Overhead Door Company of Sioux City Blog

A garage door is a major part of the exterior of your home. For homes with an attached garage, it is often times used as the primary entrance. That’s a lot of going up and down, which causes wear and tear over time. When you’re ready to replace your attached garage door, consider having Overhead Door™ install an insulated door.

Traditionally, fake items – from fake dollar bills to fake designer handbags – are considered less than desirable. However, fake isn’t always bad. In fact, we at Overhead Door of Sioux City and Yankton believe that “fake” can be “fabulous,” at least when it comes to our faux wood garage doors! These popular doors deliver all of the following benefits:

Feta cheese and watermelon. Peanut butter and green apple slices. Iowa Hawkeyes and a national championship title. The above may seem like unlikely pairings, but they actually go quite well together (especially those Hawks…one of these days). We’re seeing another unlikely pair crop up in our industry that we are starting to get pretty excited about: garage doors and living rooms.

If a garage door is in your future for 2017, our Overhead Door DoorView Visualizer can make quick and easy work of designing the perfect one for your home.

Whether you are building a new home in Sioux City or enjoying an established house in Yankton, you probably have a garage door that is taking up a large portion of your home’s exterior. Often the first thing visitors see when they arrive, garage doors have several chances to make a big impression—and they often do.

Siouxland homeowners, and homeowners throughout the country, are trading in their white raised panel garage doors to ones featuring wood, unique windows, patterns, and colors. They also aren’t shy about making their garage doors a statement piece in their curb appeal, a design shift that certainly makes us happy.

You can’t mistake the luxury and character of wood. It adds warmth and personality to everything it touches and frames in a home, particularly when it is used for garage doors. In this post, we’ll explore the various ways homeowners have capitalized on wood’s ability to soften, enrich, and define a home’s exterior aesthetic, especially when it comes to today’s contemporary leanings.

Photo by Studio S Squared Architecture, Inc. - More craftsman exterior photos Garage doors in Sioux City and Yankton are often prominent parts of their homes, sometimes encompassing more than 30% of a home’s forward-facing façade. That’s a lot of façade. The home in the above photo is a prime example; is your eye drawn to the gorgeous front door or the charming bench off the patio? Probably not. Your eye keeps getting pulled back to the garage door.

We all know the function of garage doors is important. And, for most homeowners, so is its form. Choosing the right style of garage door for your home is just as important as knowing what materials to choose, what size is appropriate, and what accessories can improve its function and your peace of mind.

Want the look of swing-open garage doors with the convenience of traditional paneled operation? Meet the Overhead Door Signature Carriage Collection. These gorgeous solid wood doors reflect the handmade artistry you'd expect of expert Amish craftsman with the variety and style you're looking for in your home.