What Color Garage Door Goes Best With Red Brick

Picking the color of your garage doors is one of the most important decisions you’ll make when designing a home. Especially if that home has red brick. Every aspect of the home needs to compliment the brick. So what color garage door goes best with red brick?

It’s a great question and one we’re asked all the time. Red brick siding is very popular in NJ and most homes include a garage. The color you choose has to be just right. The perfect color garage doors will boost your curb appeal while the wrong color will detract from the home. And choosing the wrong color is a mistake you don’t want to make in a crowded real estate market. There are a bunch of elements that help dictate curb appeal. And your garage door color is no exception. They should complement your home’s architecture and work within the homes color scheme. It’s an often overlooked yet very important part of the homes exterior, especially if you’ve got a red brick house. The door’s material and style are both important too, but not nearly as much as the color.

Although you want the garage doors to add beauty to your home, you don’t want them drawing attention away from the brick work. So choosing the perfect color is a tough decision to make. But hopefully we can help.

If your wondering what color to paint your garage doors on your brick house, you’ve come to the right place? Ahead we’ll discuss some of the best garage door colors for a brick house with tips and a bunch of great pictures.

Beautiful red brick home with light tan garage doors and matching trim. Black front door and shutters.

Best Garage Door Colors For a Red Brick House?

Before we start talking about the best garage door colors for a brick house it’s important to spend a little time learning about some basic color theory. Applying good color theory is important whenever you’ve got a bunch of colors that all have to look good together. It would be much simpler if all you had to do was match the garage doors to the brick. But in this case you’ve got all your other house colors to consider as well. Understanding color theory will help you with this.

Harmonious Garage Door Colors

Harmonious colors are also referred to as analogous colors. These are colors positioned next to each other on the color wheel. Analogous color schemes are often found in nature, match well with one another and create a harmonious design.

Few bricks are completely one color. Red bricks are generally made up of multiple shades of reds, browns, and tans. Often times red bricks have flecks of other colors like blue and even shades of purple.

For a harmonious color scheme, pick a garage door color that blends well with the colors found in your brick. Harmonious garage doors tend to blend in with the rest of the home’s colors which draws more attention to other elements like the front door or some other architectural feature.

Harmonious garage doors are often neutral colors that not only go well with the colors found in the red brick but also the siding and other elements.

Make sure to add in some contrast when choosing an analogous color scheme.

For a subtle look, choose a pale shade of one of these colors for the doors and paint the trim in a slightly darker shade. However, if you want to try something bold, use the darker shade of the same color for the doors and a lighter shade for the trim.

Contrasting Garage Door Colors

Two colors from opposite sides of the color wheel are called contrasting colors. These are also known as complementary or opposite colors. For example, red is from the warm half of the color wheel and blue is from the cool half. These are considered to be contrasting colors.

Take a look at the colors found in your red brick and select a contrasting color for the garage doors.

Separate the garage door color from the red brick by painting your trim a neutral color. White trim looks great no matter what color garage door or red brick you have. It offsets the house colors, creating a break between different colors on the home. A shiny finish also contrasts with the brick’s rustic appearance if you select a glossy white paint.

Red brick custom home with stone veneer. Tan garage doors with matching trim. Black front door and shutters.

How to Select the Best Garage Door Color for Your Brick House?

Answering this questions is where having an understanding of basic color theory will help. There are two basic things you have to consider when picking out a color for your garage door that goes with red brick. First is, do you want your garage doors to blend in with the red brick or do you want them to stand out. This is where an understanding of harmonious and contrasting color theory comes in handy.

Second is the overall color scheme of the rest of the home and the specific colors used. The same basic question as above has to be answered again. Do you want your garage door color to match the color scheme of your home and blend in or contrast it and stand out?

Before you start picking specific colors you need to answer some of these general questions first.

How To Make Your Garage Door Color And Brick Blend In?

The color you choose for your garage doors will determine if the doors stand out or blend in with your brick. There are plenty of reasons why you’d want your garage doors to blend in. Here are just a few:

• You want something else on the house to stand out. Maybe you have some unique architectural features you want to highlight, beautiful landscaping or a fantastic front door.
• You don’t want people focusing on your garage door because it draws attention away from other features you’d rather highlight.
• Your garage doors are old and you don’t want to replace them right now.
• Your house already has enough focal points. If you’ve already got landscaping, shutters, trim and architectural features along with red brick, painting your garage doors a bold, eye catching color might make the home look too busy. Just making sure the garage door colors match the brick is more than enough.
• You want your home to look a little bigger than it actually is. If you have an attached garage, painting it with a harmonious color can make it look a little bigger. Without bold color variations that draw the eye, you tend to see the house as one solid mass, which can appear larger than if you focused on individual elements.

