I used the template with minimal customisation. The biggest modificiation was to move the module position "full-width" to a higher place in the template to enable me to put more content under a full-width slide show.
The reason I used Slideshow Lite on the homepage instead of my preferred Roksproket is because I could not (at the time) remove the pause effect on hover in roksprocket. This is a problem when the slideshow is so much of the page.
I think the website is a bit dark on some pages perhaps. Also I think more work could be done to bring the elements together, but it the time allocated was pretty small.
I agree with your analysis, the page is a bit dark but over-all i like the site. Maybe you could change the black bottom background and make box4 something like this:
background: rgba(39, 39, 39, 0.85);
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