When clicking on submit from my searchform it takes me to home.php

As noted above, when I tried that code I ended up on a server level 404 page. If this is meant to be a standard WordPress search ( ia m not sure if it is) you need to be using name="s" and not name="q". WordPress uses the s GET variable for a search.

The following submits to whatever page I specify in my install:

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo site_url('sample-page')?>">
    <label for="s" class="assistive-text"><?php _e( 'Search', 'lart' ); ?></label>
    <input type="text" class="field" name="q" id="s" placeholder="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Search', 'lart' ); ?>" />
    <input type="submit" class="submit" name="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Search', 'lart' ); ?>" />
</form>

So does this:

<form method="get" id="searchform" action="<?php echo get_permalink(2); ?>">
    <label for="s" class="assistive-text"><?php _e( 'Search', 'lart' ); ?></label>
    <input type="text" class="field" name="q" id="s" placeholder="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Search', 'lart' ); ?>" />
    <input type="submit" class="submit" name="submit" id="searchsubmit" value="<?php esc_attr_e( 'Search', 'lart' ); ?>" />
</form>

Per comments above, searchpage.php is the WordPress search page. If you want that page to process your form, you need to use name="s" and not name="q". That is the trigger for WordPress to search. You can then hook to pre_get_posts to alter how the query is processed.

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