Best Garage Doors: Choosing the Right One for Your Home

sectional garage door from Hormann
(Image credit: Hormann)

Choosing the best garage door possible is important in maintaining, or improving, your property’s kerb appeal. After all, a garage door is not small and often it’s one of the first things you see when pulling up to your home. 

The range of garage doors that are available to buy may surprise you, with a vast selection of materials and configurations to suit every style of home. 

You can trust Homebuilding & Renovating. Our expert reviewers spend hours testing and comparing products and materials in order to help you choose the best for your home and garden. Find out more about how we test.

Sarah is a freelance journalist and editor writing for websites, national newspapers, and magazines. She’s spent most of her journalistic career specialising in homes. 


She loves testing the latest home appliances and products, and investigating the benefits, costs and practicalities of home improvement. She is an experienced renovator and is currently remodelling the ground floor of her new home.


She was Executive Editor of Ideal Home and has worked for Your Home and Homes & Ideas. Her work has published by numerous titles, including The Guardian, channel4.com, Houzz, Grand Designs, Homes & Gardens, House Beautiful, Homes & Antiques, Real Homes, The English Home, Period Living, Beautiful Kitchens, Good Homes and Country Homes & Interiors.