I love the look of stained wood doors so much.
Paint garage door to look like wood.
Most neutral colors would work great for this but if you ve got a bright or bold garage door color you may consider painting it neutral before adding the gel stain.
Paint your garage door and your front door to look like real wood with giani wood look paint.
Make your garage door look like a real raised panel door not just painting wood grain on it.
A more expensive option is to install a faux wood garage door.
You may remember last summer s tutorial on how i faux painted my front door to look like it was stained wood with transparent wood grain showing through.
This was done in 2 steps in 2 days.
Part of the process of staining a garage door to look like wood is using brush strokes to allow the base color to come through just a little to give it that woodgrain look.
The only color aspect of the exterior that i am 100 sure of is i like the look of stained wood doors like the wood on these garage door.
A professionally faux painted door will actually look better.
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.
Paint a cardboard scrap for practice paint several pieces of scrap cardboard in the same base color you plan to use.
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.
However the wood grains on steel do not look realistic.