Find a Wood-Look Garage Door That Suits Your Style

by Rachel Lyon, Editorial Director for The House Designers

When it comes time to choose a garage door, make sure to consider wood-look options. They’re available in a variety of formats to suit all style needs and budgets, allowing you to add a low-maintenance pop of natural interest to your exterior. Need some inspiration? Here are some beautiful wood-look garage doors that increase curb appeal and minimize upkeep—just what today’s homeowners want for their homes.

Garage Doors with a Wood-Look Paint Finish

The simplest way to achieve the appearance of a wood garage door is to paint it. Wood-look paint is more convincing than many think—it comes in a variety of light, medium, and dark finishes with authentic wood tones and woodgrain textures—and since it’s applied over a steel garage door base, it doesn’t require any special care.

Make sure to look closely to really appreciate the finish, because this isn’t just a repeating pattern slapped across the whole door. Depending on the door design, the woodgrain follows the rails and stiles like you’d expect in traditional wood construction, or it’s defined within an application where each panel or imitation plank is unique. You might have to remind yourself that it’s really paint!

Garage Doors with Wood-Look Composite

Wood-look paint offers tons of visual appeal, but if you want more depth, you’ll have to step up to composite. It’s much thicker than a layer of paint, obviously, and that opens up the possibilities. Composite overlays moulded from real wood pieces better emulate the material with the look and feel of premium hardwoods, and they also add dimension to the design that sells the impression of real wood construction.

In carriage house styles, the overlays stand out over the base to replicate the look of a wood design built using multiple pieces. You can choose wood-look paint or faux wood composite cladding for the base, but the overlays will always be composite to create the depth and shadows that set these wood-look garage doors apart. For modern styles, composite planks are applied in a way that also leaves room for shadows between the pieces. Whatever your preference, wood-look composite garage doors come in a range of colors with natural variation, or you can order them primed to stain yourself.

Painted Wood-Look Garage Doors

Finally, if you appreciate the classic look of painted wood, you’ll love that there are faux wood garage doors specifically designed for paint finishes. They feature woodgrain textured composite over a steel base to create plenty of dimension alongside durability. A range of neutral tones are available standard, but you can always request a custom color or even two to offset the overlays from the base—painted products give you plenty of flexibility, after all!

Explore the options available from Clopay® if you’re in the market for a wood-look garage door! Their lines run the gamut to offer homeowners fitting styles for traditional, transitional, and contemporary architecture, and with so many design and finish options to choose from, you can tailor your door(s) to suit your home perfectly. Find a local dealer to discuss your goals today!