Of course, if you’re spending a bundle installing new garage doors, you may not want them blend in with the rest of the house. If you’ve got beautiful garage doors that are worthy of all the attention, painting them a contrasting color that’ll make them stand out might be the better way to go.

How To Make Your Garage Door Color And Brick Stand Out?

It’s not that hard to pick a garage door color that’ll stand out from your red brick. The problem is picking one that stands out and looks great at the same time. A harmonious color scheme isn’t for everyone and the garage doors are a good place to add some contrast. There are lots of reasons for choosing a contrasting garage door color. Here are just a few:

• The garage doors are far enough from the rest of the home that a contrasting color won’t detract from the look of the house.
• You’ve got some nice architectural details on the garage that are worth highlighting.
• Your garage doors are brand new or have a great style that flows well with the rest of the house’s theme. Like ultra modern for example.
• The garage is detached or semi detached so drawing attention with a contrasting color won’t detract from the home.
• Contrasting garage doors colors accentuate the red brick.
• Too much harmonious color can make a home appear muddy which take attention away from the brick. By contrasting your red brick you help it stand out.

Beautiful home with red brick siding and 2 tone tan and gray garage doors. Matching tan trim with gray cedar shake siding.

What Color Is Your Brick?

Choosing a garage door color when your home has some brick can be challenging. There are so many different colors of brick, it’s important to consider the exact type of brick you’ll be using. Even if you’ve got a red brick, not all red bricks are the same. Natural materials like brick have a lot of color variation so make sure to have a brick sample with you when choosing your door colors. These simple tips can help you choose the best door color based on your house’s color of brick.

Pro Tips:

• Look at the colors of the brick: Match your garage door color to the actual brick’s that your using. Try not to pick door colors based on a picture of the brick.
• Color match: For a monochromatic color scheme, choose a garage door color that matches the primary color of the brick. For example, if your brick’s overall color is red, choose a red garage door. The colors don’t have to match perfectly, however, they have to be in the same family.
• Try a dark neutral: A rich chocolate brown or deep gray with a hint of color pairs well with brick. The added benefit of a neutral color is that they also go great with just about any other color your using on the house.
• Use some contrast: Look at the overall color of your brick, then choose the color that complements it on the color wheel. For example, if you have red brick, a green garage door will be an attractive choice. Make sure to pick the right shade of green though. Neutrals with a hint of green work great here. You don’t your house looking like an elf costume.
• When in doubt go white: A white garage door with red brick is the most common door color for a reason. It looks great, is considered a neutral and goes with everything. White and brick is a classic, safe color choice that you can’t go wrong with.

How To Match A Color With Red Brick

Red brick is the standard color of choice for brick homes. Most red bricks contain a variety of smaller color specs found within the brick. Also keep in mind that the overall shade of red can vary. Some red bricks are very bright red and some are darker with a lot less red. Most aren’t a completely solid red either, otherwise they would have a painted look. Because of all this variation it can be tough to find the perfect garage door color. Here’s a few more pro tips we use when matching a color to red brick.

Pro Tips:

• Your garage door color should coordinate with the overall color and tone of the brick. This is the color you see when your standing at the curb, not the small specs of color found on close inspection.
• Match the smaller specs of color to accent pieces if you have them like planters, flowers or trim.
• Brown garage doors with red brick houses are a classic color choice.
• Overall, neutral colors such as white, beige, and grey are the most common color choices and look great.
• Black garage doors can provide a nice contrast.
• Muted, grayish blues and greens look great with red brick and can provide contrast with a bit more color.
• Always take into consideration the rest of the house colors like the front door, siding, trim and shutters when matching colors to the brick. When you stand at the curb you see the whole house, not just individual elements, so it all has to look good together.

Your Home’s Architecture and Brick

You’ll want your garage door color to work well with the architecture of your home and the main color found in your brick. Here, we’ll list a few of the most common combinations of garage door colors with red brick based on the home’s architectural style.

