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Where on Earth do you keep your Lego collections?
What about you folks who take trading seriously - where do you put it all?
Do you have a dedicated room, the loft, the garage, or just stick it in any
nook and cranny you can find?
Do have your sets on display?
What about train or city layouts? Who has a permanent one?
Whilst I am very keen on Lego, I wouldnt call myself a serious collector. I
am not interested in ensuring I have every set of a specific theme for
example.
Even so, I still wonder where to keep it all (especially display it and keep
large layouts permanent).
I thought about this last night as I had my arm twisted to clear up the
spare room in preparation for visitors. The bed being covered in Lego boxes.
Currently I have boxes all over the place. No one dedicated area. My sons
room is full - there is a whole wardrobe dedicated just to loose bricks and
parts. And he has several large shelves with displays - Star Wars, Pirate,
stations, various.
My Metro Terminus is under the stairs. My Train is in the spare room (stored
in crates, desparate to be permanently displayed). The loft is the
repository for empty boxes, and MISB stuff for future trades, usage, or
whatever.
I have a resonably large house - but its still not enough.
As anyone actually moved just to accomodate their Lego collection?
Does anyone rent space at a warehouse?
Now that would be taking it seriously!
regards
lawrence
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| Having just moved house, I now have to keep mine under the bed and on top of my bookshelves... I've just moved into a small room in a shared house (From a large room in a house with friends), so my space is limited. I don't even have room to display (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Where ever the pieces happen to end up. ;-) (...) I have a shelving unit set aside for my Brickbay store. Other than that, I control the garage. It is my private workshop. (...) Both. Occasionally, I'll find that some Lego has made it's way to (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I don't trade but my collection is serious. I don't keep Packaging, so no problems there. When my brick is sorted, it is in BIG and little Rubbermaid bins, and simular containers, pluse those boxes with the little drawers for nuts and bolts (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| I have the same problem. I am clearing out quite a lot of sets right now to make more space ("we are planning to move in the Spring & and Lego sets on every flat space do not help us sell" - Mrs Arthur). By Christmas I hope only to be left with my (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I actually trade very little but I have gone on a crazy spending spree of late and am buried in MISB sets. I can't seem to find the time to open and sort them. Currently, most of them have found a nice spot in a desk in the basement, but the (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I don't have a particularly large amount of Lego, but I do like to put it away in the cupboard at the end of each session for reasons of tidyness, both of my flat and mind. For this reason, the "working set" of bricks cannot get too large, or (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I have a dedicated play-room about 75% of which is the LEGO collection (about 100,000 bricks these days). This playroom is the proper bedroom of my one-bedroom apartment - a much needed arrangement to keep the cats out of it. (For those of you (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I have a dedicated 1 BR apartment... Check out my (old) pictures at: (URL) need to take some new pictures and update that page. (...) Yup, sets are on display all over the place. Almost every flat surface has something on it. I do have a (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I think I have had some of the largest space wise cities that were set up for long periods of time. Back when I was living in a basement, I had around 250 sq. ft of lego set up, plus bins/boxes of bits. I now have a room of about 150 sq. ft (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| (...) I have a few prized bits here and there upstairs but the bulk of my bulk is in the basement. There is a bit of the basement used for other things but over a thousand square feet are mine, all mine. :-) ++lar (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, lawrence wilkes (<G3EFAL.L26@lugnet.com>) wrote at 13:12:29 (...) I'm trying to sell my house at the moment, and while it's not *because* of the LEGO, the new house *will* have a room dedicated to it. My spare room used to be (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| (...) What else do you do when you run out of space. I started with a 1 bedroomed flat which once that became to full, forced me to move into a three bedroomed house. When this property got to full I was forced to move again into a five bedroomed (...) (24 years ago, 2-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| Gee, after reading all this suddenly I'm happy with my modest collection. Only 100 sets, all sorted in a variety of boxes. They're in a little pile in the attic, and I just take them down at times. I guess my style is a bit like Jennifer's, except I (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| I have Lego all over my house. I live in Bogotá, so my place is very different to all you AFOL. I think I am the only Lego fan in Colombia. I have the big part of my collection in my daughter room (3 years old) in a selfmade bookcase of real bricks (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| lawrence wilkes wrote in message ... (...) My NON LEGO brother and I share the annex to my parents house. The annex consists of three 8'x10' rooms, a bathroom, and loftspace over half. That's an 8'x10' room each, the third being a (...) (24 years ago, 3-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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| (...) Not a serious collector, but I love the stuff - I have taken over 80% of the loft with it and that's just my stuff with the railway etc. 3 girls aged 0-7 think they own the rest but that's about 25% of one bedroom full! (...) Yes, but only the (...) (24 years ago, 4-Nov-00, to lugnet.loc.uk, lugnet.general)
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