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

autolycus

eMJeeNL said:

WesterBricks said:

autolycus said:

2 10’ shelves with enough clearance on the upper one for Town Hall will do.

That’s basically what I’ve done here, two 93 inch shelves spaced appropriately to place the Town Hall on the top shelf, whenever I am lucky enough to find one.

What will happen if the Modular Construction Site arrives? Me thinks that's quite a bit higher than TH? 

Oh, and do we count it as a Modular?! (yes I went there...)

That one's much easier to dismiss than Market Street. It's kind of mostly technically a Bricklink set rather than a Lego one.

And yes, Lego officially considers Market Street part of its modular line and it is in that room at their museum and Jamie Berard discusses the set in his historical review of the modular line. Because of that, I am 99% sure that my modular collection will always be 2 short of completion (CC and MS). I have all of the retired modulars after MS.

Sethro3

I have found I quit building the official modulars since everyone has them. So I build unique modulars. Still takes up a ton of space though... so multiple shelves are needed.

WesterBricks

I like to look at them in one nice long line, but they are also an investment for me. Someday I'll sell my collection and take the family to Disney World.

WesterBricks

I also build custom modulars, but only in Studio.

lessjunkfood

WesterBricks said:

I also build custom modulars, but only in Studio.

This is inspiring to me, thanks for sharing! Bookmarking this for reference once we move and I have building space beyond the dinner table.

Bumblepants

Sethro3 said:

I have found I quit building the official modulars since everyone has them. So I build unique modulars. Still takes up a ton of space though... so multiple shelves are needed.

I did exactly this and moved to Ninjago City mocs. It allows for a lot more creativity and use of wacky colors and parts. The only modular I still have is the Cinema as I was thinking of converting it. 

Marshallmario

@WesterBricks, I like the building on the left end with 1908 in the brick. Reminds me of a Ben Franklin 5 & 10 cent store my grandma used to take me to 60 years ago. Small town in the U.P. named Neguanne.

Steve_J_OM

Steve_J_OM said:

Posted a couple of pages back about finally buying a house, and fulfilling my long awaited dream of having a LEGO room. Moved in just before Christmas, so the project starts in earnest now.

This is my blank canvas (with a tiny fraction of my collection, which came with me from my last place). Suffice to say, IKEA will be getting a lot of my money in the next couple of months...

Look forward to sharing updates!

9 months on the room is really starting to take shape :) 

Switchfoot55

^Your vertical shelf idea is exactly what I've been contemplating for my SW Helmet collection once I get settled into my new place. Seeing it like this may officially make up my mind about moving forward with it! 

Steve_J_OM

Oh cool :) I'll admit they were meant to be a placeholder; I have some two-tier podiums from WickedBrick coming (eventually...) that are made for the DETOLF unit, and that's where I was planning to put them. But they do look pretty good on the LACK shelf.

That said, I also experimented with the diorama sets on the shelf and it's like they were made for it! Nice to have options :)

Glad I could help, though! 

lessjunkfood

We recently moved, below is the Lego display in the old house’s loft area. First pic is our arrangement of Ikea Besta cabinets in 2015, two months after moving in. We thought the zigzag pattern helped avoid straight-line monotony; the downside was that our cats could leap up to that far left one and wreak havoc. 

The second pic is earlier this year before we started packing stuff to show the house and eventually move. That far left cabinet got moved to a different wall & we added two more tall cabinets (and a LOT more sets!). And that zigzag pattern turned out to be the perfect clearance for the Disney castle!

Haven’t set anything up in the new house yet, I think I may rotate displays - this winter I’m planning to get out the old parts and build some classic castle, town & space!

CCC

Are they brick (plate+tile) built seats?

lessjunkfood

CCC said:

Are they brick (plate+tile) built seats?

