When people think of garage doors, they immediately come up with this picture of a bare metal paneling that rolls up or down to open and close respectively. And for the longest time, the imagery has remained like that. Luckily, a lot of people who simply cannot tolerate the ugly "gray mass" have started to look for more options in both design and style. And for this demand, the answers of several manufacturing companies are: for style - up and over and sectional garage doors and for design - simple panels with interesting textures and different prints that emulate natural wood grain patterns.
Now let us look at both of them in detail.
Style:
As mentioned, for style you basically have two additional options. They are the up and over and sectional garage doors. If you are wondering, their difference mainly lies on their door leaf. While up and above doors have solid steel slabs, sectional doors have smaller and more manageable panels that allow the door to bend as it is moved up the ceiling.
Now to the question: which is better?
A lot of homeowners prefer the sectional garage doors over the up and above style because of the following reasons:
- For the people who like doing things on their own, smaller panels are definitely easier to fit and work with. This makes the door easier to install.
- It can be made to suit any shape of garage opening. It does not really matter if your car port is shaped like an arc or if it is angled because the "sections" can easily be modified when needed.
- They save space. They require little to no clearance at all.
But hey, if you prefer the up and above variety, then to each his own right? Just make sure that if you decide on installing that on your garage, you have enough space to accommodate the entire door leaf on your ceiling and you can afford enough clearance to allow the electronic garage door to swing to an angle prior to being raised up.
Design:
You can say goodbye to the unsightly bare metal finish that does nothing to your home's appearance. This is because now, the market gives you more options to choose from. Currently, you can get every garage door in almost all colours. And in addition, several companies like Hormann for example has come up with brilliant and breath taking design series that they call Decograin. To describe it briefly, Decograin is a series for all the lovers of natural wood patterns out there. This is because in this line you can find designs that imitate patterns that you can find in almost all varieties of oak and rosewood.
And if all those patterns and colour are not enough for you, you can also find doors with carvings and sometimes built - in windows that can give your garage some illumination if you want to.
Those folks are your alternatives to the ugly slabs of metal that you are used to. So if you have "suffered" with a conventional roll - up long enough, then maybe this is the best time to change them and give your front exterior a totally new look!
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