Lego Your Childhood: The Supplies

One of my friends, Josh, has two young girls who also love playing with Lego. When I explained my plan, he was enthusiastic, and so we decided to make two tables. Mine, which was 80" x 40", and Josh's at 50" x 30". In early December my dad came up and we headed over to Josh's spacious garage and started the project. Josh lives about a mile away from a Lowe's so we hopped in my van and grabbed all the parts we needed.

I'm going to price out everything, including things I already owned, and some of the tools.

Wood:

1 Top Choice Mable Hardwood

full size is 3/4" x 96" x 48"
$49.97
Before you leave have them cut it to the size you want (I'll talk about that in the next section)

4 Multiple Purpose Hemlock Corner Molding

8' x 1.16" x 1.16"
$28.45 ($7.12 Each)
We found some of these had different thickness, making them useless for our project. be aware of this when you are picking them out.

4 White Polystyrene Screen Molding

8" x 1/4" x 3/4"
$9.88 ($2.47 each)

Josh wanted his to stand on its own. So he ended up picking up some legs and top plates:

4 Waddell Leg Plates

$6.72 ($1.68)

4 Waddell Traditional Wood Table Legs

$19.92 ($4.98)

I'm using IKEA organizational storage and bins for my base.

4 Trofast Frames

$279.96* ($69.99 each)

Various Trofast bins

9 small

$27 ($3 each)

5* mediums

$20 ($4 each)

4* large

$20 ($5 each)

For Lego I've found the white bins are better because they let in more light and they don't hide Lego pieces as much as red, black or blue does. *Also, I should say that I purchased 3 of these base units and a lot of the bins two years ago when we moved into the house, so this particular area is expensive, but for me it wasn't all in one chunk.

Grand total for each project:
Josh's total: $115
My total: $435

Tools:

These are the basics - you don't need a full shop to do this project. The nail gun makes it easy but is not 100% necessary, finishing nails and a hammer work just as well. The block plane was only needed because we got a little too close for comfort with our sides and needed to reduce the corner molding.