Your garage door is the biggest door of your house. It’s also the most visible, which means it’s the biggest opportunity you have to make a statement with your home’s exterior. But what kind of a statement do you want to make? Do you want your door to stand out from the rest or are you more of the modest type who prefers to blend into the crowd? If you’re deciding whether to paint your garage door with a contrasting color or a color that matches the rest of of your home, consider the following points.
Why To Go With A Matching Color
If you have a smaller home and would like to make your house look larger, this is a great way to do it. By drawing attention away from the contrast of the door to the house, passersby will be less likely to see proportionally how much of your home is your garage versus the rest of the house. This also gives you the chance to direct attention elsewhere to a more aesthetically pleasing section of the exterior, such as the front door or your window shutters. If you happen to have a garage door that’s not particularly impressive architecturally or if you’re just not thrilled with the design for some other reason, it stands to reason that you wouldn’t want to draw any more attention than is necessary. Then again, if you contract a quality garage doors Marlboro NY company like us, you’ll have no such problem.
Why Go Contrast Instead
On the other hand, if you’re pleased with your garage door design, you’re comfortable with the balance it has with the rest of your home and you want people notice it, there’s no better way to let the world know where to look than to apply a contrasting color. You have any number of options to choose from regarding just how much of a contrast you want to apply. You can make your door ever so slightly tinted lighter or darker than the rest, you can make it the same color but much darker, or you can apply a different color and hue entirely. It all depends on how much attention you’d like to draw to the door. Sometimes, the garage doors are the only visible entrance, in which case aesthetic is extra important.
The Best Of Both Worlds
If you want people to notice your door but you’re not thrilled about applying a conflicting color, a happy medium is to apply just a contrasting trim. This way you can keep the original color and hue you were pleased with, but still have the advantage of a color contrast along the border to draw attention.
Hudson Valley Overhead Doors And Operators is a garage doors Marlboro NY company with the skills and expertise to advise you on how to make your home look exactly that you want it to look. Give us a call today at 845-876-2772 to learn more about our garage door installation services.