1950s Garage Door Styles

The 1950 s and 1960 s crawford doors were generally of high quality.
1950s garage door styles. You ve taken steps to improve your home so it meets your unique style but what about your garage door. See more ideas about garage doors garage house exterior. Jun 17 2014 pre 50 s garage attached or detached. By the 1950s of course many interior and even exterior doors had lost all architectural relief and were a single plane of wood either solid and intercut with decorative glazing or for many types of interior doors with a hollow core.
Move forward or. One broke and it was decided to replace the torsion springs with extension springs. Garages aren t the most exciting part of a home. Though early garage door hardware from hangers to locks was primarily practical exposed hinge leafs and handles often carried some of the style motifs of their time.
The canopy style door sits parallel to the garage ceiling and extends past the front of the house when the door is open. Here are some ideas from a seven page brochure of mid century garage door designs from raynor manufacturing company dixon illinois. Our massive gallery of garage door designs includes pictures of many styles of nice garages and garage doors. Doors hung this way can be quite massive and yet are easy to operate in all kinds of weather manually or with a remote.
Aug 12 2012 do you want some ideas to improve the curb appeal of your 1950s or 1960s house. Bifold illustration by jason lee. Your garage door is an important part of the exterior of your home with the potential to improve curb appeal and show off your personal style especially with so many different types of garage doors available to consumers today. Track length is about twice the door width.
Residential garage door styles. Working with the 1950s era architect s original drawings mosby building arts created a new garage that repeated the style of the home from roof slope to brick color. Like barn doors these hang from rollers that ride along a track at the top of the opening. Today many period garage door manufacturers offer decorative as well as functional door hardware and there are hardware manufacturers that can supply specialized hardware.
It is still in good condition. It once had torsion springs. I have such a door in the house i live in. Tilt up up and over retractable garage doors.
Similar to the tilt up canopy design the tilt up retractable garage doors lift up and into the garage. Let s take a look to view the gallery click on the first thumbnail. A favorite for more utilitarian areas the five panel door is composed of horizontal panels top to bottom. This is the least weathertight garage door.
The house was built in 1954 and i believe that the garage door is probably the original.