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13 Door Design and Installation Tips
From interior doors to garage doors, here are 13 design and installation solutions to help you create the perfect entrance.
Dress Up a Garage Door with Insulated Carriage Doors
These custom doors add energy efficiency and style.
How to Fix Peeling Garage Doors
Q: I need some advice on refinishing an overhead garage door. I built the door using plywood for the panels and clear pine for the stiles and rails. Each horizontal…
Designing Doors for Large Openings
Custom sliding, swinging, and overhead doors reinforce a house's architectural style and invite the outdoors in.
Choosing Garage Doors
Style is on the upswing with improvements that truly fool the eye.
Cutting brick for a door
Q: I want to move a 16-ft. garage door to a different wall in my one-story hip-roof garage. The outside covering is brick; the inside is conventional 2x4 wood framing. How…
Building Custom Carriage-House Doors
Sandwich-style construction offers strength and design flexibility without fussy joinery work, and is good for all sorts of doors—not just garage doors.
Overhead Garage Doors
They're the largest and most visible moving parts of your house, but with all the options out there, don't leave the choice up to someone else.
Quieting garage doors
Q: We live in a condominium and have a garage-door noise problem. Our bedroom is immediately above the neighbor’s garage. When our neighbor arrives home late at night and opens the…
Framing for Garage Doors
Think about the door before you pour.

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