I did a 3/4 lite with two 3/4 sidelites for my front door. I love it! The extra light is wonderful and the look is beautiful IMO. We're in a rural area, so no concerns about seeing into the house from the outside. I don't know if there are practical concerns either way, but IMO get whatever you like the look of. Please excuse the mess, we're still under construction...

Thank you to everyone for the thoughtful and thought-provoking answers. You've given me a lot of ideas, and pointed out areas that I could improve that I hadn't thought of. Counting up the responses, it is pretty evenly split between staying with the original dark green (or another dark color) and changing to a sunflower/dark gold color. I also like the deeper blue posted by door1 and tracey b's eggplant door. So many choices, only one front door! It's raining here (again, and I live in an area with perpetual drought, so I should be grateful) so I won't be painting today, even though I'm anxious to bring this project to completion. I'm going to save my final color choice for a 'reveal' thread after I'm done. Some things that I am going to do, thanks to your suggestions: get bigger pots with more colorful plantings for the front porch, possible add a bench, add much more color to the plantings in front, look into replacing the light fixture with something larger and in scale with the house, and work on my DH to try to tame and/or replace some of our overgrown shrubbery. Again, thanks to everyone who helped me with your advice and opinions. Having fresh eyes evaluate my home really helped, and I will keep you posted! Sugar-Plum

Not 100% sure but i doubt that is a decal nor is it removable. I have sold many many entrance door units and have yet to see one with the decorative lite being a film.

I have transoms above every door on the first floor of my 1965 house. However the divider at the tops of the doors is very narrow. In the living room the effect is floor-to-ceiling and nearly wall-to-wall glass. They are standard 6'8" doors and the transoms have a glass area of about 11" high. Some antique houses here have fanlights as in your photo and eight foot ceilings although those doors are usually about 6'6" instead of the modern 6'8". So in my experience, yes, you can have transoms with 8' ceilings and a reasonable appearance.