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  • Your Garage’s Curb Appeal

    Whenever you consider making a large change to your home, it is a good idea to keep resale value in mind. Unless you plan on owning your home for the rest of your life, you will need to put it back on the market at some point. If you make undesirable changes to your home in order to make it more appropriate for your living situation, you might find yourself regretting the choice when your house languishes, unsold, for months. Many homeowners wonder if converting their garage to a living space would give them a leg up against the competition, and others don’t know if they can expect to recoup the cost of a new garage door when they sell. We’ve done the research and can pass our findings on to you, so that you can be an informed consumer.

  • Garage Door Origins

    The origins of the garage door are difficult to trace. If you consider early chariot gatehouses to be garages, then the earliest doors date to around 450 BC. These early doors were used to shelter chariots when they weren’t being used in sport or war, and functioned very similarly to barn doors. Romans used their chariots for carrying archers around the battlefield and to transport their leaders, and perhaps more often for sports like hunting and racing. The invention of the spoked wheel made chariots possible as early as 2000 BC, and chariot races were still popular through the 6th century.

  • 8 Hilarious Garage Door Fails

    Everyone has had some experience with a garage door failure, but hopefully you haven’t failed as badly as these homeowners. Scroll through our list to see some truly world-class failures from around the web and contact us to share are failure stories of your own! We don’t advocate doing anything you see in the pictures below, unless of course you want to end up in our next fail list!

  • The Google Garage

    Google is the most omnipresent and omnipotent power that people interact with on a daily basis, which has given some geeks the idea to argue that Googlism – that is, worship of Google as God – is the closest that humans will ever come to interacting with something omnipotent. The farcical religion is more joke than theology, but the believers of Googlism are right about Google’s power over every part of our lives. Google is the most-visited website in the world and handles over half of all internet searches, but Google Inc is also involved in Email, cloud storage, an office software suite, and a host of cutting-edge technologies like self-driving cars and augmented reality headsets. The company is a very big deal, and vying with Apple (another garage startup!) for the coveted position of most valuable brand.

  • 13 Garage Doors Myths, Debunked

    People say things that aren’t true all of the time. Sometimes, they don’t know better. Sometimes, they’re trying to sell you things that you don’t really need. This sort of misinformation has led to a bunch of rumors and myths about garage doors that aren’t true. Today, we’ll dispel 13 of the most common myths so that you can have the right answers to these important questions. Feel free to check these for yourself if you don’t believe us, but we’d much rather educate a customer than charge someone for services or upgrades they don’t need.

  • Tiny Garage: Living Small and Simple

    It takes a visionary mind to look at a beaten-up metal door and the unfinished garage space inside and see the opportunity for a ultra-modern tiny home, but when French Photographer Jérémie Buchholz wanted to find a place to live in Bordeaux, he decided not to rent, but to reinvent. The Tiny House Movement is coming, and soon you might see small homes built on trailer beds traveling around the country near you.

  • Holding a Candle to Yankee Candle

    The Kittredge family may just have a little wax in their blood. Michael Kittredge II started making candles when he was just 16, starting The Yankee Candle Company in his parent’s garage. Forty years later, his son Michael III founded Kringle Candle, establishing the company just 20 miles from Yankee Candle’s flagship store. Michael III is intent on following in his father’s footsteps to greatness, although of course having a multimillionaire father means that he has plenty of help beginning his journey. Michael Kittredge the II, his father, only had three things – a dream, a garage, and a single candle.

  • Bearly Believable

    Forgive the unbearable pun in the title – we just can’t bear to not report on this hilarious but terrifying occurrence. If you live in an area with high bear activity like Colorado, California, or apparently even Ellijay, Georgia, we hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your garage could be at risk for a bear attack!

  • Making Mickey: Disney’s Dream Turned Reality

    Walt Disney’s success sounds almost like one of his fairy tales. When the young cartoonist began filming his “Alice Comedy” shorts in his uncle’s garage, no one could have predicted that Disney would spend the next century growing into a multi-billion dollar international king of family entertainment, revolutionizing animation and building some of the world’s most visited tourist attractions, the Disneyland parks in Florida, California, Tokyo, Paris, and Hong Kong.