6 Tips to Transform your Colorado Garage into a Beautiful, Cohesive Part of Your Home

Color palette plays a crucial role in home design, influencing the mood, atmosphere, and overall aesthetic of a living space. The right combination of colors can create harmony, enhance the perception of space, and reflect the personality of the home owners. A well-chosen palette can tie different rooms together, creating a cohesive flow throughout the home. 

The garage, an integral part of your home, deserves equal attention to its color scheme. By coordinating the hues of paint, flooring, work benches and storage units you can create a unified color palette. Failing to match your garage’s color scheme with the rest of your home simply means missing out on a great opportunity to enhance your property's overall aesthetic.

This thoughtful approach transforms your garage into a visually appealing space, tailored to suit its various functions, whether for work, storage, or leisure.  Custom Garage Solutions offers a variety of color options, including custom colors, for both flooring and storage - these tried and tested colors are sure to complement your home and streamline the garage transformation process.

Here are 6 tips to help you choose garage paint, flooring and cabinet colors you won’t regret.

1. Consider the Climate

Choose colors that withstand Colorado's varied weather. Colorado's dramatic seasonal shifts can affect how colors appear. Choose a palette that looks good year-round, considering how it will look against snow in winter, fall foliage, or lush summer greenery.

Our Custom Polyaspartic Flooring System is engineered to withstand Colorado's challenging climate while offering multiple benefits: effortless upkeep, long-lasting durability, quick installation, and improved safety features. Best of all, you can customize it to match your preferred color scheme and our polyaspartic flooring system features several benefits and upgrades over traditional epoxy for durability and effectiveness in every climate.

High-quality cabinets offer a robust solution to our harsh climate, shielding possessions from environmental wear and tear, and significantly extending their durability. Over two decades of experience has taught us that not all products are created equal. A quality cabinet in your garage plays a vital role in maintaining an organized and functional space. This is why CGS partners with New Age Products and professionally installs custom storage cabinets and lockers in a variety of colors.

2. Complement Your Home's Exterior

Selecting colors that harmonize with your home's exterior is crucial for creating a cohesive and attractive property. This approach ensures your garage doesn't look like an afterthought but rather an integral part of your home's design. 

Analyze your home's color scheme by taking a close look at your home's exterior colors, including the main siding color, trim, roof, and any stonework or brick. These elements should guide your garage color choices. Select colors that directly match your home's exterior or choose complementary colors that work well with your existing palette. For example, if your home has warm beige siding, you might choose a warm color like our popular “saddle tan” for your garage floor. 

Our range of flooring color options includes both cool tones (Midnight Blue, Salt and Pepper and Granite) and warm shades (Saddle Tan and Red Rocks) along with Coyote which is a customer favorite. Select the temperature that best aligns with your home's overall color scheme.

Our six popular flooring colors suit various tastes and home styles. These tried-and-tested options can simplify your decision-making process. For homes with unique color schemes, we offer the flexibility of custom color creation. This ensures you can achieve the perfect match or complement to your home's exterior.  Once you've selected your flooring color, use it as a base to coordinate other elements in your garage. This creates a flowing, cohesive look throughout the space. New Age Products offer cabinet colors that easily pair with various flooring options. Popular choices include platinum, black, grey, and red. These can be selected to either match or provide an attractive contrast to your flooring. 

The colors of your flooring, walls and storage solutions work together to ground your garage space. The right combination can elevate your garage from a mere storage area to a functional and aesthetically pleasing extension of your home. By thoughtfully selecting colors that complement your home's exterior, you create a harmonious transition from the outside of your home to the inside of your garage.

3. Reflect Colorado's Natural Beauty

Colorado's stunning landscapes offer a rich palette of inspiration for your garage color scheme. By drawing from the state's natural beauty, you can create a space that feels uniquely local and in tune with its surroundings. 

Mountain Inspirations: Consider using shades of gray that mimic the mountains. From light, misty grays to deeper charcoal tones, these colors can add a sense of strength and permanence to your garage. 
Forest Hues: Incorporate deep greens or warm browns reminiscent of Colorado's vast forests. These colors can create a calming, nature-inspired atmosphere. 
High Plains Palette: Draw from the golden hues of the eastern plains with warm beiges, tans, and wheat colors. These earthy tones can make your garage feel warm and inviting. 
Sky and Water: Colorado's famous "bluebird skies" and clear mountain lakes can be represented with various shades of blue, from pale cerulean to deep navy. 
Mineral-Inspired Tones: Colors like slate blue, quartz pink, or fool's gold can reference Colorado's rich mining history.

Our "Red Rocks" flooring color is a perfect example of how to capture Colorado's essence in your garage palette. This unique blend of grey, white, taupe, and clay red evokes the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheater and the state's distinctive clay red color. It's a versatile choice that can serve as a striking primary color or an accent to complement other nature-inspired hues. By choosing colors that reflect Colorado's landscapes, you create a garage that feels like a natural extension of the local environment, blending seamlessly with your home and surroundings.

4. Factor in Lighting

When selecting colors for your garage makeover, it's crucial to test samples before making a final decision. This step can save you time, money, and potential disappointment. 

Natural light varies throughout the day, affecting how colors appear. Morning light tends to be cooler, while afternoon light is often warmer. Test colors at different times early morning, midday, late afternoon, and evening. 

Your garage lighting can significantly impact color perception. Test colors under the specific lighting you use in your garage (fluorescent, LED, incandescent). Consider how colors look when your garage door is both open and closed.

Photograph the samples at different times of day. This allows you to compare options without repeatedly visiting the garage.

5. Balance Functionality and Style

When selecting colors for your garage, it's crucial to strike a balance between practicality and personal expression - this can be challenging!

Choose colors that can hide dirt, dust, and wear. Medium tones often work best for this purpose. Consider the activities in your garage. If you do a lot of messy work, darker colors might be more forgiving. Lighter colors show dirt more easily but can make the space feel larger and brighter.  

Consider colors that reflect your interests. For example, if you are a car enthusiast, you might choose colors that complement your vehicle (See 5 Ways to Create the Ultimate Luxury Car Garage.) Think about the mood you want to create. Cool colors can make the space feel calm and organized, while warm colors can make it feel energetic and inviting. 

Use bolder colors for accents to add personality without overwhelming the space. Consider colorful storage cabinets (hello red), tool organizers, or even modernize your garage with a feature of slat wall. These accents are easier and less expensive to change if you want to update your look in the future.

6. Consider Resale Value

If you plan to sell your home in the future, consider using neutral or versatile colors that appeal to a wide range of potential buyers. This doesn't mean you can't use color, but perhaps use it in accents (referenced in the #5 tip) or areas that are easily changed. The more neutral tones of granite, blacks and grays are always in style and add a clean aesthetic to your garage.

A well-organized, clean, and visually appealing garage can increase the overall value of your home. When it comes time to sell your home, potential buyers will appreciate the added storage and organization that quality cabinets provide, making your property more appealing in the real estate market.

Selecting the right color palette for your Colorado garage is an important step in creating a functional and aesthetically pleasing home. A well-chosen palette not only enhances the visual appeal of your garage but also contributes to its durability and ease of maintenance. With the wide range of options available transforming your garage into a beautiful, cohesive part of your Colorado home has never been more simple.

If you are curious about upgrading the garage space in your Colorado home, you can learn more about our Custom Garage Solutions Floor Systems, garage doors, cabinets and shelving or other custom upgrades that we can provide.

You can also request a free estimate here. We’d love to work with you anywhere in the Denver area!

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