may be provided on either the rear side which retains them out of view from the outside or on the front side of the door buckles and straps could also be used by providing a top end of the cover with straps and a bottom end with buckles of a strap buckle pair 6 that interlock with each other as illustrated in fig6 if desired sides of the cover could also be attached by the buckles and straps or by any of the other attachment devices in this embodiment the straps 6 may be stretchable or alternatively the cover material may be stretchable to take up its own slack of course the orientation could be reversed alternatively the buckles straps could be used to attach the cover directly to the garage door by one buckle strap being affixed to the door for connection to a corresponding buckle strap affixed to the decorative cover additionally a device may be provided for fixing a position of a part of the cover with respect to the door so that the cover remains properly positioned and does not 34 walk 34 relative to the door although the strap buckle combination will eliminate slack when the door is closed a velcro double sided tape or similar attachment device may be used to fix a single point of the cover to the door so the cover is returned to the same position each time the door is closed fig7 illustrates a preferred attachment.