Garage Doors: Harvest Festival

A bounteous, er, bounty of garage patterns this week, in honor of crisp fall days and farmers' markets.


A tart trio of Cubist pear-shapes




Some freshly pre-cored rectangles (click for detail)




Filigree still in the pods




A fancy Asian hybrid




Heirloom Southwest condiment

Garage Doors: Rectangles of the Nuclear Age

One spin on the ubiquitous rectangle features a little nucleic bar. I may be stretching a bit here but it seems slightly Sixties Futuristic, what do you think?


Three on patrol behind shrubbery



Two at ease


Four standing in formation

Garage Doors: 1 Big X

Appetizer, a simple but tasty X ala Dixie flag.



Main course, bone-in X with chevron remoulade.




Dessert, gatemouth X topped by a succulent melange of squares and diamonds.

Garage Doors: Diamondocracy

Welcome to another riveting chapter in Northwest mid-mod architecture! Still more diamond patterns cropping up... often with flags!


The Overlap



The Quilt



The Leftovers



The Lurker at the Nucleus
(no flag, but a safety cone)

A Kindred Spirit

Just found a great blog, A Chicago Sojourn, that just happens to include a post on MODERN GARAGE DOORS. Here's one shot from it:



There's also a gratifying Flickr photo pool here.

Garage Doors: Hued and Horizontal

A judicious use of color accenting various horizontal rectangles.


Twin stacks in gunmetal blue with a white outline. If you click to enlarge, you'll notice a faint bullseye effect as well.



This one probably started as another example of the ubiquitous double horizontal rectangle, but not only the addition of a central divider but a hint of red makes this door unique. Note the slippers at the driveway's edge. A clue?



Here we see the fine line between a rectangular design and bars. Two satellite dishes??



A variation of the above, on garbage pickup day.



Wouldn't you know it, just when I'd claimed the "slug trail" design as a one-of-a-kind, up crops another, this time with earthtones and the standard gratuitous patriotic embellishment.

Garage Doors: Outliers, Pt. 3

There's a certain rush when I find a design I've never seen before, but especially when that design is not simply a variation of a standard but a true outlier. I hadn't realized there were so many unique designs around though. At what point does a series of exceptions become the rule?


These rectangles sport little slugtrails.




Not sure what's going on here, it's like a half swastika.




I have yet to see another set of marching quadrilaterals that mixes squares and rectangles.




Click to enlarge this one... not only are there unique circles within rectangles but within the circles are embossed bullseyes!




This one takes the grand prize as far for outre creativity as far as I'm concerned. I especially like that it has a matching garden gate!

Garage Doors: The Diamond Mine

Most diamond designs are horizontal rather than this peppy vertical style. Reminiscent of a Lava Lamp, the diamonds increasing in size as they float to the top...



Three-interlocking-diamond designs abound, not so much two-diamond. Venn-diagram style with a third diamond spawned in the middle.



Cute, compact matching diamonds.



One subtle, asymmetrical, diamond with decorative bars.



One bold diamond hovering above a very unusual triangular bed.



One of a kind: a diamond with triangle petals! I had to wait weeks for this homeowner to move his RV out of the way.

Garage Doors: Let's Be L7

Who you calling a square?


These little guys are subtle puppies. You might have to click to enlarge this picture for a good glimpse of the quarry.



Much the same except they're crawling up the side of the door rather than scuttling along the bottom. (Go Air America!)



I like this square-within-a-square motif. Bold, and yet...



You might do a double-take and take this for a star at first, but of course it's "four-square."



No mistaking this one -- solid, Jack!

Garage Doors: Vertical Bars

Some neighborhoods need bars on the windows. Ours has bars on the garages.


The portcullis look.



Homely but indisputable.



These bars ain't gonna keep them horses in.



Reminiscent of dripping paint.



Barely bars...they're floating!



Bar minimalisme.



One big bar, or two rectangles?

Garage Doors: The Joy of Paint

Aside from performing design magic with little strips of wood, you can go crazy with paint.


Some might place windows in this position, but these folks have used paint. If you blow this up, you'll also notice the subtle diamond shape-within-a-shape.



Here are some artfully placed rectangles -- painted brown!



Here the paint is applied -- asymmetrically of course -- to the natural paneling of the door.



Hey, you can also do it with squares!



Boy howdy, can you!



Or you can just freak out and do a real painting.