• Cape cod: A white house, white or black garage door and black shutters and red brick.
• Colonial: A light, neutral colored or white house with white trim and neutral garage door with red brick and a black or white garage door.
• Greek revival: Generally all white with black shutters, large white columns and red brick with a black or white garage door.
• Craftsman: Muted, neutral colors such as greens, grays and browns are most common with red brick and a colored garage door.
• Modern: There’s really no standard when it comes to modern homes other than to say they use a lot of natural materials like red brick, stone, concrete and real wood.
• Victorian: Victorian homes are traditionally more colorful than other styles of homes so there’s no most common color here and they often include red brick. However, the garage door color still needs to coordinate well with the red brick. A good understanding of color theory will come in handy when designing a Victorian.
• All brick: Generally an red brick house has either white or black garage doors, front door and shutters. However brown stained wood is also a good choice.
• Stone: Stone is often used in conjunction with red brick. In this case you’ll have to find a color that works well with both. There’s no standard to list here as the color choices depend on the color stone, but it’s safe to say white, black and muted, neutral colors will generally work best.

Top Garage Door Colors With Brick Houses

The following are pictures of some of our favorite garage door colors with a brick house. Hopefully they’ll help choose the best door colors to go with your brick. Let us know if they do and send us a picture of whatever color you paint your garage door, we’d love to see it.

White Garage Doors With An All Brick Ranch House

White is a classic garage door color with red brick. It’s a bright and crisp color that goes well with pretty much any other color and is by far the most popular color choice with red brick. The only real downside of white is that it shows marks easier than a darker color will and it’s very bright. With white, your garage doors will really stand out. There’s no hiding or blending them in here. White is considered a contrasting color.

Another benefit of using white garage door paint with red brick is the cost. It’s very cheap. Every paint manufacturer makes white. You can buy it off the shelf at just about any hardware store without any mixing required.

• White is a classic, popular garage door color with red brick.
• Goes with pretty much any other house colors.
• A complimentary color. White garage doors stand out.
• White gets dirty much easier than darker colors do.

Gray And Glass Garage Doors With Red Brick Siding

Gray is a fantastic garage door color with red brick if it’s the right shade and part of the overall color scheme. We’d stick with something lighter toned than the brick. And all glass doors are a rare style for a traditional brick house but a really nice touch. Most people don’t use them because they want more privacy in the garage but if that’s not a concern of yours then consider glass garage doors. They’re very modern which also looks nice on a traditional home because the style differences create contrast. And if you want some additional privacy it’s easy to tiny or stain the glass.

Glass doors are a bit more expensive that your standard garage door but well worth the investment if you like the look.

• Gray is a neutral so it goes good with just about everything.
• Choose a lighter shade to contrast the brick.
• Glass doors are rare on traditional homes but a great choice.
• Lots of glass means more cleaning, especially down low.

Taupe Garage Doors With A Brick House

White Garage Doors With A Brick Garage

White is by far the most popular color choice paired with red brick and looks great with an all brick garage. Because white goes with anything, it works well on a home like the one shown above which features lots of architectural details and a variety of materials. You want the garage doors to stand out as the focal point of this home since the front door is on the side. And because this design is so busy, you need a garage door that goes with the red brick, stucco, pavers, concrete and siding. White garage doors are the perfect choice.

• White looks great with the red brick garage.
• Goes with pretty much any other house colors.
• A complimentary color choice. White garage doors stand out against the red brick.
• White works well in a busy design with lots of textures and materials.

Gray Garage Doors With An All Brick House

Light Brown Garage Door Paint With An All Red Brick House

White Garage Door Paint With An All Brick House

Red bricks appear red from the curb but up close they generally have warm rich undertones. Colors like orange, yellow, brown, shades of gray and sometimes occasional specks of blue and purple can be seen when you get up close to the brick. Brown bricks have an overall neutral tone with varying shades of earthy colors. These fundamental colors can be a guide for picking the perfect garage door paint to go with your brick.

The architectural style of your brick home should also be taken into consideration when picking a garage door color. Do you have a more traditional home or something more contemporary? What other materials and textures are being used on the house along with the brick? What overall color scheme are you planning on using?

Try not to go with a garage door color that clashes with the color of the bricks or the front door. This is why white is such a huge favorite paint color when designing a home with red brick. It simply goes with everything. As long as you don’t mind attention being drawn to the garage doors, white will work.

• White is a very popular garage door paint color with red brick.
• White goes with pretty much any other house color and siding material.
• A complimentary color. White garage doors stand out against the brick.
• White gets dirty much easier than darker colors do.

