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My Current Lego Room
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Mon, 4 May 2009 13:46:36 GMT
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I took some pictures of my Lego Room for the Virtual Lego Room Tour at
Brickfest.
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=381533
It's an expansion and rethinking of my older Lego spaces, as described in
http://news.lugnet.com/storage/?n=1411
To walk around the room. . .
ClosetMaid makes a system they call Cubicals with shelves and cloth
drawers that fit 10-inch baseplates very well. I held off on them since I
couldn't find them in black, but finally gave in when I found some in
cherry on clearance. They're great for holding random stuff.
The core of the storage system is large drawer units. For the basic 13
colors I have stacks of three, with basic plates above 1x bricks above 2x
bricks. Rarer colors get single large or small drawers.
Above the large drawer units I have nine Stack-On units with clear
drawers. These hold smallish things like tiles, plates with clips, round
bricks, etc. On top of these I have plastic shoeboxes with castle walls
and superbricks.
The next wall has cheap steel shelving with overflow basic bricks and
slopes in Lego tubs and arches in shoeboxes. Also tubs for random things
like soccer field sections, animals, and wheels. It also holds the TV and
a very small selection of my unopened sets (most of my unopened sets are
above my closets or in the living room).
The next wall has my Keter boxes. The full ones have a consistent
selection of basic brick and plate in (currently) twenty-four different
colors. I have four more mounted, but currently not in use. The Keter
boxes support shoeboxes with doors, windows, Znap. . . I also have two
large Keter boxes, currently holding Technic and printed pieces. This
wall also has a stack of Sterilite underbed boxes with Duplo, Primo,
Clikits, and empty storage. The nice tables against this wall could be
used for many purposes, but right now they mainly hold my "to be sorted"
boxes.
The final wall (actually made of my closets, and separating my Lego Room
from my bedroom) has a couple of metal racks holding random stuff and,
more significantly, my current approach to the "Pick-a-Brick" problem:
when I find myself with a large quantity of some nonbasic element (like
1x1 round bricks, 2x2 tiles. . .) I bag it up and put in here in a plastic
shoebox that I can mostly see through. There really is a method to
this---the top row has round elements, with tiles and Technic (and X-Pods)
next, then foliage, and then panels.
My current build area is a 30x45 (dropped) PSLTC table which seems to
perpetually have first-level sort bins on it. That isn't necessarily a
bad thing, but I'd like to work it down so those bins are just small
buckets.
I have a few more of the large drawer units on wheels holding slopes and
three nifty units
http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?i=3862020
that Jon Rasmussen and I made that hold a Stack-On drawer unit on each
side and are on wheels. These currently hold hinges, turntables, foliage,
and Technic. They also have a flate top that is strong enough to sit
on, if necessary. Each of these can fit under the build table or the side
tables (but not all of them, because there's not enough space).
Current areas of concern: I have a lot of first-level sorting to do.
After that, I need to do a better job of sorting my Technic so I can
actually find it. Also, I haven't sorted minifigs (which includes all
printed elements) for about five years, beyond throwing them in a tub.
My "Misc" bin(s) are getting unhelpfully large and could use some
subdivision. I actually have unused sorting space (four Keter boxes and
two Stack-On units on the ground) but those are a poor fit for many of the
parts that need homes. I need to regularize the status/location for my
elements like "transportation", "support", and "filler brick"
(discolored/CA parts that I can use inside hills and structures if I
remember I have them).
--
TWS Garrison
http://www.morfydd.net/twsg/
LEGO: CA+++ SW++ GA+c #++++++ LS+++ P+++++ YB77m
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