How to set an alternative layout as a homepage
When you install the theme the default homepage design consists of the blog feed with sidebar, but you can create a page with an alternative layouts.
The layouts are: ‘Full Width Homepage (blog archive)’, ‘Grid Homepage (blog archive)’ or ‘Grid Full Width Homepage (blog archive)’ — have a look at the demo sites to see these in action).
To use one of these layouts as homepage create a new Page and under ‘Page Attributes’ or ‘Template’ to select the template you wish to use and save and publish this page.
To activate this page as your homepage go to Settings > Reading and choose ‘A static page’ option for ‘Frontpage / main homepage display’. Then choose the page that will be used for your Frontpage from the dropdown.