Container house Sparks, NV

I hate Instagram's GUIs. Shit makes no sense to me. Anyway, go outside! This is rad!

Pics from Sessanta Hollywood. All @jmfaye21 and @camally_69 's pics. I obviously don't know how Instagram works.

Apparently, my mom is a big Maynard fan. So here's a pic dump from the Sessanta show in Hollywood. The pics are all from @jmfaye21 and @camally_69 . #sessanta #tool #toolband #aperfectcircle #puscifer Oh, @jsundurr showed us the new direction we're heading with the house, but we'll talk about that later.

Witness the majesty of Puscifer's Grand Canyon, performed by Puscifer, A Perfect Circle and Primus. That concert was unreal. You can see it on the faces of everyone on stage, whether they were playing or not. They all knew it was a special show. @jmfaye21 @camally_69 #tool #puscifer #sessanta #aperfectcircle

Apologies to the container house crowd. This is important stuff. My dear wife @jmfaye21 took me and our adopted nephew @camally_69 to the Sessanta show at the Hollywood Bowl. She forgot to tell me she got 3rd row center seats. You've seen all the videos of Tool playing Ænema from front and center, but have you seen it from 3rd row, behind two mountainous humans? So my video isn't just just 8 minutes of Maynard. I have 8 minutes of looking at all the great stuff happening around the stage. We have a surprise Tool show. We have Maynard, front and center with Tool. Not sure when that last happened. Danny Carey playing Josh Freese's tiny drum kit. Gunnar Olsen and Herb goofing off on the stair lifts. Carina singing along. The original and current lineup of a perfect circle sitting on the couch watching snd really enjoying the show. Billy Howerdel setting up Adam 's guitar at the start, very fitting. I think less Claypool said it was Primus' first time playing at the Hollywood Bowl. It was my first time at the Hollywood Bowl. This was the first time all three of Maynard's bands played together at one show, on 4/20/2024, on Carina's birthday. And of course, playing Ænema in Hollywood, that's always gonna be popular. #tool #sessanta

OK, folks, it's been a while. I owe you… Some thing. Here's a picture of a horse and a donkey Chisholm and Amigo. Oh, you want an update on the house? I gotcha. We are paused. Long story still long. We got through engineering and we got our stamped plans and plans have been submitted for permit. Our contractor started pricing some stuff like steel, earthwork, concrete, framing, running power, septic, and we started seeing these big ticket items taking big chomps out of the budget, some of these items need to be done regardless of what kind of house we build, but the container – specific items like steel, and framing a house within a house, and those unknown unknowns that we will surely run into during the build, have us to either change the design to use less of everything or to abandon the container house for something different. Since either way we went would require time and money, we chose the "something different" route. We still have the land, we still have the general contractor and we still have our architect, Mr. Jason Durr @jsundurr . Instead of giving Jason the constraint of having to design us a house made out of 40 and 45 foot Legos, we're giving him a blank canvas to draw something unique with some of the cool features we had in the container house design. something one story instead of three. Something built with more traditional methods and materials, but still fitting of this amazing property. Now that we've been working with Jason for a while, he knows the important details we need in this house, like having a putting green on the roof. And the light-well idea that I swiped from an Enes Yilmazer video. Y'all just continue to be patient. Although there may be no more container house, there will be a house. So stick with us and see where this goes next.

We're still waiting for the structural analysis on our build, but this is at least container-related. If I'm not mistaken, This is a reach-stacker and it belongs to the Marines.

Our actual design is still with the structural engineer, so we don't have much to share. So here's another odd idea I had for a paint scheme. Each side is a different southwestern-ish color, to change the look of the house throughout the day and throughout the year. The yellow would have faced west to catch the setting sun.

I will spare you all the other iterations and crazy designs we came up with along the way. This is what we're going to build. It's a 2,600 sq ft, 2 story house made from six or seven 40' and 45' containers, as well as a few 20' containers including one standing on end. We found an architect and a contractor who both enjoy the uniqueness of working with shipping containers. As we get farther into the build, you'll see some fun features that reflect all the personalities involved. #shippingcontainer #containerhouse

I suspect that when it's time to actually buy the containers to build our house, we shouldn't have a problem finding any. This is the Port of Long Beach. They are buried in shipping containers! Most CA ports are backed-up, and it's more likely that our containers will come from Oakland.

It might be a little early to start showing our home furnishings, but this tissue box holder is too cool not to share.

When we got a chance to do some research on the mystery property, we saw that it was 40 acres and had an amazing view including the east side of the Sierras, downtown Reno and Mt Rose. The property has some terrain, some wild horses that visit daily, deer, pronghorn and a bunch of other critters. It's a unique property and it's going to need a unique house.