5 Garage Paint Ideas to Bring out Your Home’s Best Look

A finished garage can raise your home’s value. It can create an extension of your home beyond your square footage. It’s important to choose wisely to make your garage feel like more than an afterthought. Here are 5 garage paint ideas to bring out your home’s best look.

Compliments

Your garage makeover might be as simple as color on the walls and as much as a complete renovation. Either way, plan out your finished product so it doesn’t look haphazard and thrown together. Choose any wall coverings beyond paint, floor and accessories you’ll want to include in the room.

Paneling, shelving and floors should be taken into account for color selection. For the renovation, begin at the top of the room. Do any ceiling and wall work before you head to the floor. This will save you paint spills on a new epoxy floor.

This planning process will help you think about your color planning as well. First pick a color you want to be the main color of the room. Next choose an accent and trim color that go with it. Finally, look at flooring that will compliment your newly chosen color scheme.

Be creative

It’s important to make a cohesive look for your garage, but that does not mean it needs to be boring. If you intend to use your garage to store a vehicle, use that as an inspiration for the room. Count it as an accessory color, if not a main one. Clearly you liked it enough to purchase a car in it. Other ways to include a color are:

Bright cabinets
Pick strong colors for the garage doors
Start with the floor colors and work your way up to plan

Walls and ceiling

Most garages have limited window, but a garage door. You’ll want to consider natural versus interior lighting. The paint you choose will look different in different times of day and different light sources. It’s a good idea to paint a poster board with the color you potentially want to test it. Put it in the space and have a look at it during different times of day, in different lights and against different walls.

Floor

You have several options when it comes to floors in your garage. Innovations in the area of durable flooring mean you can have so much more than bare concrete. Masonry, epoxy or latex paint are all viable options for the floor, but they will need to be reapplied every couple of years dependent on the traffic in the room. There are more durable floor coatings engineered for garages. They provide a more permanent solution, but will cost you a bit more initially. PVC floor tiles provide the most permanent solution on garage floors.

Garage doors

The final piece of your garage makeover is the garage door. Picking a color that matches both the interior color scheme and your exterior of your home. Your garage door can account for ⅓ of your home’s facade. Because of this, there are a few items to take into consideration.

*Front doors should always be the focal point, so garage doors shouldn’t take away from that.
*Avoid primary colors
*Take your home’s features like brick, shutters, etc. outside

Summary:

Painting Garage Doors can boost the value of your home. However, when it comes to painting your garage door, it’s best to choose a color that will improve the look of your home for you and curb appeal. When choosing a color for your garage door, most people try to complement the color of the exterior of the home. Usually, trim, paneling, shelving, and even flooring is taken into account by what the garage door color could be. It’s important when you are choosing a color, you see the sample color under different lights, especially natural light, where your garage door is exposed with the most. In addition to painting garage doors, coating the concrete flooring in your garage can also boost home value. The most common concrete coating is an epoxy finish. However, you can choose from latex, resin, PVC tiles, and masonry as well. Be creative, you don’t have to do something boring to improve the look of your garage door.

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