What Have You Done To Your House To Accommodate Your Lego Hobby/Addiction?

Farmer_John

I'm not trying to slam those with stacks of Lego boxes...it's just that these days I try to avoid documenting my stacks of boxes.

MorkMan

Before. 

After. 
222 sets boxed up and ready to be let go. It’s just time. 

littletoki

Hi all - it's been a very long time since I've been around on the forums. Busy with work, new house and illnesses. Not sure if anyone still remembers me.

But here's the new and improved Lego room! LOL.



Storage of all the loose Lego which is not part of any set:

SumoLego

Cats and Dogs living together!?!?  Mayham!  Mayham!!!

(Awesome room - I am very envious!)

Baby_Yoda

^^ Wow, that room is snazzy!

560Heliport

@SumoLego Dogs? Huh? I don't see it.

SumoLego

Ha!  I thought that first cat was a beagle.
Geez, I need my eyes checked.

560Heliport

Well, I just "liked" you yet again, dammit! At least it's not my eyes.

560Heliport

And thank you, @littletoki, for me making me drool enviously, and providing us with something to laugh about! I just worked 14 hours; laughter is good.

Keilup

littletoki said:

But here's the new and improved Lego room! LOL.

Storage of all the loose Lego which is not part of any set:

Wow!  That is a nice looking room.  Everything is so organized and neat.  I can only hope mine will look that way one day.  Maybe when the kids are out of the house, I'm retired, and the honey do list is caught up a bit.  Yeeeeeeah.  It's going to be a while.  But I can dream and try.

Heck of a Star Wars collection (as I'm eyeing the beauty of the Super Star Destroyer I'll never own.)

I noticed you went the route of snap close containers for all your loose bricks.  Does it work well when you have to open a bunch to sort out new stuff or pull stuff to build?

Baby_Yoda

Out of curiosity I went and looked at your last post for a before and after comparison of your room. I now have something to aspire to when I can afford my own Lego room.

MrShinyAndNew

littletoki said:

Hi all - it's been a very long time since I've been around on the forums. Busy with work, new house and illnesses. Not sure if anyone still remembers me.

But here's the new and improved Lego room! LOL.

Those look like Artbin boxes. What kind of shelves do you use? I've had a hard time finding shelves deep enough.

Paperballpark

SumoLego said:

7)  Finally, those are some substantial balls.

He has balls the size of planets! ;)

sguser

@littletoki

Impressive... Most impressive.... Very neat and tastefully organised. 

Thumbs up!

CCC

Recce said:

560Heliport said:b

It took you three years to add 160K bricks? Slacker! ;)

Have been slowing down due to space issue. Don't think can add much from now onwards.

I can still see some floor. And if you learn to walk sideways through that corridor then you'll find extra space.

560Heliport

^ You've seen my apartment?!?

Recce

CCC said:

Recce said:

560Heliport said:b

It took you three years to add 160K bricks? Slacker! ;)

Have been slowing down due to space issue. Don't think can add much from now onwards.

I can still see some floor. And if you learn to walk sideways through that corridor then you'll find extra space.

Lol, that was actually what I'm thinking. Wife complaining living room no more space so was thinking maybe can squeeze somemore into the toy room.

brianoblivion

littletoki

That room really is something to aspire to. The bins are labelled. The shelves aren't overstuffed with empty boxes. There's space to work and move around. And perhaps the most enviable feature-it's not an unfinished basement. Even the kitties know it's something special.

Boardshorts85

The wife and I agreed that I'd refrain from filling the living room of the new condo with LEGO - but, until we decide on on a furniture solution for the 3rd bedroom/office, the living room bookcase is still working well for me.

(Not pictured - Ninjago City Docks and Old Fishing Store, freshly arrived and awaiting assembly)

SumoLego

Uh, yeah.  There is clearly nothing on those shelves that belongs to your wife.  (Maybe the HP books, but I don't want to be judgy.)

Love the Hardy Boys book.  And I have the top part of Ninjago City in a sandwich bag as well.  

Boardshorts85

SumoLego said:

Uh, yeah.  There is clearly nothing on those shelves that belongs to your wife.  (Maybe the HP books, but I don't want to be judgy.)

Love the Hardy Boys book.  And I have the top part of Ninjago City in a sandwich bag as well.  

I'm pretty sure there's "The Fault in Our Stars" and 101 Dalmations on Blu-ray in there, so she's got some stuff...  And the pink hippo bookend.

The Hardy Boys book (nice pixel peeping by the way) is actually hollowed out - got it as part of an invitation to a birthday party and kept it.  The NC-in-a-sandwich-bag is a moving casualty that I haven't yet gotten around to addressing.

