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Whether you're building a new home or renovating, your new garage door should complement your home’s overall look. Taking cues from your home’s architecture helps create cohesive and well-balanced exterior.
In this article, we’ll guide you through how to match your garage door to your home’s architectural style and colour palette. We’ll also share style suggestions and highlight some of Windsor’s best options to suit different home types.
A garage door can take up a significant portion of your home’s front, but it shouldn’t dominate the look. The key is to align the design with your home's architectural features.
Start by identifying your home's style. Ask yourself:
Once you understand what style of architecture you need to match, choosing a garage door becomes much easier.
A garage door that complements your home’s design can improve street appeal and potentially increase resale value. Therefore, you need to ensure your garage door isn't a stand-out feature for all the wrong reasons.
First impressions matter, especially if you plan to sell. Homes with good kerb appeal tend to sell faster and for more.
If your home's aesthetic is clean lines, solid blocks of bold colours and an abundance of natural light, it's likely to have been built more recently.
Contemporary designs are more influenced by geography and climate than the architecture of the past eras, so the specific qualities of your home will probably differ depending on the region of New Zealand in which you live. However, they generally feature clean lines, simple geometric forms and very little in the way of decorative hardware.
Windsor’s Flush Mount Garage Goors are ideal for these designs. They can be clad in materials like aluminium composite panels or finished in or Colorsteel® colours such as Windsor Grey or Karaka for a sleek, modern look.
Originating in the US, the Hamptons style has been adapted to suit the NZ lifestyle and climate. Home features include large floor plans, classic window styles (often with shutters) and a crisp, clean colour on the exterior inspired by coastal living.
White or light coloured garage doors are a great fit. A Pressed Panel Sectional Garage Door with windows creates a timeless, elegant look. Windsor offers a variety of styles that capture this aesthetic.
The most prevalent architectural style around the turn of the 20th century, Federation homes fused influences from France, America and Britain. Less formal than Victorian styles with their intricate patterns and more suited to our climate, these traditional homes are characterised by their timber cladding, wrap-around verandas and dominant rooflines.
Windsor’s Timbertec Steel Sectional Garage Doors offer the classic warmth of timber, with the durability of steel, making it a perfect choice for Federation-style homes.
While modernism began to pick up steam in NZ in the 1950s and 60s, it wasn't until much later that industrial style homes began to gain traction as warehouses, factories and farmhouses were repurposed into homes.
Industrial style homes often feature exposed structural elements, a minimalist aesthetic, and a confident combination of raw material choices such as brick, steel and glass.
Look for simple, functional designs. Windsor’s Aluminium Slat Roller Doors suits the raw low maintenance aesthetic of these homes.
Whether it has a pitched roof or flat, the distinctive organic shapes, clean lines and modest interiors of mid-century homes set them apart from other architectural styles.
To keep in theme with your retro home, choose a natural textures and earth-tones. Windsor’s UniCote® LUX Garage Doors offers horizontal slat profiles with timber-look finishes that deliver warmth without the maintenance.
The finish you choose affects both the look and maintenance needs of your garage door.
Windsor offers a variety of options:
The safest option is to match your garage door with your home's trim (like windows or gutter colours). Browse some of our past projects to see how others have achieved this.
It's not just your door's appearance that matters. Other exterior elements of your garage can also have an impact:
A garage door that suits your home’s style can make all the difference. Windsor Doors offers a wide range of New Zealand made options to suit modern builds and heritage home alike.
Book your free measure and quote today, and star enhancing your kerb appeal.
Start by identifying your home’s architectural style and colour scheme. Then choose a door that complements those features.
Not necessarily. It should either match or complement the colour used on your home.
Focus on the era, materials, and style of your home. Windsor’s experts can help guide you.
Look for a label on the inside, usually at the top or bottom, which shows the manufacturer and model.
