afish said:
I dont understand why you want to raise the rails. It does nothing to help storage if anything it ruins any storage options.
You're right, of course, but it's not 100% about storage for me. A significant portion of the appeal of making changes to the garage door setup is, for me, about aesthetics. I don't like having the garage door tracks over my head in the middle of the room.
And I'm not positive about this, but I believe that if I raise them, I could also shorten them. If the door follows the (new, higher) curve in its "open" position, the tracks wouldn't need to come out as far into the room. That would free up ceiling space, in which case I would have plenty of room to put whatever I want up there outside the footprint of the tracks (which would be either wood storage or a workbench top - I've got plenty of space for totes, etc. elsewhere).