Dodds Top 10 Garage Doors of 2025
Each year we are fortunate to have the opportunity to install beautiful Dodds garage doors in homes across the Greater Toronto Area. As 2025 begins, we would like to take this opportunity to highlight some of the trends that we believe will be the best garage door installations for 2025.
Garage doors come in a multitude of styles, colours and finishing options, but what makes a garage door truly great is how well it fits your home. The best garage door for you may not be the right garage door for your neighbour, but that’s okay! At Dodds Garage Doors, we provide a wide range of garage door services and products to ensure that you get the best residential garage door for you. View our list below of what we think will be some of the best garage doors this year.
Get inspired by these stunning transformations—no matter your personal style preference, the type of home you live in, or your aesthetic taste, Dodds has the perfect new garage door for you!
The Modern Look
Building off of the modern look, one of the best residential garage door designs for 2025 is the minimalist look. As the name implies, these no-fuss garage doors lack the ornate details and hardware popular in traditional garage doors but are no less appealing for their clean lines and streamlined design.
Look at this example of a minimalist, modern design. The full-view aluminum door draws attention to the stunning large windows of the home. The glass on the garage door is tinted, creating this premium look without sacrificing privacy.
The key thing to note with minimalist or modern garage doors is that they are meant to complement a modern home. To that end, they tend to feature materials such as glass, aluminum, and composite materials, as well as hidden mechanisms, to allow for a more streamlined and sleeker look while minimizing exposed hardware. However, they can also blend well with more traditional homes.
One example is this cute, red-brick home tucked right in next to the bustling Bloor West Village of Toronto. Two steel garage doors with tinted windows provide an updated contemporary feel to this otherwise traditional home. Using one accent colour across your home’s facade is a great way to ensure a cohesive look. In this example, the garage door and front door were selected to perfectly match the charcoal shutters around the windows.
To view more modern and minimalist designs, check out our website or visit one of our showrooms.
This cute, red brick home is tucked right in next to the bustling Bloor West Village of Toronto. The two, single, modern, steel garage doors with tinted windows provide an updated contemporary feel to this otherwise traditional home. Using one accent colour across your home’s facade is a great way to ensure a cohesive look. In this example, the garage door and front door were selected to perfectly match the charcoal shutters around the windows. This was possible because Dodds has a wide selection of both standard and custom garage door colours – learn more.
Coach House Classic
Wooden garage doors are a classic choice, but even the look of faux wood doors can make for some of the best residential garage doors of 2025.
Check out this wood-looking garage door for instance. Featuring an eye-catching steel plank and cedar-wood-toned door, it highlights the wood accents of this modern home beautifully. Faux wood doors have come a long way and are gaining popularity as they provide the look of wood, making for a stylish garage door without all the added maintenance.
Other examples of great wood-looking garage doors come in more traditional coach house-style garage doors, such as these two from visually distinct and different homes in Whitby and Brampton. The Whitby home embraces a warm colour pallet with a mix of terracotta and orange bricks. It also has turrets and low-pitched roofs that nod to Edwardian style. Whereas the Brampton home has a cooler all-white aesthetic and is more inspired by Victorian-era design, with its high-pitched and intricate roofs. Despite their differences, these steel, wood-tone, coach house garage doors look perfect on both of these facades.
There’s also this Newmarket home, which features two walnut wood-tone coach house garage doors perfectly. This home shows off how a matching garage door and entry door can create a cohesive and luxurious look to the facade of a home, making it a perfect example of why wood is such a popular look.
The architecture of your home should always be considered when choosing a garage door, but it should not limit your options! Call Dodds Doors today to learn more about your options.
These stunning, shaker-style, coach house garage doors give this otherwise suburban home a cozy, rustic feeling. Did you know that virtually any garage door can be transformed into your ideal coach house style by simply adding your preferred decorative hardware? In this case, the homeowner chose black, vintage-style door handles. The Hawthorne designer glass windows also have beautiful gold-coloured detailing that complements that of the existing front door.
Elevated Traditional
Smart Residential Garage Doors
No one can deny that technology has increased in leaps and bounds in recent years, and smart home features have been finding ways to increase the convenience of everyday tasks. From turning on your oven remotely to checking up on your pet while you’re at work, it seems like there is a smart home feature for everything, so why not your garage doors?
In the examples shown above, while smart garage features may not have a major visual impact, you will notice the impact on convenience and safety in your everyday life. These innovative garage door features allow you to remotely monitor and control your unit via your smartphone app, providing real-time alerts when they’re being opened, allowing for voice command operation, camera integration, automatic locking, WiFi-enabled garage door openers, and integrating with the rest of your smart home technology for ease of access.
Custom New Garage Door Designs
While cookie-cutter designs and basic, common garage doors are good for those wanting to appeal to a broader audience, these days, more and more homeowners are looking to put their own stamp on their home. That’s why the next item on our list of top garage doors for 2025 is custom garage door styles.
From choosing garage doors that match your unique architectural style to choosing hardware to paint your favourite colour, there are multiple ways to customize your new garage doors. You can even upgrade existing doors by getting our team to install decorative finishes on the door panels or paint them a new colour. So in 2025, we predict that some of the best residential garage doors will be ones our customers customize to their tastes. As these homes demonstrate, whether it’s a little customization or an eye-catching design, custom designs truly make for some of the best garage doors.