Ha ha, would take a lot of elements! Those are sort of vinyl cushions with magnets embedded at the corners, so that they can be configured into houses, tunnels, rocket ships etc. Hard to see in the stack but there are triangles, squares, rectangles and arches. It was a kickstarter my wife found called the Fort, got them about a year ago. 

daniellesa

I recently moved and managed to acquire an Lego room, which is currently a box room as we're still unpacking. I'm looking for ideas on how to display stuff. I have about 321 sets and I was thinking of having a table in the middle of the room with the modulars and the railway, some of the 3 in 1 creator sets, while the boxes go around the walls, with some sort of shelving above to accommodate sets that won't go on the main table. I have part of my architecture collection in my home office.  Its a blank canvas at the moment, so any suggestions would be welcome. My collection is mostly City, Ninjago, Star Wars, Creator, Ideas, Icons, Architecture.

I can't screw anything into the walls, as its rental.

WesterBricks

daniellesa said:

I recently moved and managed to acquire an Lego room

And the townspeople rejoiced!

daniellesa said:

I can't screw anything into the walls, as its rental.

And the townspeople wept.

WesterBricks

Ok guys, this is your opportunity to buy a house in Wisconsin that is already decked out for the Lego life.

As seen on Zillow Gone Wild: https://bit.ly/LEGOhouseWI

mtpelepele

Is it worth $250,000 just for the bricks in the backsplash?

Astrobricks

@Marshallmario, was that your house? 😉

Blockwork_Orange

I wonder if it is up for sale as part of a divorce settlement! ;)

Djblythe05

Are all house prices that cheap in the states? 

Astrobricks

Djblythe05 said:

Are all house prices that cheap in the states? 

Hell no.

Marshallmario

@Astrobricks...sadly not my house but only about an hours drive from mine. Maybe they will have an open house!

daniellesa

I love the dedication of that lego house, even down to the colour themes of the other rooms.

I do like the floating containers, although I'm in awe of how they manage to bear the weight of the sets, as some of them are quite heavy, as I'm used to hauling the boxes downstairs for building and moving, then hauling the built sets upstairs for display. Fortunately my new lego room is on the ground floor, so no transportation is now required.

Hopefully we'll be at the point where there's nothing but lego boxes in said room soon. Just a few more things to clear. There's no inbuilt storage in this place, so the other box room is the ensuite next to the lego room. This place has three baths upstairs and two down, weirdly. It started off as a bungalow, then the owners decided to build up. Its like a Tardis, as you only have the concept of the proper size when you're inside.

sweetness34

Setting up some display cabinets 

arathemis

Liathorpe...gotta love them. I have 2 of those as well.

Vgang

I think we need a I think we might need a new sub-thread called 

What Have You Done To Your House To Accommodate The Eiffel Tower!

lowlead

^...it's just a matter of time before someone wires it up with a couple light bulbs and tops it with a lampshade.

autolycus

The Liatorp look like a great option! I have a Hemnes cabinet that I don't think is available anymore. It's got sliding glass doors with 3 shelves and fits 4 wide with a few inches to spare. I did have to modify Palace Cinema and Fire Brigade to fit them height-wise, but all of the others I've built so far fit fine. It's also got a good top surface for additional display on top. My one wish is that I'd like a little more depth so I could put the cars in front of their modular instead of squeezing them in the extra space to the sides, which is mostly blocked by the door frame.

We have a kitten now. Don't yet know if he's going to be a Lego-toppling jerk. I might be looking to expand my collection of glass-door cabinets...

Brickfan50

arathemis said:

Liathorpe...gotta love them. I have 2 of those as well.

Look what I've got in my Liathorpe since 2016:

BTW: This is the most beautiful book about the tower, published in 2006 by Taschen. Contains all the blueprints. You need deep pockets to acquire it now....

gmonkey76

lowlead said:

^...it's just a matter of time before someone wires it up with a couple light bulbs and tops it with a lampshade.

