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Modern,
Stylish & Sleek
No longer just a functional necessity on a home, the garage door has transformed to be a large and distinct architectural feature that adds curb appeal, style and value to the home.
In many homes, the garage door can represent as much as 40% of the front elevation of the home. Garage door manufacturers have capitalized on this by creating extremely attractive and diverse garage door styles and designs.
There is a national trend toward modern and contemporary style garage doors that compliment many of today’s contemporary style homes. Many of the new homes in San Antonio have a contemporary style including several of this year’s Parade Homes.
“At Dale Sauer Homes we are always looking for what’s new in the market that we can share with our homeowners”, says Debbie Sauer with Dale Sauer Homes. “As we began designing our 2017 Parade of Homes house for the Canyons at Scenic Loop, we knew we wanted to focus on a contemporary modern exterior with the windows and garage doors complementing each other. As we began searching, we discovered the Wayne Dalton 9600 Insulated Steel
Back Garage Door in the Contemporary Panel Design and we fell in love with it! We then opted for the Satin Edge Privacy Glass with the windows in the vertical column position. This design offered flexibility that fit perfectly on a single door and also on the double door. These cutting edge new designs for the garage doors are a great hit! Thank you Wayne Dalton!”
In addition to Wayne Dalton’s 9600 Contemporary Panel Design with vertical windows, they have developed a unique glass door with no visible frame called the Luminous. This one of a kind garage door is striking in appearance and is available with opaque white, opaque black, mirrored gray, mirrored bronze, and translucent black glass.
Brian Box with Ashton Custom Homes stated “At this year’s Parade Home, we chose to use the Clopay Contemporary Modern Steel Garage Doors with frosted windows by Hollywood Crawford to stay consistent with the transitional architectural style
