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  • The popular carriage house styleIncrease the Curb Appeal of Your Homes with a Unique Garage Door
  • ebuild (5/8/2007)
  • Across the country, homeowners and homebuilders are increasingly eyeing the garage door as a way to personalize homes. Riding this interest in sprucing up the garage door are carriage house style garage doors, adding a touch of old-world charm to today's home. Overhead Door offers homebuilders and consumers a wide array of designs in the popular carriage house style that can fit any budget. The garage door is the single largest mechanical device in the home and takes up most of a home's front elevation, so a unique garage door can add a great deal of curb appeal to a home. Increasing the curb appeal of a home also increases its value and can make a home more appealing to prospective buyers.
  • One of the Windstorm Collection Protect Your Home from Hurricanes and High Winds
  • ebuild (5/8/2007)
  • With many homeowners still recovering from the devastation of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, it has become more apparent than ever that homeowners should take every precaution to protect their homes from high wind destruction. High winds create pressure fluctuations which blow a garage door in or out. Since the garage door is the largest point of entry into the home, it is imperative that homeowners take steps to reinforce their garage doors and make sure it meets proper windload codes. Windload refers to the forces or pressures that are exerted on a structure and the components that make up the structure. According to the Federal Alliance for Safe Homes, garage doors are particularly vulnerable to high winds because they take up so much of the front of a home and are made of lightweight material.
  • The new Eastman Estate has authentic heritage style with a distinctive modern approach.Garaga launches its new vintage country-style door: The Eastman Estate
  • ebuild (3/2/2007)
  • Garaga is proud to announce the launch of the Eastman Estate, the first carriage house style steel door with overlays for the Canadian garage door industry. The Eastman Estate completes the Townships Collection along with the North Hatley. The aesthetics of this new garage door recreates the country charm appeal.
  • Courtyard CollectionOverhead Door's Residential Style
  • ebuild (2/27/2007)
  • The Overhead Door Corporation was founded in 1921 with the invention of the upward-lifting door, better known as 'the garage door'. Since that time, Overhead Door has lead the way through product, service and quality innovation and a variation on its very own original door that the company introduced over 85 years ago.
  • Grand Harbor Collection Two-Inch Thick, Dent-Resistant 24-Gauge Steel Garage Doors
  • BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (1/17/2007)
  • Clopay Building Products. The Grand Harbor collection of garage doors offers Old World, carriage-house charm in a low-maintenance steel and composite format. Two-inch-thick, dent-resistant 24-gauge steel doors feature embossed wood grain textures. A UV-resistant composite overlay creates the carriage house effect. Doors are available in single-layer construction or a two-layer model with 1-5/8-inch polystyrene insulation. Several sizes, window options, and hardware choices are available. 800-225-6729.
  • Amarr Garage DoorsDecraGlass Garage Door Windows
  • BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (1/16/2007)
  • Amarr Garage Doors. The DecraGlass line of garage door windows has been expanded with six new designs that are inspired by entry door windows. Allegro, Harvest, Heartland, Metro, Tempo, and Wichita are available in short- and long-panel styles and feature multiple design processes such as printing, stained resin, and beveled V-grooves. Colors include red, yellow, blue, and green. 800-503-3667.
  • ebuild Guide to Garage Doors Specifications
  • (12/11/2006)
  • Garage doors are made from a number of different materials, which have implications for appearance, weatherability and maintenance requirements. There are a number of different styles of garage doors, and most manufacturers offer optional glass inserts for decorative enhancement.
  • French Door-Style Garage Doors
  • BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (12/7/2006)
  • Designed to work like conventional roll-up sectional garage doors, FrenchPorte garage doors offer the appearance of French doors with aluminum frames and translucent frosted polycarbonate panes. Available in single- and double-door applications. 866-545-4561.

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