Large Lego Table made from Ikea parts

Last year I built a standing desk from Ikea parts that has become very popular online(who knew ?).

This year I decided to surprise the kids with a large Lego table for Christmas. Also while my wife is not always excited about the looks of the things I build, but she has liked the Ikea Expedit builds so far, so I stuck to that.

Note that while the standing desk was 100% Ikea parts, this builds uses a few pieces of 2x4 and some moulding and glue, nothing complicated though.

Concept

So basically the main things I wanted:

• Use Expedit parts.

• Make that table pretty large for large projects, although you could make it any size.

• Have a proper table height for the kids (6 and 8). Top of table is about 26'' .

• have Lego storage built-in.

• Have "borders" around so Legos won't fall off and get eaten by the vacuum daily.

Parts used:

• Expedit bookshelves 2 @ 40$

• Part of an Expedit desk as the table" (used the rest for something else) @ 50$

• A 2x4x10 from Lowes fro the table legs @ 4$

• Some wood moulding(Lowes) for the borders - ~ 4 x 8' long peces @ 3$

• Some glue (used adhesive caulk)

• Some Lego base plates

• Some black paint (Valspar Enamel)

• Some storage bins: those Trofast and those Trofast 8 @ 4$

Tools:

• Nails + hammer (for moulding)

• paintbrush (to paint moulding)

• screwdriver + screws (for table legs)

Assembly

I didn't take as many detailed assembly Pictures because i was in a rush to finish this for christmas (started on the 23rd )

• First I made legs for the "table" from 2x4's. They are glued and screwed to the underside of the table. See the picture.

• Then I painted the legs black

• I cut the moulding to size and painted it black

• Cut, glued and nailed the moulding to the top of the table and Expedit bookshelves.

• Installed lego base plates and glued them (lightly).

• Installed the storage bins and that's about it.

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