Entire house made from LEGO bricks

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By Becky Stern
Posted 2009/09/02 @ 8:26 am
Category Fun & Games

UK toy fanatic James May is having a real house built from millions of LEGO bricks. While running new wires through the walls and plumbing fixes should be a snap, I’d hate to be anywhere near the place in case of fire. GeekSugar has a gallery of pictures of the place as it’s being built.

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8 Responses to Entire house made from LEGO bricks

Tim Howland on September 2nd, 2009 at 11:21 am said:

He’s not just a toy fanatic- James May is one of the co-hosts of Britain’s immensely popular “Top Gear”.

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- For Realz on September 2nd, 2009 at 11:39 am said:
  
  A commenter on the site hosting the pictures said it best:
  
  “what a staggering and depressing failure of imagination to turn lego pieces into big blocks and stack them into a bigger box. totally lame.”
  
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Blaine on September 2nd, 2009 at 12:07 pm said:

Well… at least he won’t have to worry about painting it.

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John Park on September 2nd, 2009 at 1:40 pm said:

When we were building an addition on our house a couple of years ago we briefly considered going with our architect’s suggestion of a Lego walled shower in the master bath. I think we’d have gotten tired of it, so we bailed.

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anonymous on September 2nd, 2009 at 1:51 pm said:

I see plenty of wood in there. Lego is cool, but it doesn’t have the structural strength necessary to build a house.

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- Tim on September 2nd, 2009 at 3:28 pm said:
  
  Apparently they made a small cross-section entirely from lego which worked, but they couldn’t do a full house and film it for insurance reasons.
  
  They also made a bridge from mecano.
  
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- Blaine on September 2nd, 2009 at 3:58 pm said:
  
  I think it’s semantically correct. An entire house made from Lego. Not half a house or part of a house, but an entire house.
  
  Now… it’s not a house made entirely of Lego.
  But it is an entire house made of Lego.
  
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charles platt on June 16th, 2011 at 12:25 am said:

You’d think that someone who decided to do something so totally eccentric would design a more architecturally interesting house. But, no, it’s a box.

And how does he put beams above the doors and windows? By gluing the bricks together to make a lintel? I think not. And, the foundation? Is there one?

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