The garage door is the new front door!!!

There's more to new garage doors than just beauty. We use the garage door as the main way to get in and out of our homes more than ever. Another survey said that 71 percent of homeowners use their garage door openers to get in their homes every day. The key to the front door is now the garage door's remote control.

It's just more convenient. Getting in through the garage makes it easy for us to get groceries into the kitchen. You can leave muddy shoes or boots and drenched coats in the garage and keep your house cleaner. And with a keyless entry pad, you don't have to fiddle with a key, and neither do your kids.

"Once you have a keypad, you'll never go back. It's a small luxury that quickly becomes a necessity," said Tom Wadsworth, editor of Door & Access Systems, another industry magazine.

And you can kick-up your garage door opener as well with a battery back-up system so that even in a power outage, you're good to go – in or out of your home, that is. Your kids will never be locked out of your home in a storm again, even in an extended outage.