Do you want some ideas to improve the curb appeal of your 1950s or 1960s house? Here are some ideas from a seven-page brochure of mid century garage door designs from Raymore Manufacturing Company, Dixon, Illinois. Let’s take a look….
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Everyone has always gone nuts over my single little garage door post — showing colorful vintage Crawford garage doors. So, I’ve been on the lookout for more vintage marketing materials that could offer some more ideas if you want to update your garage door.
This brochure is interesting, I think, because while it’s short, it show that how playing around with wood molding makes the number of possible designs are almost infinite. And I believe it — I certainly see tremendous variety when I am out and about in mid century subdivisions.
Look at some of these designs and you can see, that you do not necessarily need to get a new garage door to update to a snazzier mid century look. If you are handy – or have a good carpenter — you can take your lead from these ideas and add molding directly onto your garage door, then paint it in either a single- or two-color design. Carry the design motif over to your front door or window boxes, too — designs that repeat create harmony.
Want more ideas? Click here for a story I wrote with 17 ideas to improve the curb appeal of your 1950s or 1960s house?
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Hippie decor & more 1960s interior design ideas — 15 pages of rooms from 1969 
Retro front doors for your 40s, 50s or 60s ranch house — from Crestview Doors 
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The garage door on my 1955 Houston home is a blank slate. This post is definitely one I’ll keep in mind.
Flickr user Repowers has some great shots of Mid-Century garages on his site as well…
http://www.flickr.com/photos/repowers/tags/garage/
Our garage door was replaced before we bought the house with a not-very-nice metal one. I think it would be pretty expensive to replace again, but I wonder if it’s possible to add molding or windows to the metal…I suspect it would be difficult, at best.
Still, if we ever do replace it with wood, this post is a great place to start!
There’s a garage door in our city which is marked with “his” and “hers” in script. Pretty fantastic and very 50s!
oooh, can you get us a photo, jamie?
Dog gone! I didn’t think about the door being wood! Now I’ll have to get a wood door together, except my garage door is a big one – not the usual 16-footer.
Also, next spring, I’m thinking of building a cupola for the house and garage. I’ll stick a weathervane of one of them….maybe the house? I’ve still retained my aluminum TV antenna too!