Life of Brian

Over on Instagram I posted “after nearly a half century of service it is time to replace the garage door on our house”, but now I’m not so sure. Last year when I blew up the garage door opener and had it replaced, the fellow looked at the old opener and said it appeared to be from 1995, maybe the door was new than too. This would make it only a quarter of a century old.

Either way, it really is time to replace it. It is an old wooden one that has sagged in the middle over the years and now at each end the door does not hit the concrete garage floor, allowing copious amounts of cold air and leaves in. The sagging is so bad that it does all this in spite of the angled shims that cover the 1/3 of each side that had been added somewhere previously in its life.

Today we went down to the local Overhead Door place to pick up some catalogs and look at some sample doors. We have opted for a nice insulated steel door, but the question became, what style and what color.

We both agreed that we would like to keep it as similar as the current style, so that meant the long panel with the long clear windows. But what color, they offer a gray that is close to our present house color, but I was intrigued by maybe trying the brown color which is almost the same shade as the window trim and the gable fascia is painted.

So I came home, snapped a photo of the front of the house and “photoshopped” a new door in both colors. After looking at it, we both think the brown is a more interesting choice. See for your self, below on the left is the original, in the middle the new in brown and on the right the new in gray.