Insulation and Eco-Friendly Garage Door Materials
More and more, we’ve had customers ask us how eco-friendly our high-quality garage doors are and if they will improve their home’s energy efficiency. That’s why some of the top garage doors in 2025 will be ones featuring eco-friendly materials that can reduce energy consumption for your home.
For example, materials such as recycled steel or aluminum, bamboo, and composite materials are more sustainable materials used for the construction of garage doors. Additionally, insulating garage doors with polyurethane foam insulation not only offers better insulation options for your garage compared to uninsulated garage doors but can prevent air leaks and heat transfer, leading to energy savings from less temperate air loss or heat loss without impeding the garage door operation.
But in addition to lowering energy costs and reducing your environmental footprint, you’ll find that some of the best garage door options available also come in stylish designs, such as these examples in GTA homes.
Garage and Entry Door Duos
This stylish home, located in Newmarket, features two, walnut wood-tone, coach house garage doors perfectly. This home shows off how a matching garage door and entry door creates a cohesive and lux look to the facade of a home and absolutely deserves its spot in our top installations of the year.
This Whitby homeowner has chosen to add a jolt of personality to their home with this beautiful, ruby-red, double front door. To balance out this bold statement a more understated bronze colour was chosen for the garage door. However, the garage door is far from bland with its sophisticated Stockton windows and coach house style decorative hardware that give it a homey, vintage feel. This home is a great example of how contrasting but complementing the front door and garage door can elevate curb appeal.
That’s a wrap on the Dodds Doors team’s favourite garage door transformations for this year. If you have been lucky enough to upgrade to a new Dodds Garage Door recently we would love it if you would share by tagging us on social media with the hashtag #mygaragedoorisadoddsdoors.
If you are inspired to upgrade your garage or entry door in 2023 give the Toronto garage door experts at Dodds a call to schedule a free in home or virtual consultation on our website.
Smart Residential Garage Doors
No one can deny that technology has increased in leaps and bounds in recent years, and smart home features have been finding ways to increase the convenience of everyday tasks. From turning on your oven remotely to checking up on your pet while you’re at work, it seems like there is a smart home feature for everything, so why not your garage doors?
In the examples shown above, while smart garage features may not have a major visual impact, you will notice the impact on convenience and safety in your everyday life. These innovative garage door features allow you to remotely monitor and control your unit via your smartphone app, providing real-time alerts when they’re being opened, allowing for voice command operation, camera integration, automatic locking, WiFi-enabled garage door openers, and integrating with the rest of your smart home technology for ease of access.
Custom New Garage Door Designs
While cookie-cutter designs and basic, common garage doors are good for those wanting to appeal to a broader audience, these days, more and more homeowners are looking to put their own stamp on their home. That’s why the next item on our list of top garage doors for 2025 is custom garage door styles.
From choosing garage doors that match your unique architectural style to choosing hardware to paint your favourite colour, there are multiple ways to customize your new garage doors. You can even upgrade existing doors by getting our team to install decorative finishes on the door panels or paint them a new colour. So in 2025, we predict that some of the best residential garage doors will be ones our customers customize to their tastes. As these homes demonstrate, whether it’s a little customization or an eye-catching design, custom designs truly make for some of the best garage doors.
Insulation and Eco-Friendly Garage Door Materials
More and more, we’ve had customers ask us how eco-friendly our high-quality garage doors are and if they will improve their home’s energy efficiency. That’s why some of the top garage doors in 2025 will be ones featuring eco-friendly materials that can reduce energy consumption for your home.
For example, materials such as recycled steel or aluminum, bamboo, and composite materials are more sustainable materials used for the construction of garage doors. Additionally, insulating garage doors with polyurethane foam insulation not only offers better insulation options for your garage compared to uninsulated garage doors but can prevent air leaks and heat transfer, leading to energy savings from less temperate air loss or heat loss without impeding the garage door operation.
But in addition to lowering energy costs and reducing your environmental footprint, you’ll find that some of the best garage door options available also come in stylish designs, such as these examples in GTA homes.
Natural Light
Nobody wants a dingy, dark garage, but unless you have a window looking into your garage, your best bet to allow for natural light into your garage is to have garage doors with windows. There are many window styles available for your garage door, such as these Stockton windows on a garage door in Hampton. While the colour of the garage door is meant to off-set the bold colour of the front door, it is no less eye-catching, largely due to the style of windows chosen and the decorative hardware, making the home a great example of how contrasting but complementing the front door and garage door can elevate curb appeal.
Windows on garage doors can come in all shapes and forms: they can feature a series of narrow windows along the top of or the side of the garage door, feature a single large window, or constitute the entire door. They don’t even have to be true windows at all, such as these examples of frosted glass panels, which allow for plenty of natural light but ensure your privacy and security within the garage when the door is closed.
Looking for the Best Garage Doors? Call Dodds Doors for Overhead Doors, Insulated Garage Doors & More
There is a garage door for everyone. So whether you’re looking for a similar set of replacement doors from your preferred garage door brand or are looking for an entirely new set of steel doors, at Dodds Garage Doors, we can find the best garage doors for you.
Property owners in the Greater Toronto area, such as Aurora, Guelph, Newmarket, Richmond Hill, North York, and Vaughan
Give us a call today at 1-877-503-6337, or visit one of our showrooms to check out our wide selection of quality garage door solutions available for your home. Don’t forget to show us why you have the best garage doors in the GTA by tagging us on social media with the hashtag #mygaragedoorisadoddsdoors.
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