The Plan

We are fortunate enough to have space for a play room in our house.  So rather than restrict him to his bedroom (like I was) we are putting the table in there. I wanted to use things we already had for the base - 3 Trofast Frames from Ikea and bins for all of his current toys.

Each one is roughly 37" x 18" and 20" high. The initial idea was one at the foot of the table and two on the sides making a 55" x 36" table. However I soon decided to add a 4th Trofast and made the base 74" x 36". That made the final design 82" x 42" including a 1" rim around the side high enough to keep the plates from sliding off, but low enough not to get in the way of playing. I spent some time toying around with making it square, but the dimensions ended up being 60" x 60" requiring 36 base squares and the center of the table is 30" from the edge. The longer design only requires 32 base squares and the center is only 20" in.

Originally I had come up with a plan to use 2"x4"'s as a deep framed side around 3/8" thick board. I didn't have the equipment I thought I needed so enlisted my Dad and Stepmother who have their own shop down in Oregon.

This was my initial plan I sent them:

However, finding a perfectly strait 82" 2"x4" and then attempting to rout it is a lot harder than initially thought, so my dad came up with a more feasible design.

Take a smaller piece of molding and cover the 3/4 plywood's edges, the design is low profile while still keeping the Lego plates on the board.

And from that we moved onto the execution phase.

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