Riveting Saturday Night Topic : Lego storage - please help me

[december2020]

DS is starting to get into Lego and it is taking over my house.
How do you store Lego, both spare and loose pieces as well as built sets?

Currently they are sat all over my window ledges and mantel and I really want to find them a proper place (that isn't my living room).

Any ideas please?

Plastic boxes. Many many of them.
If sets are to be kept together I put them in zip plastic foodbags. Some boxes have specific themes in them (City, Ninjago, Friends).
But it's just piles and piles of boxes.....

DS just had them in a giant Lego box mixed up in his room and sets he'd built on display or re broken up and in the box

More organised friends bought things like this that were open and at a slight angle

Try Argos or IKEA or JL

As for displaying built ones we bought 2 floor to ceiling adjustable book cases from ikea to display them on as well his books and other stuff.

Depends ...

We only have a few built ones sitting out. Others are in glass display cabinets or on shelves in Ikea Billy bookcases between books (eg modular detective agency with classic detective fiction).

Bricks started in plastic boxes (like 'Really useful' boxes) but have gradually been sorted into divided boxes like these:

https://www.hobbycraft.co.uk/ezy-storage-sort-it-4.8l-container-with-13-cups/6605831000.html

or these

https://www.diy.com/departments/fatmax-deep-pro-black-yellow-organiser/162730_BQ.prd

Thank you everyone!
I get the impression there will be lots of boxes and shelving in my future ha!

IKEA Trofast drawers! They are the plastic tray like ones, you can get different depths and colours. That or Kallax.

Depends how out of hand serious the Lego gets. Our house is in the beyond help very dedicated Lego stage and it is managed by a combination of these ikea Alex slide out drawers: https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/alex-drawer-unit-on-castors-white-80485423/ , classic kallax units and several banks of little pull out drawers like this: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07FJXHSPD/ref=sspa_mw_detail_4?ie=UTF8&psc=1&smid=A1PGDVVR8ZMA04&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9waG9uZV9kZXRhaWwp13NParams

Mainly I now cope by accepting that I don’t have to have a dining room and that there is therefore a room I can just shut the door on and pretend we don’t have more Lego than the average toy shop….

Either ikea Trofast drawers, or they do black, thick card boxes in various sizes. We started with Trofast, then moved to the black boxes, fit under beds or on shelves. Organised by colour, and eg wheels, mini figures etc. pop a sticker on the front with corresponding colour 👌