I've been searching for a while and I am only finding answers DevDocs that tell me that in order to modify the column layout for the search results page is to change the xml found in app/design/frontend/<Vendor>/<theme>/Magento_CatalogSearch/layout/
My problem is that my folder structure for my theme does not have a layout folder. Seems like remember seeing the layout setting in the backend config somewhere, but cannot seem to find it there either.
Any search that I perform on my website is resulting in a 4-column layout and I only want a 1-column layout or maybe 2-column with left sidebar. ...all the same for advanced search.
I am using Magento 2.1.4.
magento\vendor\magento\module-catalog-search\view\frontend\layout\catalogsearch_result_index.xml
& Changelayout="2columns-left"
tolayout="1column"