After stepping on Malcolm's lego bits and bobs for the thousandth-or-so time, I decided to create a Lego-themed desk and bookcase for him... this is what I ended up with
you can see that it's a bit of a mess on there, but considering that most of that stuff was underfoot before, I consider it a success. I tried to make it stock Lego colors of red, white, blue and yellow although some of the very bright colors are hard to match.
This desk was a bit different than my original Sketchup design
That one was from How to Build with Grid Beam which requires drilling, well, hundreds of perfectly uniform holes in stock lumber, or buying factory materials I couldn't find. I thought it would be fun to do with Malcolm so (with my friend Jesse's help) we set up a drill press rig in the garage to make the grid 'beams'. We made some beams all right, but my dad and neighbor Doug talked me out of the complex desk design in favor a simpler one. The grid beam stock will be used for a matching bookcase.
If you're into Sketchup BTW, you can find the Sketchup model for the grid-beam desk here, as well as a vastly-more complicated 3D Sketchup model of our house (created from the original 2D CAD design drawings) here.
love it!!!!!
Posted by: linda cato | June 10, 2011 at 06:32 PM