I'll be changing mine soon, it will have the default feel to it too but will be completely changed in color.
Like one of my sites here
www.fsotmoms.com I reworked all the images in different hues and made my own icons... took a mad amount of time but its just the default template manipulated to look different. Use the styler changer at the bottom to see the several shades I chose to do..
I like the simplicity as the years of VB ownership go by. I'll be redoing my big board so that it has less update pains LOL. It sucks when your designer goes belly up and stops updating their templates and you have to spend days even weeks searching templates and making the changes. I'd like to have a revert template reliability!!