MorkMan

pixel-peeping - i love that term!

Baby_Yoda

SumoLego said:

And I have the top part of Ninjago City in a sandwich bag as well.  

That sandwich bag... so elusive, and yet hidden in plain sight...

TheOriginalSimonB

As much as I love the idea of rainbow-ordered books, I can't bring myself to split up authors or series...  

CCC

Books sorted by: Author, no. Subject, no. Colour, yes!

SprinkleOtter

Boardshorts85 said:

SumoLego said:

Uh, yeah.  There is clearly nothing on those shelves that belongs to your wife.  (Maybe the HP books, but I don't want to be judgy.)

Love the Hardy Boys book.  And I have the top part of Ninjago City in a sandwich bag as well.  

I'm pretty sure there's "The Fault in Our Stars" and 101 Dalmations on Blu-ray in there, so she's got some stuff...  And the pink hippo bookend.

The Hardy Boys book (nice pixel peeping by the way) is actually hollowed out - got it as part of an invitation to a birthday party and kept it.  The NC-in-a-sandwich-bag is a moving casualty that I haven't yet gotten around to addressing.

What, guys can't like cheesy-ass movies? ;)

SumoLego

Does the Resident Evil franchise count? 
(It's really a touching love story.)

Boardshorts85

CCC said:

Books sorted by: Author, no. Subject, no. Colour, yes!

Architect life... everything gets designed.  Once upon a time they were arranged by height.  Last year I shifted to color.

KLOKRIECHER

Trying to organise my collection.:

Switchfoot55

^I envy your trust in a $9 end table stacked three high. 

...your collection isn't too bad either ;) 

truck730

Your dusting regime must be exhausting but I'd love that problem, sometimes I feel lego should be paying us especially anyone with 300+ and with 80% of that big sets ,like music royalties 

Th1nDiesel

This is my garage conversion that we had done over the summer (this is the first time it's been tidy enough to take pictures). 
The front half of the room has a sofa and TV for the kids (and a handful of my old games consoles!) and the cupboard on the left of the top picture houses the washing machine, tumble dryer and boiler. 
The back half is my Lego area. The desk is used for building and display but as my modular collection grows (I have two still to build plus the Ninjago Docks) I may have to return to building at the dining table!
I did have two Detolf cabinets but sadly there is only room for one; the other is in the dining room. This one did have the Death Star on top of it until vibration from the washing machine shook it onto the floor. 😪

Wicksy80

Our house is just over a month away from being complete. This is the mezzanine we managed to get into the bungalow especially for the Lego City play and display area. Can’t wait to start filling it up! It kills me that most of the Lego is sitting in storage!

Legolis

^ Wow would love to have a space that size for Lego. We're officially a year into collecting and have decided it needs a dedicated space rather than a bit in each room. We're going to carve off a small section of our bedroom upstairs. Can't wait to get planning it, there's some great inspiration in here.

Astrobricks

 ^^ That didn’t happen overnight. We all start somewhere :)

Basty

Recce said:

Here's an updated photo of the mess in my house taken less than an hour ago. Can spot the difference from the photo posted 3 years back? :))



Basically the count had increased from around 750K bricks worth of sets to now 910K.

Is there 3 of each set? 

CaptainRogers

I got some tables from Ikea back around Christmas time. I finally have some good table space for my city and some parts storage.

SumoLego

So much display space wasted on those CDs. 

Unrelated thought - After burning and cataloging my (childrens) DVD collection, I have 1000 or so DVDs safely packed away in bankers boxes in my non-climate controlled Garagio.  Best thing I ever did!

@CaptainRogers - looks like you need a bunch more roadplates.  I've been stocking up since they've been on sale.

CaptainRogers

@SumoLego lego is my current main hobby, but not my only and not my first. I think of it not as wasted space, but just that I clearly need more shelving. 😁

Also I recently got 4 copies of #7280 since my local Target has them half off. I might go get the remaining ones, the more I think about it.

SumoLego

CaptainRogers said:

...I think of it not as wasted space, but just that I clearly need more shelving. 😁...

These sound like excuses!  Digitize those CDs, and clear some room for a vintage Castle, Pirate and Space collection!!  Monochrome figures!!! Vignette mini-builds for each Marvel superhero!!!!

CaptainRogers

Digitized copies can't be autographed!

CaptainRogers

@SumoLego though your display ideas do sound better than my 'Superhero drawer' organization at the moment. At least I've got a few shelves being useful.

SumoLego

CaptainRogers said:

Digitized copies can't be autographed!

Huh.  Got me there.  Frames on the wall for those... the rest in a lightless box!