Overhead Door Company of Sioux City Blog

Residential garage doors are functional doors that allow homeowners to park their vehicles inside their garages. Residential garage doors provide comfort, convenience and security. But garage doors can also be a great design feature in other areas of your home!

Garage doors can be tricky, and malfunctions can occur at the most inconvenient times. If you experience minor issues occasionally, we have some tips that can save you some time and money when it comes to your garage door's function!

A new garage door purchase can be daunting, especially if you're not quite sure which features are most important for your home or budget. The good news is such a purchase isn't something you need to tackle on your own! Consulting with a professional can provide answers to your questions and peace of mind for you, as well as a more clear vision of which garage door best suits your home.

The Midwest can be mercilessly cold in the winter and unbearably hot in the summer. Thanks to heating and cooling, it is easy to maintain a comfortable temperature in your house, but unfortunately, it can be expensive to extend climate control to the garage.

For designers, painters, developers and anyone else who creates with color, the release of Pantone’s Color of the Year is a big deal. It helps solidify where color trends are going for the year.

Photo by Anne Sneed Architectural Interiors Garage doors can take up to 30% of a home's exterior, and with so many styles, materials, and accessories to choose from, you may find it can take almost 60% of your time trying to find the right one. It's overwhelming. That's why Overhead Door created its Design Center, so customers can easily weed out the designs they don't love in order to find the ones they do.

Craftsman Exterior by Dallas Media & Bloggers Sarah Greenman Out of all the colors, yellow is like the relative you love but can only appreciate in very small doses. While it can bring a pronounced cheerfulness (dare we say glow) to interior home decor, using it as a permanent aesthetic on the outside is a bold move, and one that shouldn't be taken lightly (or by the uninstructed).

Green garage doors may seem like a bold design move, but since the color is rooted in nature and restoration, it's actually not that far of a stretch. Ranging from warm, yellow tones to cool, blue ones, the color green makes a very natural neutral, complementary both modern and traditional home exteriors.

Pantone seeks to relieve stress and increase mindfulness for the modern consumer with its selection of not one, but two, colors for the Pantone 2016 Color of the Year. Rose Quartz and Serenity are said to "psychologically fulfill our yearning for reassurance and security" and their unique blending "demonstrate an inherent balance between a warmer embracing warm tone and a cooler tranquil blue, reflecting connection and wellness as well as a soothing sense of order and peace." At least, that's how Leatrice Eiseman, Executive Director of the Pantone Color Institute, put it.