Is there a way to change the color or make the 'band' clear on the ios 7 screen?

On the new IOS 7, The band color at the bottom of the screen is a ugly color and I don't like it. Is there a way to change the color of it or make it clear? I really regret changing my iphone to ios 7 just for this reason. And is there a way to change the color of the texting messages?