Hello folks! I have pretty deep drawers where i keep a lot of my bricks. But the sorting bins i have now are only like half the depth of them. And the small sorting trays are even shallower.

Do you guys know of any affordable alternatives that would occupy the space more efficiently?

FYI, as you can see in the second pic, the height is about 15 cm (6 inches)

It's a requirement that everything is directly accessible, so none of those screw boxes with a lid you have to open first. I don't like those. Lastly, transparent plastic is preffered, as it's handy to see the bricks at the bottom when i'm looking for a specific colour.

I'm curious to hear if you know of any other options! Thanks

I had been wanting to find a cool way to display my Tumbler and came up with this. Found some cabinet doors on clearance for $4 at IKEA and thought they kind of looked like the ground moving underneath the car. I ran some steal wire through the technics bricks on the bottom of the car and through the door itself.

I want to mount the minifig on the door also but I think he needs a little backer to make him stand out a bit. Any suggestions?

So my 5yo has just started to take an interest in Lego (recently graduated from Duplo) and I got my childhood Lego back from my sister. Well, the flood gates have opened and thanks to Facebook market place, I ended up with 8 & 1/2 - 60L tubs full of Lego. And after melting the numbers off my credit card at the local Bunnings, (Aussie version of Home Depot) I have my very own Brick Pit. 240L of Lego sorted so far......

Hi all,

Husband recently brought home (almost all of) his childhood Lego collection for our nephews to play with when they come over. We are otherwise a childfree home.

I would love a place to organize the bricks (with dividers for the various pieces) in a way that when the kids aren’t here, the Legos are out of sight yet still accessible for when the kids are here.

I don’t love the idea of sterilite/plastic containers or drawers that take up too much space. Would prefer something that can either be small/flat enough to be hidden away in our condo (that is already lacking storage) or something that, aesthetically, doesn’t look like toy storage.

Right now, the loose bricks that have made it home with us probably fit into a medium sized banker’s box, but there are more to come.

I found something on Amazon.com but they don’t ship to Canada. Live near an IKEA so any hacks you have seen/done yourself would be appreciated (but if it’s not from IKEA, that’s fine as well).

My son is very into building Lego sets and most of his friends and family know this, and so, he is often gifted a set (or two or three) for birthdays and holidays. The problem is, he is also quite creative and absent-minded; he will build and enjoy the sets, then modify them ...and mix up several sets in the process. Now it is just chaos of a bunch of pieces mixed together and I am craving some organization.

My thought is to purchase a bunch of bins with lids so he can go through and find the pieces for the individual sets and store them together in a labeled box. I know that this will be an ordeal in and of itself, but I think if I have him go through and find the pieces for one set at a time, he will enjoy the challenge.

My questions are:

1. If I go with this storage bin idea, what is a size that would accommodate sets? He usually builds from sets of 500+ pieces.
2. Any tips on staying on top of an organizational system, and continue to support his creative tendencies?
3. Has anyone had an effective idea for a 10-year old to get (and keep) them organized??

Thank you!!

Hello! What's a good display case that I can nab without breaking the bank? I've found a bakery display from walmart for 50 bucks, but I feel like I can go lower for some fancy plastic

I have about 9 or 10 lego sets from my childhood (2010-2015) and i've been collecting and building them and i am almost done, i want a cool way to display them in my room

I thought of a glass or plastic jar of some kind, but i'm pretty sure there are better looking ways to display them, if you have images that would be great!

Thanks

Hello can someone tell me if my lego leftovers worth something or price it somehow? I dont know how much to ask or if i have something rare here. Everything is without instructions or boxes and missing pieces. Thank you :)

I am looking for suggestions on what I can use as a good building table for lego. Right now I am considering and jigsaw puzzle table or a rising coffee table that folds out into a bigger table. Anyone have any other suggestions?

Short on space in a growing lego collection for my son. He's 8 and has a ton of legos (more so than when I was a kid). I've probably contributed to the collection for sure, but it's part of the fun w/ him

Anyways, small house, small room, average sliding door closet. Looking to condense the collection from all around the house to only the closet. He likes the initial build, keeps them up for a little while, and then destroys them and starts the creative builds thereafter.

The last photo is a closet in which I'm working with, which is shared with his Hot Wheels, playsets and clothes.

I thought the trough with wheels idea would probably be the best for simple storage. Let me know your guys's thoughts! Thanks in advance!

Figured this might help others, got the alex drawers since they looked so nice but kinda fainted when I saw how much it would cost to buy the cheapest dividers for all the drawers I have (14 units atm) let alone 3d printing options.

I found that if you take the cardboard boxes that the alex units wheels come in, out the box that are a perfect measurment for making dividers.

Flatten out the wheel box, measure about 6 and a half centimetres along and cut, I then keep one as a guide so I dont need to measure again and then refold the others you do back into a cubes and then ether cut out a bottom from any other bit of cardboard or simply use wide tape as the base of the DIY divider itself (putting another bit of tape ontop of the sticky side where contents will sit of course).

You can perfectly fit 66 of these diy dividers into the top 3 drawers in a layout of 6 rows with 11 dividers in each row, for bottom 3 I think you jsut add another 2cm or so.

Say what you want about looks but its shut most of the time anyway and costs only as much tape as you'll use (assuming you cardboard handy.

If you don't wanna mess with the drawers extend limits, you can just tape boxes in the 2 rows at the back to eachother (so r6 box1 and R5 box2 would be connected) and move the two row boxes infront of those to pull them out when needed.

After my 5yo asked while playing with Duplo a few months ago "do they make LEGO smaller?" I've picked up the bricks again after about 28 years. And after picking up my childhood LEGO, I've also been fortunate to pick up some bulk collections from various spots. Now after trying to look for parts through 6 & 1/2 - 60L tubs, I melted off the numbers on my credit card and have been sorting for 2 days straight. 3 down, 3 to go.....

The lower section consists of IRIS drawers, while the upper wall is filled with Stanley sorters for all the small pieces. To bring everything together, I built the wooden cabinet today so the dimensions match perfectly and the whole setup looks like one integrated unit.

Tomorrow’s project is adding clean labels to the bottom drawers for themes like Pirates, Castle, Space, and more to make the setup even easier to navigate.
I hope this inspires a few fellow builders who are planning their own storage solution. I’m really happy with how it turned out!

Currently only have 1 x Y plates running by color per column and then by stud length by row, but on the longer plates (1x8,10,12 x) they don’t reach the right end. What do yall do in this situation? Leave them empty? I could try to fill it with tiles or respective 2 x Y plates but wanted some advice. I was already planning on simply pouring my less common pieces into one single tray

Looking for how others handle this specifically for Botanical sets (Bonsai, Orchid, Wildflower Bouquet etc.).

The pieces are so varied with plates, tiles, round elements, plant parts, flower pieces that sorting them into a generic box feels overwhelming. And the original LEGO bags are useless post-build since they're ordered by build sequence, not part type.

I've been experimenting with an 8-category system: Plates / Tiles / Bricks / Round & Cylinder / Slopes & Wedges / Technic & Axles / Leaves, Stems & Fronds / Flowers & Petals, and have larger and misc pieces going into labelled zip bags.

Does this cover most cases or am I missing important categories? Interested to hear what's worked for you.

I want to get started on building MOCs soon and I have some duplicate sets and went to a Pick a brick wall and got many more bricks.

Dimensions are 31 * 20 * 10 cm, so I guess the volume of the bigger containers is around 5 by 5 by 9 cm each. Up to 12 studs in length should be able to fit depth-wise.

Do you have other recommendations for storage?

Someone here posted the link, but I only saved some pictures.