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It was time to add some garage curb appeal to our new pole barn home. In this process post, we’ve added our steel siding, steel roofing, painted our garage doors with exterior paint, added light fixtures, and more. Let me show you!
*This post is sponsored by The Home Depot. All opinions, images, and words are my own.
I am learning that even the mere thought of curb appeal on a new home build can be extremely overwhelming. We are pretty much staring at piles of dirt here. But we are taking it one baby step at a time, starting with the front of our garage exterior. I’d love to show you what we have done so far and share some exterior garage design ideas with you.
It is such a blessing for me to have this post and video sponsored by The Home Depot, as part of their 2019 Paint Program. We have definitely used paint for this project to bring in some unique color to our garage doors. I will share all those details with you as well as tell you about paint selection tools and trends that make choosing a color much easier for what is sometimes a very overwhelming job.
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There are a couple of reasons why we are turning our focus on the exterior of the home.
- Winter is coming
- The front of our detached garage in particular is the first thing you pull up to and see from the road. Perhaps not ideal, but was the best solution for this spot of land.
Even if it is just a garage, I hope to make it a lovely view.
A little about our siding and roofing. We opted for steel roofing and steel siding for their longevity and low maintenance features. This white siding is bent and formed into a vertical batten treatment, which I find to be lovely and classic.
The steel roofing is in a shade combining blue/green and gray and changes tones drastically throughout the day and according to the weather. It is so fun to watch.
If you want to hear more about our siding and roofing, let me know and I can do a more detailed post if there is any interest.
Garage Exterior Before
While things slowly progressed on our house this garage front sat unfinished for way too long, due to the rest of our delivery being greatly delayed, and contractors not showing up when they say they will – a constant problem that we seem to be facing as we assume the role of the general contractors for our own home.
But from my chats with other home builders, this tends to be a common problem. My husband eventually hired some buddies to help him get it done himself. We also added some trim around the garage door stalls and prepped for the concrete driveway.
Garage Doors
Let me tell you a bit about my garage door style decision. My husband was shocked to silence when I picked one of the most affordable, basic garage door styles. We constantly joke that usually what I want is hard to find, hard to get, and expensive. We are learning a lot of compromising skills.
We opted to try out a very basic flush panel garage door style. No windows, no custom carriage house details, just very very basic.
I felt with a little bit of paint and ingenuity, we could make this door style look refined, minimalistic, and be slightly different from every other standard garage door that you often see in new homes.
Paint Product
Let’s discuss the paint product we used. We selected this Behr Ultra Exterior Paint in a Satin finish – with help from my little shoppers.
I choose this one specifically because it mentioned many exterior applications including garage doors.
We’ve had a great experience with Behr Exterior paints in the past, so I didn’t hesitate to use it again.
Garage Door Color
When the challenge came from Home Depot to create a space using one of Behr’s 2020 color trends from their curated palette, I was delighted to see the color “LIGHT DRIZZLE”, which is lovely shade of soft blue/gray. Around my parts, we call this color tone, “TIDBITS blue”.
It’s one of my favorites and I knew it would be fun to play with on our garage exterior, and be a perfect companion to the white on the house and the green in nature . . . which we should have more of once we landscape in the Spring.
I played around with some different tints of this color and ended up opting for the full tint.
The Home Depot Online Interactive Paint Tools
I want to be sure you know about the digital tools Home Depot now has to help you select colors for your home.
They have created a fun app called ProjectColor™ where you can try out paint colors in spaces and even take images of your own space to digitally render how that will look in your home.
You can color match from images you take or find online, as well as source trending colors you might find on Pinterest or elsewhere.
It’s really an incredible tool and really fun to play with. Even my kids enjoy it!
I’ll leave 3 helpful links to:
1 – Read all about the Project Color app
2 – A link to the App available in your App Store
3 – A link to The Home Depot page where you can explore colors and check out their interactive online tools to explore your color choices.
Paint Process
After I purchased the paint and supplies from The Home Depot, we got all prepped to paint the garage doors and the entry door.
We pulled out our airless paint sprayer to make the job very easy. It also helped that the Behr paint we selected was a paint and primer in one.
Decor
Once the doors and trim were painted and installed – then my fun part began – decorating.
We installed light fixtures around the doors.
We installed some champagne bronze hardware to add a special detail to our otherwise basic doors.
Then I took advantage of some off-season sales on some evergreen plants, which we will keep potted through the winter and plant in the Spring. They would look a lot better set on concrete – but I couldn’t help myself from trying to make it look a little homey now.
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Reveal
I’d love to know what you think about our new and improved garage curb appeal design details. Let’s chat in the comments below! It’s so rewarding to check this project off our list and shift our focus to the interior of the home and get it ready for us to move in. It won’t be “done” for a long time yet, but we are trying to get a bathroom, most of a kitchen, and flooring down so we can move in and take our time on the rest.
