Custom home page

Hi,

I am currently trying to create a home page with this theme.

I don’t want the latest blog posts to be on the side bar, I want it to be as it would be if I had selected “latest posts”. I have added the content view plugin and it is closer to what I want but still not quite there yet. I would like to change the font size/style, positioning of title etc. but I am unable to do this. Ideally, would like blog posts to be in a vertical format rather than a grid or the most recent post as a main post then the other recent posts in chronological order in a grid format such as https://demo.wpzoom.com/?theme=foodica

Can anyone help?

Thank you!