Lego organization tip I got from my Lego builder in-laws is to sort them by size and type. We still have to clean legos up off the floor but it decreases dumping to look for one piece. And then it’s easier to find what they are looking for. For example, sort out all of the minifigs and accessories, large bricks, 2x1 bricks and smaller, and tiles. I prefer sorting to building so I’ve even sorted smaller pieces and put them in small plastic containers from hobby lobby but my son will open the drawer and find exactly the piece he is looking for.
You could also screw a horizontal line of deep molding to the left-hand wall, with a lip sufficient to support a book, and place one or two lego-build project books there, for inspiration. That way they would be at-hand, but not cluttering the surface of the table.
Love this! I always try to encourage my decluttering clients to repurpose what they have before looking to bring new items into the home. They don’t always listen to me.
I also was about to say we’re past the Lego stage here but that’s not really true. A few years ago my 19-year daughter started buying Lego sets again (after we sold all of her previous sets on Facebook a few years before that). She now lives in New Zealand while going to university and I’m still in Colorado, with her Lego sets. One of these days, she’d like me to ship her two moving size boxes of Legos to her, despite the fact that the shipping costs would probably be more than the sets are worth. I haven’t done it yet, of course, so the boxes, combined with my (also in New Zealand) 22-year old son’s bins of anime books and outdated video game consoles, take up my entire entry closet. I’m moving in November (not to NZ, unfortunately) and am really not wanting to schlep all my children’s crap with me 🤣.
Lego organization tip I got from my Lego builder in-laws is to sort them by size and type. We still have to clean legos up off the floor but it decreases dumping to look for one piece. And then it’s easier to find what they are looking for. For example, sort out all of the minifigs and accessories, large bricks, 2x1 bricks and smaller, and tiles. I prefer sorting to building so I’ve even sorted smaller pieces and put them in small plastic containers from hobby lobby but my son will open the drawer and find exactly the piece he is looking for.
Good idea! There might be less yelling for mama to come upstairs to find a Lego piece 😣
You could also screw a horizontal line of deep molding to the left-hand wall, with a lip sufficient to support a book, and place one or two lego-build project books there, for inspiration. That way they would be at-hand, but not cluttering the surface of the table.
Leave it to you to take things to the next level 🙌
Love this! I always try to encourage my decluttering clients to repurpose what they have before looking to bring new items into the home. They don’t always listen to me.
I also was about to say we’re past the Lego stage here but that’s not really true. A few years ago my 19-year daughter started buying Lego sets again (after we sold all of her previous sets on Facebook a few years before that). She now lives in New Zealand while going to university and I’m still in Colorado, with her Lego sets. One of these days, she’d like me to ship her two moving size boxes of Legos to her, despite the fact that the shipping costs would probably be more than the sets are worth. I haven’t done it yet, of course, so the boxes, combined with my (also in New Zealand) 22-year old son’s bins of anime books and outdated video game consoles, take up my entire entry closet. I’m moving in November (not to NZ, unfortunately) and am really not wanting to schlep all my children’s crap with me 🤣.