Carriage garage doors are increasingly the garage door type among the contemporary and modern house owners these types of garage doors have such popularity dude the aesthetics and style they add to the overall look of the house. They imitate the old style carriage houses that were used to store the horse carriages in the early century. Today the modern versions of the carriage garage doors are either manual or they can also be automatically opened by an automatic opener.

There are two types of carriage garage doors, one that opens two-sided doors that either slide open or are pushed inwardly to let the car in .The second type opens outward as the typical old style carriage storage garages did. The modern version of this latter garage door is the overhead door where the door opens upwards.

The first type of carriage garage doors is however more popular among the high end home-owners. They come in a variety of different materials such as wood, which is more popular, aluminum or steel.