How To Make A Monster Garage Door

After painting toothy jaws on her automatic garage door and two terrifying green eyes above the face of a creepy monster was glaring out from amanda s home.

How to make a monster garage door.

Stretch tarp over your garage door. And yes as the garage door closes and opens it appears as though the scary creature is. I love to make things myself and especially saving money doing it myself. We needed a replacement garage door and i perfer one that swings out so i can use.

When amanda opens her garage door the jaws of the monster close an effect which is impossible to look away from. I tensioned the tarp using regular bungie chords but you could just as easily use rope or tape even. This was a little tricky to do solo so i would suggest recruiting a helper. Each of our panels will be 12 feet by 3 feet 3 7 meters by 9 meters.

Lower the door and voila one monster house. 1 hang black plastic over garage door 2 draw design for eyes and teeth on foam core 3 cut out eyes and teeth 4 using poster board cut out eyebrows gums and any additional facial features. You just use paper and other supplies to create a face on your door so that the door itself is the monster with a monster wreath you are creating an adorably scary little critter that hangs on your door and greets trick or treaters. In 2016 she turned her garage door into a scary monster and this year she s turned it into a dragon.

The idea with a monster door is simple. Cut two pieces of 1 by 2 inch wood studs to the width of the door less 2 inches 5 centimeters. One look at the before photo can easily make you appreciate how much imagination grit faith and commitment was required to turn this filthy mouse infested foreclosure into a warm inviting craftsman style home. This professional face painter wanted to do something for halloween.

These will allow the door to roll freely. But this is far from the coolest part. The windows and simple v design on the new clopay garage doors complements the timber frame detailing over the front door. The monster s eyes and top of its mouth are attached above the garage door and stay put.