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You want to hear something funny though... This is when I came home and saw it the first time...we were on vacation while it got painted... It looks way better now. They were still touching up things on it.
I don't think I'd do it... but then I'm always in favor of de-emphasizing the garage door and driveway on a house, so it looks like "house with attached garage" rather than like "garage with attached house" LOL. I think the windows in the garage door add a nice detail without jumping out at you.
But if you try it and don't like it -- it's only paint, you can paint it over again to undo it!
The detached garage is another icon from eras gone by. We have one as well ... 75 ft from the house ... 4 bays and extra deep. Now don't anyone out there be envious please. It nearly blew over last spring. It doesn't have any doors and all we keep in it are my 17ft ChrisCraft and an old 1952 Ford tractor. It is really quite humble even though its 1000 sq ft. Some day we'll make it beautiful. You can be jealous of my 1935 solid mahogany planked antique ChrisCraft ... but nothing else.
dangitgirl, I'd be tempted to put up an extra long and wide pergola in front of the garage door and have wisteria growing all over to better avoid any possible illusion of the "garage with attached house" dilemma that is so much the norm with modern homes. Yours is not near so flagrant in that respect. I've actually drawn up home designs with a garage door & driveway that are minimized to the extent that many drivers or passers by would not notice either.
