Lego Room

[Sisco]

As you may or may not know, I'm moving to a bigger house over the next few weeks.....

AND GETTING A WHOLE ROOM JUST FOR LEGO!!!

Anyways... I need ideas for decor and arrangement. I have a 5 deep-shelved,erm, shelf, and a 4 foot plastic table. The room is square and big. What should I have for legoesque decor? How should I display my collection? How should I set up my work station?

Any advice is welcome.

[Corvus]

You lucky *BLEEEEEEEEEEEEEP*.

Shelves are beautiful. Very beautiful. I never have enough, and I can't seem to find the kind I use at Ikea any more...

Definately have a good use of your table. I'm currently asking for a new, modular one for christmas, we'll see how it goes.

[Izzy]

Lego posters are always good, and posters or pictures from you favourite movies/games/tv shows that might inspire some awesome MOCs is always a help too.

I am also lucky enough to have a room just for my Lego too, I have a few HP & Pirates posters and lots of floor space to spread out all my pieces to MOC.

[Corvus]

Lego posters are always good, and posters or pictures from you favourite movies/games/tv shows that might inspire some awesome MOCs is always a help too.

A simple solution might be to cut the tops off of a few favorite boxes. I've been saving a few up, and I've been trying to decide three that I think either look cool/are a nice, rare old set.

[CP5670]

I used to have a room for Lego. Now I have my entire apartment for it. I used to have several of the old Mania magazine posters on the walls back then, but haven't done any wall decorations here.

As for display shelves, I use several packs of these (there is also a 24" deep version) and put cardboard poster boards over them to cover up the holes. This solution is far from perfect, but I have yet to find anything else that provides this much space for the price.

Edited December 8, 2009 by CP5670

[Stash2Sixx]

Make sure you have a well lit room. Second, a stereo is proper decor for your room; can't build without tunes! Pick out a light color of paint for the walls. Try to keep shelves to only one area because you are going to need more and more and more drawers to sort all of your LEGO as you continue to build.

Those are just a few things I have learned from experience.

[Tom Bricks]

I Just got a room too, and I put up all the instruction booklets I have saved over the years. (the whole thing, I didn't want to use only the cover, I would suggest thumb tacks) I now have 3 shelves and 4 tables, 2.5 for display and the rest for building.

[Piranha]

A Large Table would be nice, nothing cheap, glass top maybe?

That way you have plenty of room to build and spread out sets.

Also maybe a desk instead, Office Max usually has some nice ones, Sharper Image ones I like best.

Various shelving structures too, for displaying sets. For rare stuff maybe a plexi glass display box?

Wal-mart or Target usually has nice units with shelves.

Plexiglass boxes are sold online for Hobby stuff.

Have fun!

[Big Cam]

Make sure you have a well lit room. Second, a stereo is proper decor for your room; can't build without tunes! Pick out a light color of paint for the walls. Try to keep shelves to only one area because you are going to need more and more and more drawers to sort all of your LEGO as you continue to build.

Those are just a few things I have learned from experience.

Plus a beer fridge. I'd recommend one.

Plus I agree with the glass table, it makes building really easy. It just seems easier to find pieces.

[tedbeard]

Someday, when I am lucky enough to have a LEGO room I want to use some of these sort of foam rubber mats for wall(s) and maybe even flooring:

I have something like this on the cement floor of my crawl space (which holds the bulk of my brick) and it makes crawling around much easier.

[MrTools]

Some pictures of you favorite MOCs by other people for inspiration, a big desk to work at nice shelfs the works, just depending on the space you have.

Edit-silly spelling error.

You could also make a mosaic with Lego to hang on the wall.

Edited December 12, 2009 by MrTools

[Follows Closely]

You could also make a mosaic with Lego to hang on the wall.

This is what I was thinking.

[Grrr]

Some big shelves are good for mocs and boxes and storage. I have about 10m of shelving 60 cm deep along 2 of the walls, floor to ceiling.

Then, on another wall I have small 'shelve's. A few brackets like this: http://www.hafele.co.uk/Hafele35a1/images/...0.28.502P1.JPEG and some 10cm wide shelves, and you have the perfect place to store lego boxes, small mocs, and small store containers too (I use 1Litre clear plastic boxes that fit nicely.