How to Store LEGOs: Storage and Organizing Ideas
One of the great things about LEGO is how amazingly durable and playable it is!
But it also has a limit, because sooner or later, you'll end up with more bricks than you can store.
That's the question we're here to answer today.
Here are a few ideas for storing your favorite building bricks.
We'll go over all kinds of methods to help you store your LEGO sets and toys in boxes, chests, storage cubes and other handy storage solutions!
I How to Store LEGOs?
Take all the LEGO bricks you own and put them in one big box. It's more of a storage method than a real way to organize your bricks. 🧱
This method is aimed more at parents who want to make tidying up their kids' room easier than at enthusiasts who want to store and sort their bricks and minifigures. 🗂
The main drawback is that it's especially hard to find the brick you need. If you're an AFOL (Adult Fan of LEGO), you need to be able to find your pieces quickly to make the most of your building time.
II How to Organize LEGOs the Right Way?
The first thing experienced builders do is start splitting their different pieces and elements into separate compartments. 🗄
They might use furniture with one or more storage drawers, multi-drawer cabinets, a toolbox or even shelves. 🧰
It's not as if you need to keep huge plates or long LEGO pieces in separate compartments.
That's why an AFOL or a LEGO builder, more or less experienced, will often use dedicated organizers or small compartments for small pieces, and storage bins or chests for the bigger ones.
III LEGO Storage Idea: Stack Them!
Need that yellow 2×3 plate? Grab your stack of those pieces. Almost every LEGO piece, from classic bricks to slopes and Technic beams, can be stacked.
And the ones that can't, like axles, gears and shafts, can be stored in a box separately. 📦
The advantage of this method is that it saves space while also keeping your building blocks within easy reach!
IV LEGO Brick Storage Box
Efficiency plays a big part when choosing a storage unit or a storage box for your Danish bricks, but sometimes looks matter even more.
Who really wants an ugly bin of LEGO bricks in their living room?
LEGO brick-shaped storage bins also exist as official LEGO products, made under license by Room Copenhagen, another Danish company. There's a small 4-stud version and a bigger 8-stud version, and both models come in different colors. There are also storage boxes shaped like minifigure heads.
It's an original way to store and display your bricks (and if you'd rather show off your finished builds, take a look at our LEGO display cases).
Even better, as your collection grows, you can stack these storage boxes. 🏗
All in a way that decorates your space without randomly piling up your bricks!
V How to Sort LEGOs? By Color!
This is the most obvious way to sort your bricks. The yellow ones go in this storage cube, the red ones in another storage chest, and so on.
While it's an excellent tactic for finding the color you want, it's not the best or most practical method for finding the brick(s) you need.
For example, LEGO artist Nathan Sawaya mainly uses classic bricks rather than bricks of different shapes and looks, which makes organizing by color a perfectly logical choice.
Plus, it looks really great in the bins! Sawaya has said that walking into his studio, which holds over a million LEGO bricks, is like walking through a rainbow. 🌈
The sort-by-color technique works best if the bricks are the same shape and the same color.
VI How to Organize LEGOs: A Dedicated Room?
There comes a time when you might run out of options, so this is the last one, and it's not the easiest to set up. A bit like a garage or an office, you "just" have to put them all in one room.
A room full of bricks and LEGO sets of all kinds can be a glorious, magnificent place. Decorate it with brick creations, MOCs, sets and minifigures.
Needless to say, with this method the space saved is fairly limited, since it takes up a whole room, but the risk of overflow is lower.
VII How to Store LEGO Instructions?
A fairly simple method is to put them in a sleeve, a binder or an envelope and keep them in a compartment, a piece of furniture or a simple small box. 📦
Keep them within reach so you can use them whenever you feel like it. You can also put them in order if you have several instruction booklets for the same set.
To wrap up, there's no miracle solution for storing your bricks. ✨
You can, however, sort by type of brick, for example: minifigures (hats, hair, heads, torsos, legs) in a shared compartment, or at least with specific sections for each subcategory of pieces.
The same goes for classic LEGO pieces and bricks.
Also remember to label your bins, drawers and boxes so you know what you're grabbing and, above all, so you keep most of your bricks within easy reach! 😉
If you'd like to learn more about LEGO and what you can do with it, we recommend checking out our blog article: What to Do with LEGOs?
We'll see you in the next article. See you soon, fans of little bricks and building blocks!
