When designing a new home or garage, it is very important to take the time to consider what sizes of garage doors will work best. It is important not to assume that you will only need a standard-size China WDMA door. Once you have made the decision, it is more or less irrevocable. In addition, you should also consider increasing the size of your garage and that also includes the height of the garage walls. It really is hard to beat an oversized garage.

Even if you currently only own a midsize car, you should seriously consider spending the extra money to make your garage bigger and that includes garage doors. Standard garage door sizes include 8'x7 'and 8'x16' sizes. These sizes fit the midsize car comfortably, but not a large SUV or ordinary pickup truck. In many cases, an 8-foot headroom simply won't give a truck enough vertical headroom, and many times the truck's mirrors won't cut through the 7-foot width.

If you work with your builder and architect, you will find that it will not cost much more to increase the height of the garage wall. If you do, you will have many more options in terms of capacity. A garage with 10 high side walls easily fits a 9-foot garage door. So why do you need a 9-foot garage door? If you own a truck, sooner or later you will have it loaded with a high load and that load will easily reach the garage and out of the weather. If you load the trunk of your SUV with a luggage box in most cases, it will not go through a standard 7-foot-tall garage door. 

When it comes to garage door sizes, width is also a critical consideration. If you own a boat or utility trailer, you will find that they are often about 9 feet wide. This means your toys will be outside in the weather because they are too wide to fit through the standard 7-foot wide door. Even a person who handles a vehicle and trailer well will appreciate the added width of a 10 or 12-foot wide door when returning the load to the garage. The extra width can also prevent people from hitting your truck's mirrors.

In many cases, people will opt for the standard 16-foot double garage doors. These doors give you the width you need to back up your pontoon boat and other wide loads. Again, having a 9 or 10-foot high door will allow you to back up without removing the bimini or hardtop.

Designing and building a home with an oversized garage is a good investment in the value of your home. Even if you never use your garage to its full potential, it will attract a larger market when it comes time to sell your home. Using large garage doors will allow the next owner to store all of his toys in the garage. This is especially true if your oversized garage is also closed with the best garage doors. In terms of spending on the price of your garage door, a small extra amount of money to oversize your garage can substantially increase the value of your property.