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

omnium

Aye, good plan....

560Heliport

Yay, we did it!

SumoLego

I have to admit, I completely forgot about that!  But I'm happy it passed.

vwong19

My 8 year old went into the toy room earlier this week and played with the Lego collectible minifigures that were on display. Oh, the mayhem! Now I’m dusting areas that haven’t been dusted in years. 

Astrobricks

^ Looks like I imagine the end of every episode of Game of Thrones to look like.

truck730

Off with their heads......the minifigs not the kids ...although

Baby_Yoda

^ Not just the men, but the women, and the children, too.

ersi

Update of my collection :) Finally I have all sealed brickheadz that were released except emmet and wildstyle but I will be swapping built ones for sealed soon. Also Im a bit sad that my showcase cannot hold all of them.. 

CCC

vwong19 said:

My 8 year old went into the toy room earlier this week and played with the Lego collectible minifigures that were on display. Oh, the mayhem! Now I’m dusting areas that haven’t been dusted in years. 

Did you dust his pants?

Do people still use that expression? One of my dad's American friends used to say that to us when we messed about with his stuff.

ersi

@thehoarder
thank you very much, I have built it with my father. I would rebuild to fit all of them, but I have already glass door and glass shelves made and they did cost alot.

bluedragon

This is not about what I have done but what I plan to do.  This weekend I had to pack all the Lego after pulling sets and parts from multiple locations.

I went from a near divorce experience, when my wife finally realized the size of the collection, to her agreeing to a Lego room in our new house!

We are moving from a NYC apt to a house in south CA.  Local LEGO store will be Westfield Topanga.  Any good?

DeCommander96

When I moved in with my gf, I bought this big glass cabinet with 5 shelves from ikea and it still wasn't enough lol. I ended up putting 8 wooden floating shelves up as well. In total that's 13 shelves and that's just my marvel collection.....

Wicksy80

Thanks @brickedin for helping complete the set. 

brickedin

looks great

KungFuKenny

My lovely wife was out antique (junk? castoffs?) shopping when she found these vintage letters from old retail store signs... ever thoughtful she collected enough to help point the way to my upstairs Lego Lair...


Non American forum users may appreciate that she was careful to omit an “S” at the end...I think I have taught her well! 😀

Brickfan50

I envy you! You’re blessed!

Astrobricks

KungFuKenny said:

My lovely wife was out antique (junk? castoffs?) shopping when she found these vintage letters from old retail store signs... ever thoughtful she collected enough to help point the way to my upstairs Lego Lair...


Non American forum users may appreciate that she was careful to omit an “S” at the end...I think I have taught her well! 😀

Non American? Of what are you accusing us (and yourself) sir?!

KungFuKenny

Astrobricks said:

 Non American? Of what are you accusing us (and yourself) sir?!

She is not exactly an AFOL and will commonly tell me to “go play with your Legos”... 

Astrobricks

KungFuKenny said:

Astrobricks said:

 Non American? Of what are you accusing us (and yourself) sir?!

She is not exactly an AFOL and will commonly tell me to “go play with your Legos”... 

What I was getting at was your subtle, and perhaps unintentional, suggestion that Americans would not appreciate the difference :)

560Heliport

..."Huh? Why are you mad? You told me to go play with my Legos! You didn't tell me when to stop!"

KungFuKenny

dutchlegofan50 said:

I envy you! You’re blessed!

I agree- my wife is pretty understanding— as kids have slowly moved out I have been allowed to take over more and more of the upstairs room until it is now 100% devoted to Lego (and Xbox) 

560Heliport said:

..."Huh? Why are you mad? You told me to go play with my Legos! You didn't tell me when to stop!"

The key is finding the spouse a hobby that keeps them equally occupied... since Lego was not her thing I introduced her to British period dramas and that was that! 😄

Fizyx

KungFuKenny said:

dutchlegofan50 said:

I envy you! You’re blessed!

I agree- my wife is pretty understanding— as kids have slowly moved out I have been allowed to take over more and more of the upstairs room until it is now 100% devoted to Lego (and Xbox) 

560Heliport said:

..."Huh? Why are you mad? You told me to go play with my Legos! You didn't tell me when to stop!"

The key is finding the spouse a hobby that keeps them equally occupied... since Lego was not her thing I introduced her to British period dramas and that was that! 😄

It's all good until she runs out of British period dramas and realizes just how much LEGO you snuck in under her distracted nose!

Muftak1

My wife has, occasionally, helped with the building of the modulars (I do ground floor and she does first...)

On one occasion, while I was building the Temple of Airjitsu, she put the Modular Bank together - she even made sue all the ingots on the outside were facing the same way like on the box!

GeordiePaul

Our days of renting will be over on October 15th, and I’ve been allocated a dedicated Lego room for the first time since coming out of my dark ages. I’m hoping to post some updates here over the next few months :-D

lkliment2

Wouldn’t really call it an “accommodation” but don’t know where else to share. Basement flooded over the weekend, only sets that really could have been affected were sealed ones unfortunately. 

Bludchylde1

Nature was just telling you to open those sets up :D

SumoLego

I've had that happen - power went out and about one inch of water crept it's way around my basement.  Thankfully, the only casualty was an already-open Assembly Square.

