Unique Ways to Personalize Your Garage Door
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Your home’s garage may be intended just for vehicle storage, but it’s still a major aspect of your property’s curb appeal. An unsightly garage door can tarnish the appeal of an otherwise picturesque home, while a snazzy garage door can jazz up a humdrum house’s image.
If you want to inject some personality and glamour into that bare-bones, off-white gate covering your garage, here are some unique ways to personalize your garage door.
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Personalize your garage door with these creative additions
Temporary embellishments
The quickest, cheapest way you can spruce up a garage door is by purchasing embellishments to attach to it. A set of magnetic faux hinges and handles can make a bland, standard garage door look like a pair of high-end carriage-style doors. If your garage door doesn’t have windows on it, you can break up the basic, monochromatic surface by sticking adhesive film on top of the garage door that make it look like it has windows.
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Alter the surface
You can make your garage door look like a completely different design without having to pay for a brand-new door. Talk with the paint expert at your local hardware store to find a hue that would coincide with the color scheme of the rest of your house. Or, they could tell you how to use particular brushing techniques to make a metal garage door look like it’s stained wood.
If you’d prefer real wood over paint, you can buy beams of thin wood to cover the existing door so it looks like a fully wooden door (much like how the fake brick wall covers work). Companies online sell kits of DIY wood garage facades so you can order the right size for your home.
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Paint a design
If you care more about customizing your home to fit your unique spirit instead of trying to update it to blend in, a garage door makes a stellar painting canvas. Commission an artist (or do it yourself if you have skills) to depict a colorful landscape, a scene from your favorite cartoon or children’s book, vivid graffiti, or clever street art that resembles a Banksy mural.
Optical illusions are particularly fun designs for a garage door. Paint it to look like a wall of book shelves, the entrance to a tunnel to a different place, or an open garage with a classic car parked inside.
Add a light
Install a light figure next to or over the door. Attractive illumination can light up a bland garage door by making it look warm and welcoming. And if you paint your garage door, show off your work with a spotlight!
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