Construction saga: Windows, doors and hardware...Too many choices!

After several conversations with my contractor, a trip to the glass shop and several calls to other glass shops to compare prices, I've finally made a decision about my entry door and windows. I'm having a 36" solid slab front door...the same color orange as the one on the house...with very simple bronze hardware and tempered frosted/satin glass sidelights approximately 8-10" wide x 80" high on either side of the door. I'll have very simple cylindrical bronze porch lights on either side of that.

The windows in the bathroom, laundry room and kitchen will be the same frosted/satin glass that's 24" wide x 72" high. The sliding glass doors in my bedroom that lead out onto a deck will have a very narrow bronze frame and frosted glass. 

The salesperson at the glass store talked me into frosted/satin glass rather than reeded because he said that the reeded pattern is pretty much lost when they sandblast the back to make it more opaque. He assured me that the frosted/satin glass will let in lots of soft, beautiful light and give me complete privacy. So no window treatments in the entire apartment...exactly what I wanted to hear!!!

Door on the house,
probably to be replaced soon
with a flush door with no panels

Door/sidelight configuration for the apartment,
which will have the same color scheme...gray-green house, orange door.
I'm planning a small flagstone porch in front of the door,
with one or two flagstone steps up to the threshold.

Simple Schlage handleset and matching deadbolt
handlesets.com

Poseiden 12" bronze tube up/downlight
lampsplus.com

A proposed cedar overhang similar to this across the front
houzz.com

And a back door with frosted glass like this, opening onto a small deck
homedepot.com

Instead of being painted orange, the trim around the sidelights will probably be stained to match the overhang. And don't worry that I'll get cabin fever because I can't see outside. I'll be spending a lot of time during the day in the main house...or, when the weather is nice, outside with the boys...and as long as I have plenty of ambient light when I'm in the apartment and don't have to have curtains or blinds, I'll be happy as a clam.

I think I almost have my final selections made and can picture it all put together in my head at this point. Now to execute it...

On that note, why have I been so insensitive to your renovation woes? In the course of my adulthood, I've been through a couple of new constructions, but I was living comfortably in my old home while the new ones were being built. I've also gone through a few flooring jobs and a kitchen redo...but these were small jobs that took three or four days, tops.

To those of you who didn't receive adequate sympathy and encouragement from me for all the dust in your house and all the debris in your yard, the endless stream of workmen who seemed to be at your house from dark-thirty a.m. to dark-thirty p.m., the day-after-day hassle of having to get up earlier than you had any desire to get up so you could be dressed and have your car moved out of the driveway to make room for work trucks, vans and trailers, the incessant noise of jackhammers, nail guns, power saws and your neighbor's two dogs barking insanely at workmen the entire day and the annoying delays and do-overs...you have my deepest empathy now and my heartfelt apology for not offering it sooner!  (Incidentally,  the only two do-overs my contractor has had so far were tightening the toilet bolts and replacing the set screws for my towel rack that were lost by the plumbers, so I guess I'm golden in that category.)