Astrobricks

Lego sets should not be sitting on the floor in a basement. <shudder>

MCNwakeboard

I had a leak from a water heater once and had some box damage. It was on the docket for building and that was the catalyst to get it done. 

lkliment2

How bad was the box damage? Would you go so far as to say it ruined them? The reason they were still sealed is because I’m looking for a new location to store them. Thankfully there’s home insurance.

lkliment2

Most of them were not especially valuable for resale purposes but were altogether some of my most expensive sets. Just very upsetting. 

pxchris

That's a really rough blow @lkliment2!

GeordiePaul

Does anyone know if there’s a thread that covers what tables people use to build their Lego cities in their dedicated rooms? I assume I’ll either end up using some kind of IKEA table, or make my own (because I’ll also have my own workshop too).

SumoLego

I found that precise size of a stud-scale table made a pre-made table impractical.  I also made my tables slights lower to made on-table building much easier.

MaffyD

The office is now my office. It's teeny-weeny, but I can put what I can fit into it. Currently working out how small my computer set up can be so I can devote as much space as possible to Lego and Transformers. After that, it's Ikea-time.

stefxan

I have 2 rooms right now. One is my stockroom for sealed boxes and minifigures. The other one is for maintaining my parts-shop. Collection is growing each day...

GeordiePaul

@SumoLego Making my own tables to exactly fit a certain area of baseplates definitely crossed my mind. Unless someone knows of a flatpack table from somewhere like IKEA that is an exact (or very close) match then it looks like I’ll be a regular at Home Depot for the next few months!

datsunrobbie

IKEA put out a press release in June about upcoming BYGGLEK line in collaboration with Lego. No indications about what will be made, but I'm holding off on any major purchases for Lego furniture until I see what they come up with.

GeordiePaul

I’d forgotten about that. I assumed it was relating to more child orientated stuff for some reason, such as play tables or storage bins, but you never know. I’ll see if I can find out more about it.

Th1nDiesel

GeordiePaul said:

@SumoLego Making my own tables to exactly fit a certain area of baseplates definitely crossed my mind. Unless someone knows of a flatpack table from somewhere like IKEA that is an exact (or very close) match then it looks like I’ll be a regular at Home Depot for the next few months!

The 150x75 Linnmon table tops from IKEA are just shy of 6x3 baseplates (32x32). I got around the difference by pulling the tables away from the wall slightly and filling the gap with a piece of wood.

tommyboa

It used to sit in the corner of the play room, this was 6 years ago before we moved to Japan. Now that the minions are older, I don't know where they will end up

Blockwork_Orange

My collection/accumulation has been slowly taking over my home for a number of years now and I had been looking for an affordable way to expand my storage space in a way that I could both enjoy and protect the collection.  I had been thinking about something along the lines of an office/construction trailer, but hadn't found anything suitable, close enough to bring home, or priced reasonably.    To make matters worse, my parent's home was sold this summer and I was going to lose a lot of my extra storage space there as well.

Fortunately I found this from a local company that deals in new and used commercial trailers and shipping containers.  It is a 36 foot long insulated trailer that had been modified by a film production company for storing and hauling their film equipment.  In addition to being fully  insulated it included the built in heavy duty shelving and work tables shown.  It is also fully wired with a 200 amp electrical panel to which allows for a full set of lighting, 2 heaters, an air conditioner and numerous receptacles along both sides of the trailer.  There is a second wall with a regular walk in door behind the roll-up door at the back of the trailer.  I have also added heavy duty plastic shelving racks underneath the steel racking.   It had been wired to operate off generator power and I plan to have it hardwired with permanent power soon.  For now it has an external plug for "shore power" which allows me to have lighting and a couple of plugs running off of an extension cord.

I've been spending the past months slowly moving my collection to its new home, but still have a lot of work to do.  Anyone who has had to move a large collection can appreciate the task.  As sets are moved in I'm trying to keep them sorted and cataloged so I can be more organized hopefully find them again later.   It has also given me a good chance to identify surplus sets that I can get rid of.  I've got about 1/3 of the trailer full so far and still a lot of work to go.  

The cost for the trailer, delivered on site was approximately $5000 CDN. About $250 for the gravel on the site and  I spent another $500 or so on the additional shelving.  

SumoLego

If I showed up with one of those, my wife would kill me.  Probably seal me up with all of the LEGO, and then roll it into a strip mine.

dmcc0

^a few strategically placed plants, shrubs etc and she might not notice.

CCC

Blockwork_Orange said:

What a fantastic project. Given it is stand alone and relatively simple on the outside, I hope your LEGO room will contain a MOC of itself.

Blockwork_Orange

My wife was if favour of my buying the trailer for my hobby/obsession.  She is happy to have more room in the house and to have the guest bedroom back.  And once everything is moved, the home office, upstairs hallway, part of the living room and part of the basement back. :.....  and maybe a couple of other closets as well.

I live on a large rural property so the trailer isn't really that noticeable tucked in behind the shed that can be seen in the background. 

dmcc0

^ so you'll be filling the shed with LEGO too then?

mdtvandy

Has anyone found a cart or shelving unit for use with the Akro-Mils cabinets? I'm looking for a way to have them either hidden or able to move around easily.

brickventures

The recently built Destiny's Bounty is now proudly displayed atop the bookshelf, joining the other Asian inspired sets