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LEGO creations that you can use as fun and functional everyday products for your home!

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I love LEGO, and I know everyone has a soft spot for it, no matter how old we get! You’re always gonna get excited when you see some LEGO blocks lying around, or a cute little LEGO build. We’ve covered a whole lot of LEGO creations by master builders that have honestly taken our breath away. They leave us mesmerized and wondering “How the hell was this created…and from LEGO blocks?!” However, LEGO has managed to make its place in our ordinary day to day life as well. You can even use it to create everyday designs that have high functionality in our household! From pencil and toothbrush holders to laptop stands, and even chore charts, you can use LEGO to solve unique problems in your home. They don’t always have to be fancy creations, sometimes the simplest solutions can be very special too.

The Botanical Collection Flower Bouquet is the perfect flower arrangement for your living space. Created wholly from LEGO blocks, the beautiful bouquet consists of a myriad variety of colorful and gushing flowers, from roses to sunflowers. Place them in your living room, and brighten it up, without the constant worry of having to water them!

This laptop riser/ monitor stand is the perfect addition to your work from home desk! Bored of the usual laptop stands? Build your own using LEGO! The nifty little design even accommodates little storage drawers to keep your pens, pencils, notepads, and other miscellaneous stationery. It even manages to incorporate cable management in its structure.

Any Harry Potter fans in the house? These buildable Harry Potter House Crests signify your allegiance to either Slytherin, Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, or Ravenclaw. You can also combine all four to create one impressive House Crest, and place it anywhere in your home. It’s a modern piece of art that’ll look super cute and verify your status as a true Potterhead!

Allyson Gail ( allysongaillego) used the often forgotten orange pieces – the LEGO separators to create handy everyday objects! From a cute little pencil holder to a phone stand or even a napkin holder, she’s transformed the otherwise ignored pieces into designs with immense daily utility!

LEGO teamed up with IKEA to create the BYGGLEK Boxes! The BYGGLEK collection is a range of simple, and easy to put together storage solutions that deal with your everyday storage problems. You can build multiple storage designs to cater to your various storage needs – from a tea box to a little planter, the possibilities are endless!

This LEGO toothbrush-holder is perfect for holding your entire family’s toothbrushes, plus an additional toothpaste squeezer makes this the ideal set of bathroom accessories. Clean, sleek, and simple, these buildable accessories are sure to brighten up your morning!

Kintsugi, the Japanese art of repairing broken items with gold has gained immense popularity nowadays. And LEGO TSUGI has been inspired by Kintsugi, you can now repair broken objects such as your plant holders, pots, lamps, tables, and other household items with LEGO, instead of gold! How cool is that?

This LEGO brick-build is a unique Lazy Susan or rotating plate that you’d love to have in your home. Its mosaic-inspired pattern will complement any living space, creating a nifty turntable that you can use to display souvenirs, distribute food at your next dinner party or simply place it as a beautiful stand-alone piece. The playful possibilities are never-ending!

You can now build various hanging items for your home using LEGO! You can create picture frames to showcase your treasured memories, adaptable calendars to never miss an important date, trendy art designs and signs to jazz up your living space, and to simply add your personal touch in your own buildable and customizable way.

Do you have trouble keeping up with your chores and tasks, and almost always miss out on one? You can now build your own Chore Chart using LEGO blocks! This unique chart hack makes sure you’re always at the top of your task game, and tick off everything on your to-do list.

IKEA x LEGO – the design collaboration of every child and adult’s dreams!

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Have you ever stepped on a LEGO piece and have your whole life flash before your eyes or are you normal? Kids love to play with LEGO blocks but always leave a mess, these boxes were designed to encourage storing their toys so you can feel safe about walking around the house like its not a land mine! So IKEA and LEGO teamed up to make storage bins, called BYGGLEK, that makes tidying up another fun game. The white boxes come in four sizes and can store hundreds of bricks and you can easily stack them up because they are made like giant LEGO blocks. “The box itself can be a house, a swimming pool, a sports arena – there is no right or wrong!” said Rasmus Buch Løgstrup, the Lego designer who led this project. The BYGGLEK range consists of one set of three small boxes, and two sets of bigger boxes and one set of LEGO bricks for the complete experience right from the moment you get your package.

The good part is that BYGGLEK can be used with any existing and future LEGO elements because of the thoughtfully placed studs on the lid and front which make it a part of the play system. The designers worked with child psychologists, who told them that children don’t see a pile of blocks on the floor like a mess; they see it as a creative environment – it is a stimuli for their imagination. So the parents needed an “out of the box” solution for cleaning/storage and who better to do that than IKEA – every adult’s happy place. “At IKEA, we always believe in the power of play. Play lets us explore, experiment, dream and discover.” said Andreas Fredriksson, designer at IKEA of Sweden, “Where adults often see a mess, children see a stimulating creative environment, and BYGGLEK will help bridge the gap between these two views to ensure more creative play in homes around the world. Plus, the BYGGLEK collection matches perfectly with other IKEA products, making it possible to have your children’s creativity becoming a nice and unique piece of decoration at home.” Works for all the residents of the real house and the toy house!

The two big boxes will come in a traditional IKEA flatpack and has been designed to be so simple to assemble that 5-year-olds will be able to do it. It comes with no instructions so kids can be as imaginative as like. IKEA will also sell a 201-piece LEGO brick set that has been specially curated by designers with less complex elements to ensure that even the youngest child could use them. The toys and design are rooted in a warm and cozy home life and include a little LEGO hot dog for a snack in case you get hungry! They’ll be available to buy throughout Europe and North America from October 1st, expanding to the rest of Ikea’s retail channels throughout the year.

Designer: IKEA and LEGO

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These LEGO bricks are designed to teach kids Braille

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LEGO blocks have a timeless appeal. With their ability to form complex structures that only the mind can think of, the blocks help teach children the basics of construction, symmetry, form, and even color. They now also teach children Braille.

Its bumped upper texture provides quite literally the most obvious canvas for the braille language, allowing kids to, block by block, build sentences, but at the same time also read along as they go, both by running their fingers across the specially bumped blocks as well as using the printed text below each set of bumps.

The concept behind LEGO Braille Bricks was proposed by multiple international organizations for the blind, and was eventually spearheaded by LEGO Group’s Senior Art Director, Morten Bonde, who suffers from a genetic eye disorder that is gradually turning him blind. “With thousands of audiobooks and computer programs now available, fewer kids are learning to read Braille.” The Braille blocks help kids understand and learn the language enabling them to live in a more inclusive world, while also promoting brain development and independence.

The LEGO Braille Bricks will be compatible with all current standard blocks, and the fact that it comes with text printed below for people learning the language, the Braille Bricks will bring “a whole new and playful approach to get blind and visually impaired children interested in learning Braille, enabling them to develop a breadth of skills needed to thrive and succeed in a fast-paced world”.

The Braille Bricks are currently being tested in Danish, Norwegian, English and Portuguese, while German, Spanish and French will be tested in the third quarter of 2019. The final LEGO Braille Bricks kit is expected to launch in 2020 and will be distributed free of charge to select institutions through participating partner networks in the markets.

Designer: LEGO

Japanese Skyline Created with 1.8 Million LEGOs

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When we think of LEGO countries, we think of multicolored blocks making awkward buildings that defy gravity and the laws of physics. Japan, on the other hand, built their country to scale using LEGOs. 

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