How To Cover A Garage Door From The Inside? Curtains?
February 23rd, 2010 | 
Author: I am moving into a two car garage that has been renovated into a nice studio apartment. Beautiful kitchen, wonderful bathroom, hardwood flooring, etc. Now the only drawback is that the city building codes prohibit the owner from building a wall over the garage door. The owner got a contractor to fully seal and insulate the garage door but the hardware is still on it (including on the ceiling) and cannot be removed….again, due to city building codes. I am planning to paint the metal hardware the color of the ceiling to sort of blend it in. Now how do I cover the garage door? Huge curtain? Some kind of bamboo panels? I have no idea! The owner is not very creative and neither am I.
Just so you know, I’m decorating the place with a Provence theme….so it’s feminine, simple yet elegant.
Thank you!
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Most of the decorating shows on TV use the big, old curtain. You could look for some fabric at Wal-Mart, etc., and sew them yourself if you have a machine–pretty simple, a little rod pocket at the stop, simple side seams, and hem. You could use several rods if you needed to. Or, I guess, you could build some kinds of a screen out of plywood and hang it from the ceiling with wires or chains and hooks and prime it and paint it or get one of those wall paper murals that might go with your planned decor. Or buy a couple three of those folding screens.
are you sure that you cannot put up a wall as long as it removable? Is the door insulated. It should be. Otherwise, the heavy curtain sounds okay.
Go for it sista…. Some background.
I would use closet doors that you can decorate with Provencial fabric or wallpaper to go with your theme. They hide well and will look like a wall!