White Garage Door Paint With A Brick, Stone & Stucco House

White garage doors not only work for traditional homes but for more contemporary styles as well with a wide variety of siding materials. This two story house features real stone veneer, stucco and red brick with black railings, a concrete driveway, black metal accent roof and lot’s of green landscaping. The white garage door is the perfect choice here because it goes with everything.

• White is the most popular garage door paint color with red brick.
• White goes with pretty much any other house color and siding material.
• A complimentary color that stands out against the brick, stone and stucco.
• White paints works with a metal or wood garage door.
• It also works great with the wood front door and black railings.

Cream Color Garage Doors With White Washed Brick & Siding

More Cream Garage Doors With Light Colored Brick & Stucco

Choosing a garage door paint color that’s harmonious with the brick and other house colors can have great results. However don’t forget to add some contrast into the design. If everything on the home is relatively the same color the house will look flat. You have to create depth by adding in contrasting colors. Here we have a light red brick with cream colored garage doors, trim, rails and columns with tan stucco. The colors are all quite harmonious and would make the home appear flat if not for the black metal accent roofing, shutters and front door.

Going with a dark shade is a great choice when adding contrast to a light to medium toned house. You don’t have to go as dark as black, but it’s a fantastic choice. Black is so dark it becomes a contrast to every other color around it, including the landscaping and driveway. It also works nicely with the black shingled roofing and mailbox.

Cream Garage Doors With Red Brick & Stucco

Picking a garage door color that flows well with your brick’s color is a must. Brick comes in a variety of colors and textures so picking the perfect color garage door is really a personal decision. There’s no one size fits all answer, but cream is pretty close. It goes with almost any style or color brick. And in this case, you have both the red brick and stucco to match, which cream does nicely.

If you have a home like the example shown above. Which features red brick, large columns, stucco, and thick window / door trim, picking the perfect color garage doors can be a challenge. Cream is worth some consideration. It’s a neutral and pretty light, although much darker than white. So it stands out but not so much so that it detracts from the brick and other elements.

• Cream is a neutral.
• Generally considered a harmonious color when it’s light.
• Goes great with natural, earthy color schemes.
• Cream garage doors work well with red brick.
• Offered in a variety of shades and value ranges.

Real Wood Garage Doors With Red Brick, Stone & Stucco

Stained real wood is a rich choice that goes beautifully with red brick. Both the brick and wood are real, natural materials, so they inherently go together perfectly. Add in some stucco and real stone veneer for a fantastic exterior design. Each elements has it’s own distinct colors and textures but since they all fall within a natural, earthy color scheme, it works.

Tan Garage Doors With Red Brick & Real Stone

Remember no brick is completely one, solid color. Red bricks are usually a blend of different shades of reds, browns, tans, sometimes with flecks of other colors. These bricks appear to be mostly red from the curb, but up close you’ll find no less than a dozen smaller colors including lots of tan.

Some homeowners like to match their garage door to smaller colors found in the brick and other features like the stone. This is called a harmonious color scheme. By finding a color scheme where everything kind of matches, and nothing really pops out, your house can appear a bit larger. Harmonious garage doors can also be desirable if you want to draw more attention to other places like the front door. Most people we work with don’t really want the garage doors to be what stands out on their house.

Harmonious garage doors often include more neutral colors from browns and tans and generally fall on the lighter side as really dark color tend to stand out.

More Great Example Pics Of Garage Doors With Red Brick

A light cream double garage door with red brick and blue siding.

Stained real wood double garage door with a completely red brick house. Thick stucco window / door trim with columns.

Dark stained real wood garage doors with red brick and gray siding.

Conclusion

When it comes to making the right choices for your home’s exterior color scheme, choosing the perfect color garage doors to match your brick is a must. It’s all in how they’re used together that defines just how great your design can be. Combine textures and colors effectively, choose a harmonious color scheme or something with a lot of contrast. And don’t forget to consider your homes overall style and architectural elements. Try to use general principles of design as a guide rather than a list of steadfast rules that you have to follow.

Color choices for garage doors are extensive, so to make thing simpler, design the rest of the house first and then pick a garage door color that works well with everything else. Generally speaking, most clients don’t want their garage doors to be what stands out most from the curb, so go with a harmonious color that doesn’t overpower the rest of the house or front door.

Check out plenty of example picks from beautiful homes for inspiration. Stick with a light, neutral color and you really can’t go wrong. And remember that paint is pretty cheap, if you don’t like the color, just re-paint it.

When your all done E-mail us some pics, we’d love to see what you’ve created.