Grand Harbor garage doors

Grand Harbor is the plainer-spoken member of the carriage house group. It pairs a steel door with a painted composite overlay, so the crossbuck and rail pattern that defines the style is there in a solid paint finish rather than a wood grain. From the street it reads as hinged doors. On the track it rolls up overhead like any sectional. Clopay points it at buyers for whom cost is the deciding factor, which makes it the most direct route to a carriage house look without paying for a stained wood-look finish. It is the straightforward choice: the shape, the proportions and the swing-door look are all there, and the savings come from skipping the wood-look finish.

The painted finish is a good match for a house with painted trim. Think of a white farmhouse, a coastal-style cottage or a colonial where a stained wood door would feel out of place. Painted carriage doors also look right on houses with painted brick or siding in a single tone, where the door becomes part of the same palette. If your house has natural wood details elsewhere, a stained overlay door would match them better, and Canyon Ridge is the Clopay collection to look at for that. Because the pattern is crisp and the finish is solid, the door looks best when it is kept clean. Painted steel and composite are far easier to keep up than a stained wood door, and that is the main reason people choose this over wood.

Clopay lists insulated and non-insulated versions. The insulated build suits an attached garage, a garage with a room above it, or any door that takes the afternoon sun through a Triangle summer. The non-insulated version is the lower-cost route for a detached garage. The R-value depends on the construction, and we state the figure for the one you choose in the quote, so you know what you are buying.

Windows are an option and normally sit in a row across the top section, in layouts that follow the overlay pattern. Colors are painted finishes from Clopay's sample range, and since paint is the point of this door, getting the shade right against your trim is the main decision. We bring color samples to hold up against the house, because a white on a screen and a white on your siding are rarely the same.

This collection is built to order, so we quote it per door after measuring, not from a list. Among the carriage house doors Clopay offers, expect it toward the lower end on cost, below the wood-look composite lines and well below real wood. Coachman is the step up if you want a richer overlay.

The free consultation is where we measure, bring overlay and color samples and give you a firm installed price before anything is scheduled.