{"id":5421,"date":"2019-04-24T19:35:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/?p=5421"},"modified":"2020-10-30T14:56:35","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T20:56:35","slug":"closet-architect-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/?p=5421","title":{"rendered":"Closet architect? Maybe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Way, way back in my formative years I dreamed of becoming an architect. Even in my preteen years I was always drawing some house design, although it was with pencil and paper back then. I even built what I called a <em>light table<\/em> for tracing. Basically a sheet of glass with a light under it. Gradually I moved to CAD once I got my first computer. It was always more of a hobby because my parents couldn&#8217;t afford to send me to college or university to get a degree.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>My passion has continued my whole life. My computer is packed with all kinds of projects, from home design to commercial projects. Years ago, back in Ecuador primarily, I got really interested in shipping container homes. The designs had really progressed and there were literally thousands of used containers sitting in the port in Guayaquil. Now I&#8217;m here in Mexico and wondering if shipping container homes are a possibility for Lakeside? When I wander around Google Earth I see all kinds of empty land that could be put to good use with these types of homes. I&#8217;m not sure where the used shipping containers would be here or if they are the newer height ones, but worth checking out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my latest design &#8211;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Harbinger_redesign_final.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5422\" src=\"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Harbinger_redesign_final.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1065\" height=\"826\" srcset=\"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Harbinger_redesign_final.jpg 1065w, https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Harbinger_redesign_final-600x465.jpg 600w, https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Harbinger_redesign_final-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Harbinger_redesign_final-768x596.jpg 768w, https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Harbinger_redesign_final-1024x794.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1065px) 100vw, 1065px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Way, way back in my formative years I dreamed of becoming an architect. Even in my preteen years I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13108,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shipping-container-homes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/architect.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5423,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5421\/revisions\/5423"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/garycjones.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}