Choosing a garage-door colour and finish

Five surface textures, wood effects and RAL colours, and one finish carried across the house: how to choose a door that looks right in every light.

Garage doors
3 min read
October 2026

Close-up of a golden woodgrain garage-door panel and the joint between two sections — Concept visualisation · woodgrain, close up

A garage door is the largest moving surface of a home¹, so its colour and texture shape how the whole front reads. Choose it with the house, not the brochure, and choose it in your own light.

Start with the house

Look at what the door will sit beside: brick, render, timber cladding, the window frames, the front door. Take your colour from one of them rather than adding a new one. A door that shares its colour with the windows or the front door tends to recede; one that contrasts becomes a feature.

Our windows can wear one colour outside and another inside, and the same finish can carry to the front door, the garage door and the gate².

Five textures

The surface matters as much as the colour. Our sectional doors come in five textures¹:

Sandgrain. A fine, even grain that hides fingerprints and softens reflections. The default on the three sectional systems.
Woodgrain. Timber grain pressed into steel, in Golden Oak, Dark Oak, Nut and Macoré, and in Graphite RAL 7016 for a charred-timber look.
Silkline. A silky, low-sheen surface that lets low sun show the panel lines, in Graphite RAL 7016 and White RAL 9016.
Smoothgrain. The calmest surface, with minimal texture for flush contemporary façades, in Anthracite Quartz, Dark Oak and Golden Oak.
Black Edition. PRIME turns the inside black too, with hinges, rollers and tracks powder-coated RAL 9005.

Raindrops on an anthracite sandgrain garage-door panel, close up — Concept visualisation · anthracite sandgrain in the rain

Colour

Beyond the textures there are standard colours, wood effects and RAL colours. A RAL code names a colour exactly, such as RAL 7016 Anthracite grey or RAL 9005 Jet black, so it can be matched across products³.

Our catalogue lists the finishes for each system: 12 for UniPro, 11 for UniTherm and 5 for PRIME, and 57 for the roller and up-and-over doors¹. In the manufacturer’s range, roller doors also take more than 200 RAL colours by powder coating⁴.

One finish across the house

Home Inclusive brings doors, windows, garage doors and fencing into one coordinated exterior, with 16 signature finishes in four families: HI EARTH, HI STONE, HI STEEL and HI RUBY⁵. They run from soft greens and warm stones to blues and graphites, corals and deep browns⁵.

Finishes depend on the product and its specification, so check the colour options on each product before you commit⁵.

Light changes everything

The same door reads differently two hours apart. Dark finishes drink the evening, oak glows, and white holds the last of the day¹. Look at the door’s wall at the times you see it most: leaving in the morning, and arriving after dark.

A dark sectional garage door on a brick house in warm golden-hour light — Concept visualisation · the same door at golden hour and at blue hour

The same house at blue hour, a line of light glowing across the garage door — Concept visualisation · the same door at golden hour and at blue hour

See a real sample

Screen colours are a starting point: light and screen settings change how a colour looks⁵. We bring physical panel samples to the survey, so you choose on your own house, in your own light¹.

Whatever you choose, keep the coating whole. Wash steel with mild soapy water, rinse off road salt after winter, and touch up chips promptly with the paint the manufacturer recommends⁶.

From the catalogue