Wooden Garage Doors

Add Elegance To House
With Wooden Garage Doors

The complete look for a home is created with its interiors as well as exteriors. In fact, house exteriors are the primary and the first thing that one notices. And the easiest way to impress everyone with an elegant house is by the addition of wooden accents. And what better way to do that than with a splash of a wooden garage door!

A wooden garage door is one of the most popular types of garage doors. Wood is often preferred as a material for doors because of its natural stylish look, affordability and its easy tooling characteristic. Here are some of the wooden garage door options you would find in the market:

Raynor’s Wooden Garage Doors
Raynor has a range of wooden garage doors known as ‘wood carriage house style doors.’ The doors are suitable for residential as well as commercial garages. The woods used in the doors range from Western Red Cedar to African Mohogany. These have hand-forged hardware and have home handcrafted custom look. The doors wooden are available in swing-up, swing-out and bi- fold models.

Clopay’s Wooden Garage Doors
Clopay has a ‘Reserve Collection’ dedicated to wooden doors. These are cedar, redwood or hemlock wood doors. A popular Clopay wooden door design is ‘carriage door’ design. Clopay also has an interactive website that will help you in researching for the material of the door and customizing its look.

Wooden doors will also require a garage door opener. The well-known brands in the field are Genie, Liftmaster and Allstar/Allister. Good quality wooden doors are generally expensive, especially appearance-grade wood doors. An all redwood-panel wooden door can cost around $1500; and an all-oak or all-cedar paneled door may cost more that $2000.

Before buying wooden garage doors, there needs to be one thing to be considered. Wooden doors require a continued degree of maintenance like staining, painting or sealing. However, popularity of wood is because of one simple fact - a wooden door is always unmatched when it comes to providing a stylish and elegant look.