional Door Designs
Traditional Home Design
Traditional home design draws inspiration from classic architectural styles, emphasising symmetry, proportion, and timeless detailing. Colours tend to be warm or neutral.
Garage Door Styles:
- The Gliderol Essentials Series sectional doors with a Madison or Oxford profile work well in a traditional design. The embossment features add additional character to the home.
- Consider adding windows to these profiles for more architectural character. And beyond aesthetics, windows allow natural light into the garage.
- For older renovated homes with smaller garages, the classic Roller Door will still suit the design. For a more clean look, you can remove the centered manual lock and include a Gliderol motor.
Colour Suggestions:
- Choose classic Colorbond® colours like Surfmist® Basalt® or Dover White® to either stand out or blend in with the façade materials on the home.
- The Gliderol Native Series are a wood-look range of colours that will add warmth to a traditional home.
Modern Home Design
A modern exterior design is defined by clean lines, strong geometry, and a restrained, intentional use of materials. Color palettes are typically neutral often featuring whites, blacks and grays to create contrast without visual noise.
Garage Door Styles:
- The Gliderol Essentials Series sectional doors work with modern style homes. Consider classic profiles like Madison and Tuscan.
- For those with a higher budget, consider real timber that can either stand out or blend in with the surrounds of the garage door. The Danmar Verti Panels feature premium natural cedar vertical boards sealed, oiled or painted.
Colour Suggestions:
- Choose classic Colorbond® colours like Dover White®, Basalt® and Monument®. Or for a matt finish, the Platinum Series Colours in Zinc Graphite, Silver Quartz or Midnight Matt.
Gliderol Specialty Garage Doors
Contemporary Home Design
Contemporary home design include current architectural trends while emphasising clean lines. Exteriors often blend modern simplicity with subtle detailing, using a mix of materials such as glass, metal, wood, and stone to create contrast and visual depth. Color palettes are typically neutral with occasional bold accents, allowing the architecture to feel fresh yet balanced.
Garage Door Styles:
- Consider specialty garage doors from the Selections or Danmar ranges with premium materials including solid acrylic, aluminium or glass.
- While these homes suit the specialty doors, for a lower budget option the Gliderol Essentials series will still work perfectly on contemporary homes. Consider a statement colour and try a clean looking profile in either Madison or Tuscan.
Colour Suggestions:
- Black glass can make a statement and add a modern touch on a contemporary home.
- When it comes to aluminium, greys and black work as a statement or can blend in with other statement architectural features.
- For the Essentials range, try a statement Colorbond® Colour like Nightsky® to make a statement. Or choose from the Platinum sectional door colours for a sleeker look.
Farmhouse Home Design
The Farmhouse home design blends classic rural character with refined, modern sensibility. Color palettes often include whites and soft neutrals with warm wood tones or dark accents. A modern farmhouse design is a combination of farmhouse features on a modern home design.
Garage Door Styles
- Consider real Timber Danmar garage doors styles including the Carriage Panel or Barn Panel design.
- Consider adding windows for additional depth in design and if you need natural light in your garage.
Colour Suggestions:
- Timber Doors can be painted. For a white home consider a ‘raw’ finished timber door and then paint it white to get a crisp look.
- A modern look can be achieved in a grey barn style door.
- For a more traditional look, consider a stained natural door.
Unique Architectural Home Design
Unique home designs move beyond a single architectural style, blending elements and materials to create a one-of-a-kind exterior. Garage Doors are often custom designed and used as a stand out architectural feature.
Garage Door Styles
- The Danmar range is perfect for these homes as we can make just about anything you want. Inspiration with images
- Materials like aluminium and real timber are ideal of these styles of homes.
Colour Suggestions:
- Consider bold dark colours.
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