The best style or theme is useless in and of itself. It can be a good start. It's the execution of that style or theme, that makes it pop. Or not.
Here's a hint for folks: If a style, right out of the box, loads 1mb or more on browsers the style is too fat. This isn't counting your own added images and Mods and stuff - this is just the style itself. You can pretty much tell this by the byte size of the files, for the style.
Have you looked at the theme? It's basically 'out of the box', hence why I mentioned it for others who may like the look of it (I'm not trying to critique the forum at all, I think it is great, and love the fixed header idea).