In doing so i found a start up from a few years back that created some pretty cool skins that transform standard metal garage doors into fairly realistic looking wooden garage doors despite the obvious gaps and shadows where the skins or panels meet.
Garage door skins wood look.
This product will allow any homeowner with a standard metal overhead garage door to add the look of a real wood carriage house door in under an hour and for less than 1000 00.
Wood garage door 1 strong steel structure solidity and non deformability.
You ll see what i mean in some of the pics and the video below.
But rick medlen of creswell or who invented garageskins has the answer.
Garageskins will allow any homeowner with a standard metal overhead garage door to add the look of a real wood carriage house door in under an hour and for less than 1000.
Almost everyone s got one most ignore it it s just there.
But one thing i noticed is that this development s garages have an early to mid 20th century look and i do like this.
Street facing metal garage doors are a tough design problem to overcome.
Over the years there have been some attempts in the marketplace to provide solutions to enhancing this boring large chunk of metal that stands so prominently on the front of millions of american homes.