“After the snap of a few sparks, a quick whiff of ozone, the lamp blazed forth in unparalleled glory.” Seeing the leg lamp aglow, Mr. Parker remarked, “It’s indescribably beautiful! It reminds me of the Fourth of July!”

lowlead

Fra-gee-lay, that must be Italian! =oD

Paperballpark

lowlead said:

^...it's just a matter of time before someone wires it up with a couple light bulbs and tops it with a lampshade.

Beyond the Brick posted on Facebook that it's large enough to replace your Christmas tree with this year...



Merry Christmas! 🎄

Paperballpark

Anyway, today I spent waaaay more on wood for moc storage boxes than I intended, because I made the basic mistake of not asking how much the plywood sheets were, thinking they'd be around the £10 - £12 each mark that they were when I last bought one a year or so ago.

Turns out they're now £42 each 😬 wish I'd asked before I'd got the guy to cut some up for me!

Switchfoot55

^A painful lesson to learn!

nicomio

I have a corner in my room for a models from WH 40K and for lego's ^_^

pxchris

There's been a lot of re-arranging going on in my media/LEGO room over the past month. As I've mentioned elsewhere, our son moved back home at the end of November, requiring that I vacate the spare room so we could turn it back into a bedroom.
Well, with that I decided it was time to gain some more display space in the main room which I display my LEGO, which is also our media room.
I added a couple of IKEA Billy bookcases which serve nicely to display quite a few of my Pirates ships. The second shelf currently houses all of my Western sets as well as the bulk of my Pirates sets.

Across the room I have my two 4x3 Kallax units, on top of which is my Pirates display of 1989-91 sets as well as the rest of the ships that don't fit on the bookcase.
(You'll notice there is an empty spot on the bottom of the ships bookshelf... that's being reserved for something special to come later.)

I have additionally started to actually get my garage setup in a way where I have a bit of a LEGO nook out there for both storage and for building. That's starting to come together nicely (didn't take a picture of that area).

All-in-all, even though I lost a room, I'm pleased with how everything else has come together.

Of course, as you can see, I'm mostly full up again, meaning that I'll have new challenges before long. hahaha

PJ76uk

@pxchris love the parrot collection at the top - especially the brickbuilt version! Very jealous of your collection but keep the photos coming! I'm sure I'm not the only bricksetter who takes vicarious pleasure from seeing your set photos!

Lo1sJess

Agreed

pxchris

PJ76uk said:

@pxchris love the parrot collection at the top - especially the brickbuilt version! Very jealous of your collection but keep the photos coming! I'm sure I'm not the only bricksetter who takes vicarious pleasure from seeing your set photos!

Lo1sJess said:

Agreed

Thank you both!
I will endeavor to keep them coming!

As for the parrots... they're absolutely one of my favorite parts of the collection!


I made a seek & find challenge for them at my convention display earlier this year.


The brick built version is actually a model with instructions that was in an old 1992 issue of Brick Kicks magazine.

PJ76uk

pxchris said:

The brick built version is actually a model with instructions that was in an old 1992 issue of Brick Kicks magazine.

I vaguely recall a post on that in the forum.

Thanks for more pics of the parrots! Like the idea of your seem and fine challenge, must've been great fun for the participants 👍

SumoLego

Oh, crap!  I need to get some things shipped!

Astrobricks

PJ76uk said:

pxchris said:

The brick built version is actually a model with instructions that was in an old 1992 issue of Brick Kicks magazine.

I vaguely recall a post on that in the forum.

Thanks for more pics of the parrots! Like the idea of your seem and fine challenge, must've been great fun for the participants 👍

Seems fine to me ;-)

PJ76uk

Yeah autocorrect changed my comment from "seek and find". My bad for not proof reading my comment after posting (I usually try to double check for these things)...

Astrobricks

PJ76uk said:

Yeah autocorrect changed my comment from "seek and find". My bad for not proof reading my comment after posting (I usually try to double check for these things)...

What fun would that be? ;-)