@Brant Schroeder I used RefinedTheme on our Confluence server instance and it acts as our company Intranet. Went live with it a couple of months ago, and things have been really positive so far.
We don't have a public space -- we require all people to log in (AD synced and SSO). As well as the space permission being set for our AD groups, we also benefit from the RT functionality where we can restrict certain links / menu items to specific groups -- it's nice that the top menu bar can effectively be customised so that people don't see needless options for them (of course there is an admin overhead to that).
We took one of the templates and worked off it as a basis. I personally found that minimizing everything in terms of menus (so you basically have 3-4 buttons) made the site look slicker -- took people a little getting used to, but it's good. My main goal with RT is to avoid too much customisation, as we don't have an army of developers, nor do we have the time, to maintain something we build ourselves. Our non-IT head of marketing was able to easily get to grips with the options for display, so that's a positive. I don't think RT offers a vast range of different looks, but I personally have found it exceptional value for money and a much, much better look for our Confluence with the lightest possible of touch from IT. The only CSS I employed was headers to follow our in-house style (would have been nice to have that in the UI, as I feel headers are part of a 'Theme'), and one bit of CSS to hide the space where the site switcher / icon lives (have raised that to their dev team as a future fix).
With each passing day we are tweaking how we present our Intranet -- and the RT plugin is great for this. I actually had a call with some of the team at RefinedTheme a month or so ago, and they were very helpful in reviewing how I had done things, and suggesting improvements for how to make it better -- that was really useful. I also installed the Refined Toolkit plugin they provide for free, which has some nice UI enhancements when compared to the out-of-the-box Atlassian macros (e.g. the UI Expand is a lot nicer than Expand, and UI Tabs is a really effective way for us to display our Employee directory alphabetised listing (which is done with Linchpin User Profiles).
For us, it has made the firm aware of Confluence -- people are collaborating on pages over emailing (not as often as I'd like, but I can see we are going in the right direction), and not being reliant on someone from IT to be free to sort it out for them.
In short I'm a huge fan and have found that @Support RefinedWiki is very responsive and helpful
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