How To Paint Faux Garage Door Windows

Here is the before photo our boring garage door has been this way since we moved in 8 years ago.

How to paint faux garage door windows. Painting faux windows on a garage door. The faux windows look awesome. Be careful not to tighten the screws too much or you ll crack the plexiglass. And luckily for us the white is the most affordable color option.

You can take your boring old unattractive builder grade door to a work of art just by following a few steps. I took magnetic vent covers and cut 6 panes of glass from them for each of the 8 top panels on the 2 garage doors and then spray painted them with a shiny dark charcoal colour. All the pics i ve seen elsewhere are of white or cream color doors. We were really impressed with these faux garage doors windows.

I did not want to damage my steel garage doors so i used magnetic window panes. Attach the faux garage door windows to garage door panel with the stainless steel screws. Attaching the faux windows to the garage door panels is pretty straight forward. Then i put them in place.

Almond sandstone and white. Amazon sells a set of two windows per kit in three different color options. Tighten just enough to attach the windows to the garage doors. I am so excited to share this garage door makeover that seriously anyone can do.

You can take your boring old unattractive builder grade door to a work of art just by following a few steps. If we paint the faux windows do you think it will look ok if the cross joints of the windows are green or should they be left cream colored. A couple weeks ago i finally spent some time putting my plan into action and created some faux windows to our garage door. Next you ll mark the pilot hole spots.

A year or so ago i read a post from melissa at silhouette school how she used vinyl to update her garage doors. I used a level and drew a straight line across the garage door as a guide. We are going to paint our currently cream colored garage doors moss sage green.