How To Wood Grain A Garage Door

A professionally faux painted door will actually look better.

How to wood grain a garage door.

Make your garage door look like a real raised panel door not just painting wood grain on it. The newer generation faux wood door looks identical to a real wood door but is cheaper and requires less upkeep compared to a real wood door. You ll be happy to know that garaga offers a steel garage door in american walnut. A more expensive option is to install a faux wood garage door.

If the door has raised panels apply the paint in the direction you prefer for the faux wood grain this way any visible brush strokes add to the grain effect. Glazing the horizontal rails b. How i transformed a plain run of the mill metal garage door in chandler arizo. This was done in 2 steps in 2 days.

However the wood grains on steel do not look realistic. This gives it the appearance of a genuine wood door with the woodgrain effect embossed on the surface of the metal. Our giani wood look kit for garage doors includes all the tools you need to makeover your garage door from start to finish. It is painted in two directions a first in the garage door industry and then fired.

Supplies cost less than 40 00 or we. We ve been dreaming up garage door makeover ideas since we first purchased our home and though we ve been making over just about every square inch of our house our garage door was working and in great condition. It comes with two cans of wood tone base coat two cans of wood grain finish coat a giani paint mitt 2 brush two plastic tarps roller tray 6 roller arm and one cover and two stir sticks. In this video i show you how i took our boring steel garage door and turned it into a wood door using paint and stain.

Zach freeman demonstrates a more refined method of applying faux finish woodgrain to metal garage doors. Paint a cardboard scrap for practice paint several pieces of scrap cardboard in the same base color you plan to use. How to woodgrain garage door part 12 of 18.