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Room Reveal: The Ultimate Lego Room

2/24/2017

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Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
I have loved Lego most of my life. In high school, when my brother went into the military, I got to take over his room. This meant I had a bedroom, bathroom, and extra room all to myself! I went to decorating them in my style and the bathroom got a Lego makeover. Since that time, I've wanted to expand on that theme and make a whole Lego room! I told myself- "one day when I get my own house I will have a room just for my Lego collection!" 

No one thought I would really do it (even me) but in 2013 I bought my first house- and there it was- a room for my Lego collection! I guess I could have made it a guest room or office- but I had another room for that. 

I went to work right away at creating the ultimate adult lego room! (What makes it adult? Maybe that it’s more organized than a kid's room typically would be :)

6 Steps to the Ultimate Lego Room!

#1 Storage and Organization
  • Large brick storage (IKEA TROFAST frame and bins) great to organize by brick color and size
  • Various bricks and sets (Lego Storage Bricks) I use these to hold odds and ends, like lego train track and sets I don’t have room to display. 
  • Small brick storage (Akro-Mils craft and hardware cabinet) these two cabinets allow easy organization of small bricks and pieces. Once I determined which bricks would go in each drawer, I printed out a picture of the pieces on sticker paper and attached to the front.
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
My nephew, Tyler, (6) picking some bricks from the IKEA Trofast frame and bins
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
What piece do you need? I got that!
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Lego brick storage cubes great for extra pieces that aren't used all the time
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Tyler, when he was 3, made his name and some minifigures
#2 Display
  • Floating shelves- we built with angle iron and scrap wood to display small sets (see full details here)
  • Wall shelves- two standard shelves from the hardware store provide more display space
  • Large shelf- I put some trim on a wood board and set it on the top of the two Ikea Trofast frames to make a full shelf for lego sets to be displayed.
  • Display table- using two IKEA KALLAX shelf units, I again put trim on a wood board and laid it across the two units. This provides so many surfaces to display sets!
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
DIY floating shelves
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Store bought wall shelves
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
#3 Play Space 
  • Bench- great to sit on but also makes a great play surface off the floor
  • Dry erase board- great place to draw out Lego set designs!
  • Pallet Lego table- nephew Tyler had this build idea, it’s the perfect surface to setup a Lego city! (see full details here)
  • Large soft lego bricks- we were at LegoLand in FL and in a kids' play area they had these really cool soft bricks. I went to search on amazon and found them for my Lego room!
  • Rug- I love having hard flooring in this room, it's great for building but not so comfortable for sitting. We found this rug a few years ago and I thought it looked like the top of a Lego brick. It fits perfectly in the room and makes for more comfortable play!
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Ty drawing an idea on the dry erase board
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Andrew playing on the Lego pallet table
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Ava having fun in the Lego city
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Tyler made a 'T' out of giant soft Lego bricks!
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Doesn't this rug look like a Lego brick?!
#4 Decorate
  • Wall color- This color is called zesty apple. I love the pop of color it adds even though the bricks have plenty of color on their own. I wanted a fun color to go along with this fun room. 
  • Curtains- I have a great big window in this room and it can make the room hot during the day. I painted a dropcloth the same color as my walls, then had my nephews and niece (Tyler, Andrew, Ava) put their hand and foot prints on it. I love how it turned out, and it’s so special to to me.
  • Lego posters- sometimes in Lego sets they include a poster and I decided to display a few
  • Lego Art- I had this idea and just thought it would be super cute for the room (see full details here)
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Lego Art
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Andrew and Tyler :)
#5 Sets vs. Personal Creations 
  • Deciding what sets to display was a fun part of this process! I was thrilled when I could put my Harry Potter sets (from 2000) back together and have them on display.
  • I also have a few custom creations I kept from my Lego bathroom when I was in high school.
  • But my favorite sets? When the nephews make their own set, I love to display them proudly! Tyler liked to make minifigures when he was younger and I made a stand to hold his favorites.
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Throw back to 2001 when I designed my bathroom with the theme "Lego NYC"
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
It was 2001...I was an N'sync fan! These are scenes from the music video "Bye, bye, bye"
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
I made a spot for all my bathroom supplies out of Legos.
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
I also made playbills of shows Mom and I saw in NYC. Those are in my Lego room.
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Lego creations by the nephews
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Minifigures by Tyler!
#6 Kid Play for All the Toys
  • Along with all the lego bricks and sets, I also have some “other” toys hiding in some Lego colored storage boxes. They easily fit into the room without being noticed when stored away. The kids fav would have to be the Disney monorail, Mickey gloves, and “grow” ball.
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Ava loves the "grow" ball
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Sleepover in the lego room!
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Ava looking cute in her mickey gloves :)
Learn how to make the ultimate adult or kids lego room with these IKEA hacks!
Night, night Andrew :)
The biggest joy of this room is that my nephews and niece love it! They love to go to “Stephie’s house” to play in the Lego room. Seeing the joy and fun they have in the room- that we have playing together- is the best feeling. My Lego collection at the end of the day is meant to be played with! 

The boys enjoy taking apart sets and making new creations, and I’m ok with that. At first they were afraid to “break” my sets or touch anything. I always tell them- "you can’t break Lego- if you take something apart we can always put it back together." My Lego room is designed for creativity, fun, and play!


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4 Comments
Patrick Nelson
11/4/2021 01:20:17 pm

I love it! because I like legos so much

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Steph
11/4/2021 01:21:50 pm

Thanks! Lego is the best!!

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Ariana
1/15/2022 10:39:13 am

I love this Lego room you created and your through explanation! These lego displays are the best that I have ever seen! My son has collected and built so many sets and your room has given me ideas and inspiration to display them in different ways! All of the details you've put in your room is incredible. I can't wait to show this to him and get started. Thank you so much 😊

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Steph
1/15/2022 01:59:36 pm

So glad you liked it!

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