Garage doors boost both the visual and practical operation of a home. Garage doors often serve as a focal point for the exterior—particularly at the front of the house—and go a long way to create a great first impression. Whether your home’s architecture is modern, traditional, or something else, a well-chosen garage door that complements the style can create a surprisingly strong visual impact. Just like front doors and windows, garage doors are crucial to home security. Properly insulated garage doors contribute to the comfort and energy efficiency of your home and will often let much-appreciated natural light into the garage, enhancing overall brightness. In this blog, we explore a variety of garage door styles and materials, as well as the use of windows, that can offer the perfect solution to elevate the architecture of your home’s exterior, stylishly, and affordably.
The Aesthetic Appeal of Garage Door Windows
Both the aesthetics and the functionality of a garage door design can be enhanced by windows. There’s a wide variety of window styles to choose from—traditional divided lites to a more modern full-panel glass view. These styles provide the opportunity to give the house a look that will match its architecture style.
Windows provide natural light and give a garage more of an open space feel. Of course, these are natural light solutions for a garage door.
Generally, the design of a garage door varies depending on whether it'll be made in a contemporary or carriage-house style. Garage door designs are made to look aesthetically pleasing and are made according to the owner’s preference for garages. A custom wooden garage door can be equipped with small traditional windows that match the house’s existing lighting fixtures. If the owner wants, they could also design the door to incorporate vertical windows along the right and left sides of the garage. Generally, window design options will vary with each new design. The windows compared to the individual designs add value to the design in a more upscale way. Attractive lites will be standard per customer size requests around the house installation purchases.
Choosing the Right Garage Door Opener for Windows
The presence of windows or "lites" on your garage door may very likely affect what you look for in a garage door opener. With lites in the mix, you likely see the garage door as an aesthetic object—why else have an attractive, windowed door?—and so may also value a smoother, quieter (more peaceful, after all) operation.
A windowed, and so likely more aesthetically pleasing, garage door also makes the correct type of functionality and safety on your part a desired feature; relative to all these aesthetic concerns, you want an opener that enables the safe use of the door and the lites. Adjustable force settings or safety sensors on your opener, for example, let you better manage the aesthetic and functional appeal of the door because you can more precisely control how the door or opener operates in general (i.e., the door won’t just fall), let alone safely (and without shutting all the way), with manually controlled force requirements (e.g., versus a car or a truck).
Having windows on your garage door helps to provide natural light to the room, which, in turn, lessens the amount of necessary electricity during the day. Windows can also provide ventilation to garages, keeping them dry and reducing the chance of moisture lock.