Edit ArticleHow to Build a LEGO House Two Methods:Building a House from ScratchBuilding a House from a PatternCommunity Q&A LEGOs are a fun toy enjoyed by people of all ages. One of the most common creations people build from LEGOs is a house. Depending on the parts you have available and how much time you want to put into it, you can make your house a basic bungalow or a masterpiece mansion. These instructions will help you build your own creative home from LEGOs.Get a LEGO table or one of those green LEGO platforms. This will be the floor of your house, as well as the yard, if you save room for one. If you build your house in two parts, on two different platforms, you can open it up to see what's inside by pulling the platforms apart.Lay a bottom row of bricks as your "foundation," setting up locations for walls, doors, and the different rooms.[3] Make a living room, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom if your house is big enough. Think about what is in a real house and let this be your guide.
For example, where should the fireplace go? If you are going to build one, you'll want to lay some bricks for the chimney during this planning stage. If you're planning to add a second floor, make sure to save plenty of room for stairs. It's probably a good idea to build them while you're still laying the foundation so you know how much room they'll take up. Build the outside walls. Next, build up the exterior walls of your house, row by row. Hint: your walls will be sturdier if you don't just stack the same kind of brick, one on top of the next. Instead, offset your rows so the "seams" between the bricks don't all line up from one row to the next. Don't forget to leave spaces for the windows! You can leave these as empty spaces in your walls, or, if you have special window parts, install them.[4] It will be harder to go back and add these later if you forget to put them in while you're building the walls. Build the interior walls. Finish setting up the rooms in the house with walls inside.
For the living room, you can make chairs and a TV. For the kitchen, you can make a counter, sink, oven, etc. For the bedroom, make a bed and a desk, and for the bathroom, make a toilet, shower, and sink. If you have them, you can make your furniture more realistic with specialty parts. LEGO makes pieces that look like keyboards, stoves, faucets, and more. These kinds of details can add a lot of realism to your house.Once you've finished the basics, you can start adding decorative touches to make your house more unique. You can add tile floors or a patio using small flat pieces,[5] add light fixtures or a ceiling fan, and landscape the yard with trees and flowers. Use your imagination and the parts you have available to make your house as interesting as you can.Adding a roof should be the last step in building your house because once you put it on, it's harder to to move things around inside your house. You can get around this problem by making a removable roof. Attach it with hinged parts so you can pull it back, or just set it on top rather than locking it in place for easier access.
Play with your new house!The LEGO sets you can buy in the store come with instructions for building the creation shown on the box, and LEGO Creator sets have 3 alternative house models you can build. Alternatively, if you have a lot of parts already and are looking for house patterns or just general ideas for your house, there are several websites that provide patterns for free. The official LEGO website includes some free patterns, like these instructions for a basic house as well as videos that show you how to build many different creations. features a mix of old LEGO manuals that originally came with different sets and creations made by visitors to the website. They have many house patterns, too.The pattern will tell you which parts you need to make the house in the picture. Go through your LEGOs and make sure you have all the parts you need. Otherwise, you might get halfway through and find that you can't finish your house. Even if you are building from a set, it's a good idea to make sure all the parts are there before you start building.
Occasionally parts are missing, which can be very frustrating to discover part way through the building process. If you check your parts at the beginning and something is missing, you can take the set back to the store and get a new one it before you start.Go step by step through the instructions, laying your bricks in place exactly as shown in the instructions. Sometimes it's helpful to count the studs (the bumps on top of each LEGO brick) between bricks in the pictures to make sure you get the spacing right.Once you've finished the house, you can customize it with your own LEGO parts. Maybe it needs some trees or flowers, or even a garage. For example, you can turn your house into a winter scene by adding thin white pieces to the yard for snow, and making icicles out of clear pieces. Use your imagination and be creative. The only limitations on your house are the parts you have available. With the right parts and a creative mind, you can make a space house, a houseboat, a house on wheels, whatever you want!
Build on a smooth, flat surface. Building somewhere uneven, like carpet, can make it harder to get the parts to lock in place properly. Lay out your parts in piles or sorted in bins, it will help you find the parts you are looking for later. When you take apart a house built from instructions, pay attention to how the parts were put together. This can give you good ideas for designing your own creations in the future. Keep your house away from dogs and younger siblings. They can be very destructive to your creations. If you built your house from a pattern, keep the instructions, just in case you need to make some unexpected repairs.Museum architect Bjarke Ingels is building better ideas with Legos than the company that designed them. Yesterday, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels laid the first brick for the Lego House, a museum devoted to every kid's favorite building block, in the Lego company's historic home of Bilund, Denmark. Naturally, the first brick was made to look like an old-school Lego brick.
In fact, the whole museum looks like a stack of Lego bricks. The Lego Architecture version of the Lego House is available as a set of Lego bricks that form a tiny building that looks like a large building that looks like a pile of Lego bricks. It's the architecture version of that Maine resident who stood for a mugshot wearing a t-shirt with his mugshot on it. Turtles all the way down! Unfortunately, the Lego House museum doesn't much resemble the toys that the Lego company produces these days. Licensing deals with Marvel, DC Comics, The Lord of the Rings, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and other franchises have transformed the crisp Danish vision for gender-neutral building blocks into a Hollywood merchandising machine geared almost exclusively to boys. Girls, fed up with boys and Lego, revolted. Lego responded in 2012 with the Lego Friends line, a fuchsia ghetto that only further gendered the division. Back in January, an exasperated 7-year-old penned a letter to the company to express her frustration with the limited roles assigned to the pink side of the Lego aisle.
A vintage 1981 Lego ad that made the rounds on Tumblr turned up the contrast: While Lego bricks were once made for children, now Legos belonged to boys—with an asterisk for Olivia's Beach Buggy or the Heartlake Juice Bar. The company is doing somewhat better on the gender-balance front, having just released earlier this month the Lego Research Institute set, a suite of un-pink, all-female scientist figurines (designed by IRL scientist Ellen Kooijman). But Lego is still sagging on another front: in its depiction of cities. Lego's emphasis on Batman toys is a problem, but so is the way it might think today about Gotham City. As design critic Alexandra Lange reasoned back in 2012, the Lego City line is all masculine sameness: "an urbs founded on the stereotype of boy busyness, a place that makes 3-D the transportation, safety, and sports obsessions writ large on the T-shirts in the boys' sections of major retailers." Lego City was built on a militaristic foundation, with law-enforcement sets making up about a third of the entire product suite, from a K-9 unit to an aerial surveillance squad.