Choose the right stain color.
Diy faux wood garage doors.
Last summer when we completed our kitchen refresh i kept hoping to find an old vintage wood paned door we could use.
We are still in diy home improvement mode so we are painting paula s garage doors live on hometalk.
If you know anything about wood doors they re both pricey and hard to come by in specific sizes.
So off i went to create a faux wood garage door.
Luckily our custom garage door we chose a few years ago already had a faux wood grain inlaid to the panels.
Sep 11 2020 explore jen bartlett s board faux wood garage door on pinterest.
My first problem was that i could probably build doors just fine but there is brick on both sides of my garage door opening.
I ll show you how.
Even so the posts were only like five bucks apiece so you could use them to help plumb in a not so vertical opening or for just.
April 16 2020 diy.
Here s what you ll need.
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Tips for a diy garage door makeover and how to gel stain a garage door to look like wood.
So with some paint i went to work and made our garage door look like this want to give this faux wood garage door a try.
I ve wanted to switch out our garage door in our kitchen for years.
If you have wood or metal covered wood around your garage door opening then you could optionally skip ahead to actually building the door.
Make your neighbors jealous and transform your garage door with paint.
Creating a faux wood garage door.
A professionally faux painted door will actually look better.
We chose this gel stain in mahogany.
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Clean your garage door first.
This guy does a really thorough tutorial on youtube for a garage door in scottsdale az.
This is a bit more advanced and will take a little longer but i think the project turned out great.
Doors doors doors.
A more expensive option is to install a faux wood garage door.
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.
Transform your garage door to a gorgeous faux wood door with this easy gel stain diy garage door makeover.