If you have a housing plan and you want to create a design for all of the rooms in the house, you should not neglect the garage.

Garage is an important room not only for storage but also for the beautification and the security of the house. When designing it, you have to incorporate the residential garage doors into the planning because it is a crucial part of the room.

Here are the things that you must remember to put in your room design:

• Size of the Garage. When planning for a good garage design, you always need to check your available space. Some garages are placed at a distance from the house so that burglars cannot access the home through them but most houses have built-in garages. Most garage doors today are pre-made. So, before designing the room, make sure that you know the size of the door that will be installed in the garage. A bigger garage would also need a bigger door so that there would be symmetry in your structure from the outside.

• Location of the garage in the house. Most garages in the country are located right below a room where people sleep. This is where incorporating the garage door is important in making the design because the garage door opener will be installed on the ceiling of the garage and it may interfere in terms of noise and vibrations to the people living in the room above. So if you are designing this type of garage, make sure you install a door opener that has been aimed to create lesser vibrations.

• Windows. If you do not want to open holes in your walls for windows but you want natural lighting in the garage, you can incorporate in your design a garage door that already has pre-installed glass panels to serve as windows for the room.

The common type of exterior doors used in most homes across the country is the wooden type. Many use wood because it can easily be turned into a decorative piece in the house. However, steel doors are also becoming popular since these types can offer superior security and function as well.
Unfortunately, many people think that a steel door does not look very attractive and there are limited things that you can do with it in terms of design. To add spice to this type of door, the easiest thing to do is to paint it. Painting a steel door is different from painting a wooden one mainly because of the material and how it reacts with the paint. Here are some tips on how to successfully do the painting.

• Prepare your steel door for the painting process. Remove all accessories like the knobs and clean them separately. With the use of rags, wipe the door using soapy water. Make sure all large debris and dirt will be removed. Let the steel door dry before moving on to the next step.
• If your steel door has windows or some portions that you do not want to be painted, you can line them with masking tape and place a covering like pieces of newspapers to prevent the paint from getting there. You can also lay a big piece of cloth to the surface where you will be painting the door to protect the floor. Also line the door frame with masking tape if you plan to paint the door without unhinging it.
• With the use of sandpaper, sand the door carefully to have a smooth surface. The sanding has to be done evenly. A metal primer must be painted over the newly sanded surface using a paintbrush.
• Once the metal primer has dried, you may now begin painting the door with latex paint, which works best in metal and steel doors. To have an even coat, you can use a roller paintbrush.
• Use a smaller brush to those hard to reach areas.
• Allow the latex to dry and add another coat to the entry doors. Let it dry again before putting back the door knobs and accessories. Remove all masking tapes to see if the paint hasn’t penetrated those areas.

Some people who have not owned a house with garage doors before may not have the right knowledge regarding these fixtures. One of the things that all homeowners with garages must know is getting the correct measurement of their residential garage doors.
Reasons Why You Need to Measure Properly
There are reasons why people should know how to do this job properly.

1. Measuring the garage door will be important when you want to change your door to a new one.
2. Another reason why this is important is because knowing the measurement of the door will also give you the clearance level of your garage. With this information in mind, you will also know what types of vehicles will fit into the door to be stored inside the garage.

As homeowners, you need not to worry since measuring their garage doors does not take a lot of time and effort. All you need to have is a reliable tape measure, a pen and a paper for writing and a stepladder. Once the materials are ready, you may now begin measuring your garage door.

• When measuring the garage door, the secret here is not to measure the current door that you have but you need to measure the size of the opening instead. You need to base your measurements on the opening and not on the door so that your new door will be perfectly fitted to the frame. Since the opening will be measured, homeowners can use their garage door openers to open the fixture fully.
• Grab your tape measure and get the width of the door opening from side to side near the bottom of the door. You might want to ask for a friend’s help with this. Record the numbers in your paper.
• After the width of the bottom, bring the tape measure up near the top of the opening. Measure the width and take note of it. The width of the bottom and top of the opening must be the same. If not, you should have this corrected because the door frame may be slanted.
• With a stepladder, measure the top to bottom length of the opening.
• Do not fail to get the measurement from the ceiling to the top opening. Same as the closet in the sides to the left and right door frames. This will give the homeowners an idea of how much extra space they have in their garage.