Thinking about Spanish garage door designs and don’t quite know where to turn? In my opinion, this Santa Barbara Spanish garage door setup is ideal.
Listen in as I explain what is good about it, and the specific design strategies you can incorporate into your own project. I’ll share links to other posts so you can see these techniques successfully built into other local projects.
Listen as I walk you through pro designer tips on how you can be thinking of your Spanish garage door. Designer details you may have never thought about…
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“Are you struggling with SGDDA? Commonly known as Spanish Garage Door Design Anxiety? Well, I’m a Spanish home designer in Santa Barbara- and I wanted to share more pro insights to help you out!
My career specializing in Spanish Homes and Landscapes started out in 2003, and since then I’ve learned a lot about designing Spanish garage doors!
But today, I’m specifically showing you a quality example of a Santa Barbara style Spanish garage door that’s pleasing to the eye, and fits perfectly into classic Santa Barbara Spanish architecture.
I actually feature this home in a separate post, where I showcase a local Santa Barbara Landscape Designer. And there, you can see the entire home and how this garage door fits into the overall design scheme of her landscape.
So, this specific image that I’m posting today provides a visual for the design tips I think you should be thinking about while designing your own special project.
First off, the arched opening is actually… built in front of a basic wood garage door. So, the tip here is you can get away with a relatively affordable wood garage door, but… you embellish it with Spanish details.
In other words, thickening the wall where this garage door will be recessed. And I will share you a link to another post where I actually show you framing details, and actually how to do all of that.
When the previous owner was actually flipping this house, they completely changed the colors to classic Santa Barbara Spanish-style colors, you know the classic white for the plaster walls, and then this beautiful “Santa Barbara Blue” on the garage doors. And that made a huge improvement. So simply focusing on your exterior colors is gonna be a big win for you.
They also brought in iron hinges, and for lack of a better term… “door handles” and that’s just a little bit of Spanish jewelry that you know, can be added to a affordable Spanish garage door.
The photo also illustrates how clay pots and vines can be grown up and over your garage door. And I guess I would just encourage you to check out my other blog posts to see…
You know, this is a double car garage, and this photo also illustrates how you can separate the two individual garage doors if you have enough width on your garage. And that makes it look a lot more high-end as well, when you have individual garage doors for each car.
I hope that was helpful… Definitely check out my other links. I’ve been posting a lot of different projects where those photos, or those projects actually have other garage door designs that you can check out. Have a great day”—Jeff Doubet, September 11, 2025
A Spanish Garage Door in Santa Barbara Blue (paint)
Here is an excellent example of a Spanish garage door painted in “Santa Barbara Blue”. A classic paint color that works perfectly with the white exterior paint on the house, and the terra-cotta red tile roof. It doesn’t get more Santa Barbara than this!
Here you can see how the overall composition of the deeply recessed garage doors work with the surrounding features of the property, including an amazing succulent garden. This link takes you to my blog post about the local Santa Barbara landscape designer. Worth a looksie!