If you haven’t already seen my previous posts about our home-building adventures, be sure to read all about our pole barn home and why we are building it this way. You might also be interested to watch our plans for dreaming our 25 acres of property, that we have fallen in love with and can’t wait to call it home.
I’m also anxious to add my garage storage cabinets to the inside of this space! So glad we made those in our rental home so we had them ready for this home.
Thank you so much for watching and reading. Be sure to follow me along to watch our home come together and for more inspiration for do-it-yourself living.
When it comes to painting your front door, there are a million colors to choose from but only one real option for the finish. Semigloss paint gives you a smoother surface than lower-sheen finishes and has a degree of shine, providing a visual contrast 🙂
Thank you so much for this! I’m hoping to do something very similar. How did you get the batten look with metal siding? I definitely want metal for the longevity but love the board & batten style. Congrats on your beautiful garage!
What is your source for your garage doors?
Your building is beautiful. All of the materials used to build my motorcycle garage were purchased from Home Depot. It is insulated, has a through-the-wall air conditioner/heater so I can keep my Harley clean while being comfortable.
Okay … late to this party, but I have to let you know that I. Love. Your. Garage. Front!!! Seriously!! The colors are so appealing. And, if it takes a couple of potted evergreens on gravel to make your heart happy, then so be it. I think they look great there.
Oh, and contractors?! You can’t live with or without them. :/
Yep you can’t underestimate the importance of curb appeal. It’s amazing the difference a few small changes and a lick of paint will do! Thanks for posting.
Beautiful…everything. really can’t wait to see your home!!
Thank you Jean! I can’t wait to be in it!
Beautiful! Would love to hear about the siding and roofing information you talked about sharing. We are planning to build a metal house. It looks amazing! Thank you!
Thank you Kelly! I’ll plan another post on the steel. We love how it turned out, but wish we would have picked a different company. The one we found was a nightmare and held us up big time. But the looks is so cool!
What company/style of steel did you go with?
Did you ever post info on your siding and roofing material and manufacturers, colors? Thank you! Also paint finish, if applicable!
Where can I find the information posted on the metal siding and roofing colors you used?
Great job! Always look forward to seeing your progress. Good call for Home Depot to use your blog to advertise. You will do them a great service to see how customers needing affordability and yet ideas that are so creative …..good team. Hope you can get in before winter hits you hard. Thank you for sharing such innovative ideas!
Thank you so much! It is such an honor for me to collaborate with the Home Depot. I feel like we live there lately! Definitely there more than the grocery store these days. We are sure hoping the snow holds off a bit longer, as it will make things more difficult. 3 more weeks, if all goes well! Send prayers! Hugs!
Is that a spigot to the left of your “man door”?
Yes! Good eye! We have warm and cool water, incase we ever need it. It will be so handy.
I love the color and style and lights, it is all so exciting and beautiful.
Thank you Marlene! So very exciting for us too!
It’s beautiful!
Thank you DeAnna!
Beautiful color! Wow that looks amazing! Love the batten style walls too. Yay for progress!!!
Hugs, Cecilia
Thank you Cecilia dear! I wasn’t 100% sure on the batten walls, but once they went up I was giddy. It looks so cool! Thank you for following along and being the BEST comment-or! Hugs!
Looking forward to the completion , you have such excellent taste. I know it will be Absolutely GORGEOUS . You actually take lemons and make lemonade . God bless !
You and me both!! Haha! I do pride myself in my lemonade 😉 . HA! Thank you so very much for your compliments. It helps me have so much more confidence in my decisions. Hugs!
How can a garage be so pretty?? Yet, you did it again. I love everything you post. Thank you.
Haha! It had to be since it pretty much is the first thing you see! Thank you so much for following along on my posts. It means so much to me!
I really like the look of the garage doors and the paint color is very pretty.
Every finished project must be such a joy for you.
Yes, Sue – it so is! I love to look at the pics to see how amazing far we have come. Building this ourselves has been no small feat and we are so proud! My hubs is incredible to take it on! Thank you so very much for your support and I’m so glad to hear you like the paint color.
Marilyn, I was thinking the same thing 😆. I tried to zoom in on it. Could it be a spigot? Enjoying this adventure with you so much. Can’t wait for the next “ post of progress “. I know it’s hard work but still looks like fun.
Such an eye for detail you have!! ha! Yes, it is a warm and cold water spigot. Running through the sprinklers will be so warm 😉 . Thank you so much for following us along on this adventure Susan! I sure appreciate your support.
Love it – I never would have considered this color combo for a garage but it works and looks great.
What is hanging on the exterior wall to the left of the door below the sconce above the plant?
I was wondering the same thing. I scrolled back up and expanded the pic. It looks to be an outdoor faucet, both hot and cold. What a fantastic design and a great idea.
Yes, the color combo is quite unique! We had a light snowfall the other day and it looked so perfectly winter wonderland dreamy! Ah, and good eye. It is a water spigot for cold and hot water. It will be so awesome to have right there!