@bschell: For the design similar to your reference site, you need to choose Catch Evolution Theme http://catchthemes.com/themes/catch-evolution/ which is similar in terms of header and sidebar. But for 2 columns post you might need to hire customizer to work on it. We don’t have that option at this stage. We will add this in our further updates. Will send it to our developer team. But sorry no option at this stage.
Also you can add post and sidebar in hompepage from “Appearance => Theme Options => Homepage Settings => Homepage / FrontPage Settings” and check to “Enable Latest Posts or Page” and save changes.
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