This week, I've embarked on yet the latest episode of "How to Corral and Consolidate My Growing Stash of LEGO".
Prior to today, my brick operations have resided in the downstairs study, sharing the space with my music 'studio' and office. With the limited room, I was forced to stash boxes and bins of LEGO anywhere I could find a space.
Most of it lived in the closet. Some of it occupied a space underneath a wide credenza. More under the desk. Even the space under a couch was utilized to store shallow plastic boxes - one behind another.
Very inefficient when it came to trying to find parts and pieces. Way too much time and energy was spent bending, crawling, and moving stuff out of the way to find parts for a project.
So, the other morning I decided enough was enough.
In my basement, I have several 2-foot by four-foot, six-foot tall heavy duty shelf units on castors.
These were acquired a couple of years ago when the local Tuesday Morning store closed its doors and sold off all of their store fixtures.
I bought four of these units at $25 each! Whadda steal.
One of these units has been a storage area for toys that the grandkiddos no longer play with, so "Why not re-purpose this for LEGO use?", says I.
After re-locating the toys, I began lugging all of my boxes and tubs of bricks down the lengthy flight of stairs to the Basement La-BOR-atory, where my model rocket building and woodworking activities take place.
This particular shelf unit has three lower shelves, above which is mounted a 4' x 4' pegboard wall.
I found that a 3 foot bookshelf fits nicely in the upper space along with a couple of large plastic parts bins which I recently picked up cheap at local garage sales.
There is a foot wide space on the uppermost shelf that will serve nicely as a work-table for sorting parts and staging builds.
At the bottom of the unit, two shelves are reserved for larger boxes and totes that hold bulk parts and large plates. Behind these are boxes containing the instruction books for sets.
Finally, the very top of the shelf unit holds boxes of parts in colors that I rarely use.
There's even a bin for my collection of SNOT!
EEeeeeeeeeew !!
An overhead clip-on lamp, stool, and waste bin completes the space.
With this new parts system I hope to be able to embark on builds in a much quicker manner, since everything is close at hand and much easier to locate, and reach.
No doubt, in another year or two, I'll more than likely be re-doing the whole thing again, but for now....
....it's 'brick-clickin' time !!
