Design Your Perfect Garage Door

See a New Garage Door on Your Actual House

Picking a garage door off a sample board is guesswork. The door that looked sharp in the showroom can read completely wrong against your stucco color and your roofline, and you do not find that out until it is installed.

The designer below solves that. Upload a photo of your home, and it renders real doors on your real house so you can see the thing before you buy it. Takes about four minutes. When you land on something you like, save it and send it over, and we will price that exact build.

How the Garage Door Designer Works

Four steps, no account required.

  1. Door size. Tell it how many garage doors your home has and the rough opening size. A standard one-car opening is 8 feet wide by 7 feet tall and a standard two-car is 16 by 7, so if you are not sure, start there.
  2. Home image. Upload a photo of your house taken straight on from the driveway. Daylight, no cars in the frame, whole garage opening visible. This is the step that determines how useful the result is.
  3. Design the door. Cycle through styles, panel designs, colors, window layouts and decorative hardware. Every combination renders on your photo.
  4. Review and save. Save the design and send it to us.

If you would rather see finished work than renderings, our garage door gallery has real installs on real Valley homes.

How to Measure Your Garage Door Opening

You do not need exact measurements to use the designer, but you will need them for a real quote. Measure the opening itself, not the door.

  • Width. Measure the finished opening from side jamb to side jamb at the widest point.
  • Height. Measure from the floor to the top of the finished opening.
  • Sideroom. The space from each side of the opening to the nearest wall. You need roughly 3.75 inches per side for standard track.
  • Headroom. Distance from the top of the opening to the ceiling or the lowest obstruction. Standard torsion setups want about 12 inches; there are low-headroom kits if you have less.
  • Backroom. Depth from the opening back into the garage. Plan on the door height plus about 18 inches.

Round down, not up, and write the numbers in feet and inches. If your garage is unusual, an addition, a low ceiling, a post in the wrong place, tell us and we will measure it ourselves at no charge.

Picking a Style That Actually Fits Your Home

A few things we have learned doing this across the Valley for over a decade.

Match the architecture, not the trend. Carriage house styling looks right on Spanish, ranch and territorial homes, which is most of Phoenix. Flush and modern panels look right on newer contemporary builds and look out of place on a 1980s tile-roof ranch.

Colors read lighter outside. Full desert sun washes everything out. A color that looks safely mid-tone on a screen will read a shade or two lighter on your house at 2pm in July.

Windows are the biggest visual change and the biggest cost jump. A top row of windows transforms a flat door. Decide early, because it affects the price meaningfully.

Think about heat, not just looks. If living space shares a wall or ceiling with the garage, an insulated door is worth more to you than an upgraded panel design. Details are on our garage door materials page, and the style breakdown is under garage door styles.

What Happens After You Save Your Design

Send us the saved design and we quote that exact configuration, including whatever the opening actually needs behind the door. That last part matters: a heavier insulated door often needs springs sized to the new weight, and sometimes an opener that can lift it, so we would rather find that now than on installation day.

From there it is a straightforward garage door installation: we tear out the old door and hardware, install the new one, haul everything away, and cycle it until it is balanced. If the new door needs a new opener we handle opener installation in the same visit.

Ready when you are. Request a quote, check current offers, or browse the brands we install. We cover Phoenix, Scottsdale, Peoria and the rest of Maricopa County.