Carriage House Door Design Options
Carriage House has manufactured custom wood doors for over 30 years. Through its extensive network of dealers, homeowners, architects, and builders, it produces the industry’s finest carriage doors, ensuring each design is the perfect fit to enhance the beauty and value of your home, with the modern conveniences of overhead sectionals and electronic openers. Carriage House even has doors wind load tested and certified for coastal areas with higher humidity.
Every Carriage House garage door is unique. Choose from templates of traditional designs and specific period styles or create a design that’s yours alone. You can select from vertical grain clear western red cedar, tight knot incense cedar, mahogany, vertical grain Douglas fir, or clear heart redwood — when you choose a wooden door. Customize further with finishes and decorative hardware — down to the smallest detail.
Decorative Hardware for Every Style Door
Whether you choose a European, or American country home, or classic cottage style for your wooden or steel carriage doors, Carriage House Door has the exact hardware to match your design.
Choose from seven decorative styles: Barcelona, Cambridge, Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Rhode Island, and Virginia. These beautifully forged pieces are from the Carriage House Collection of hardware. Our experienced team at ADS Automatic Door Specialists will also procure decorative hardware from alternate sources if requested to match the specs of a custom job.
Wood Garage Doors in San Diego
Each overhead garage door in our Carriage House collection matches the timeless beauty, authenticity, and quality of a carriage door constructed a century ago yet operates with the latest technology.
Facing: Your choice of the following:
- 1/2- or 5/8-inch medium-density overlay plywood (for paint-grade doors only).
- 3/8- or 5/8-inch Breckenridge plywood siding (for paint or stain grade doors).
- 1/2-inch marine mahogany plywood (for paint or stain grade).
- Vertical grain western red cedar, incense cedar, fir, or any other available materials as specified.
Wire-brush option is available on all doors to produce a weathered effect.
Trim/Overlay: Your choice of the following:
- Stain Grade: Vertical grain clear western red cedar (standard), STK incense cedar, vertical grain Douglas fir, clear heart redwood, mahogany, bonded to the facing with exterior adhesive and galvanized finish nails.
- The concealed side of the trim is back cut to prevent twisting and warping.
The following guidelines show the number of sections for door heights of up to fourteen feet:
- Up to 8’0″: 3 sections
- From 8’0″ to 10′: 4 sections
- From 10′ to 12′: 5 sections
- From 12′ to 14′ — 6 sections
Other Wood Styles
Carriage House Door Co. is pleased to add beautiful, reclaimed boards to our extensive collection of woods. Rustic boards are salvaged from old barns and have aged gracefully for over 100 years. They are handcrafted following your specifications into richly textured rustic-styled garage doors. Our vintage boards are available in three colors: Cordovan, Sienna, and Umber.
- Shou Sugi Ban: Ancient Japanese technique of expertly charring board siding, then cleaning and sealing with natural oil.
- Sapele Mahogany: Beautiful, durable hardwood used in fine cabinetry, flooring, and paneling.
- Reclaimed Redwood: Taken from old bridges, barns, and other structures and refinished to bring out rich, striking grain and color.
- Vertical Grain Western Red Cedar: A straight-grain wood with an outstanding weight-to-strength ratio.
- Burmese Teak: Prized for golden color, resistance to weathering, and distinctive grain.
- Ipe: Extremely dense with fine grain, durable
- Black Walnut: Immensely popular classic American hardwood with outstanding dimensional stability.
