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LEGO Life Hacks: 50 Cool Ideas to Make Your LEGO Bricks Work for You!
Get ready to hack your life, LEGO style!
This book is bursting with more than 50 smart ideas to streamline your life and accessorize your space. You'll find stationery hacks help you organize your desk, cool ideas to make the most of your tech, and gadgets to blitz your boring chores. From a speaker that amplifies your phone, a weekly planner made of LEGO bricks, and a catapult that flings paper into the wastepaper basket, these ideas will make your LEGO bricks work for you. Discover ways to personalize your living space, from photo frames to brick-built houseplants, plus smart ways to display your favorite LEGO builds and minifigures. These creative ideas will inspire you to use your LEGO bricks in awesome new ways.
With amazing images, easy to follow step-by-step instructions, and handy tips for further building, this book will take your building to the next level.
©2021 The LEGO Group.
This book is bursting with more than 50 smart ideas to streamline your life and accessorize your space. You'll find stationery hacks help you organize your desk, cool ideas to make the most of your tech, and gadgets to blitz your boring chores. From a speaker that amplifies your phone, a weekly planner made of LEGO bricks, and a catapult that flings paper into the wastepaper basket, these ideas will make your LEGO bricks work for you. Discover ways to personalize your living space, from photo frames to brick-built houseplants, plus smart ways to display your favorite LEGO builds and minifigures. These creative ideas will inspire you to use your LEGO bricks in awesome new ways.
With amazing images, easy to follow step-by-step instructions, and handy tips for further building, this book will take your building to the next level.
©2021 The LEGO Group.
- GenresNonfiction
128 pages, Paperback
Published April 20, 2021
32 people want to read
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D.K. Publishing
9,022 books2,108 followersDorling Kindersley (DK) is a British multinational publishing company specializing in illustrated reference books for adults and children in 62 languages. It is part of Penguin Random House, a consumer publishing company jointly owned by Bertelsmann SE & Co. KGaA and Pearson PLC. Bertelsmann owns 53% of the company and Pearson owns 47%.
Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.
Source: Wikipedia.
Established in 1974, DK publishes a range of titles in genres including travel (including Eyewitness Travel Guides), arts and crafts, business, history, cooking, gaming, gardening, health and fitness, natural history, parenting, science and reference. They also publish books for children, toddlers and babies, covering such topics as history, the human body, animals and activities, as well as licensed properties such as LEGO, Disney and DeLiSo, licensor of the toy Sophie la Girafe. DK has offices in New York, London, Munich, New Delhi, Toronto and Melbourne.
Source: Wikipedia.
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June 25, 2022
Normally, I build designs from kits or come up with my own ideas for vehicles, houses, bases and hide-outs. This book is full of ideas to try out at home. It is great if you have some spare time and a box full of random Lego bricks. Kits are fun to build but sometimes it is better to see what you can do on your own.
The book has 55 different build ideas divided into 5 different chapters: useful tricks, tech hacks, upgrade your room, stationary hacks and wacky inventions. All the ideas will help you be more organised, keep your things or your room neater or are cool decorations. There are things such as: bookmarks, weekly planners, tablet stands, book ends, stationery organisers and display shelves. I really want to try building the display shelves for some of my minifigures or smaller models. The wacky inventions section shows you how to build things like a working catapult or a fidget cube!
There are some really creative ideas and each one has step-by-step instructions to follow which lots of useful photographs showing you what you can make and how to do it. I alway liked the section at the back with has tips about building and descriptions of all the Lego pieces that are available and what they are called. I think this is a book that any Lego fan would enjoy reading and it will definitely make you get out your bricks!
The book has 55 different build ideas divided into 5 different chapters: useful tricks, tech hacks, upgrade your room, stationary hacks and wacky inventions. All the ideas will help you be more organised, keep your things or your room neater or are cool decorations. There are things such as: bookmarks, weekly planners, tablet stands, book ends, stationery organisers and display shelves. I really want to try building the display shelves for some of my minifigures or smaller models. The wacky inventions section shows you how to build things like a working catapult or a fidget cube!
There are some really creative ideas and each one has step-by-step instructions to follow which lots of useful photographs showing you what you can make and how to do it. I alway liked the section at the back with has tips about building and descriptions of all the Lego pieces that are available and what they are called. I think this is a book that any Lego fan would enjoy reading and it will definitely make you get out your bricks!
January 18, 2025
I love love love this book. I think it's my favorite Lego book. It's so fun but also practical. It's filled with many really useful items made out of Lego bricks. There are clear pictures with a minimal amount of text in the instructions to make it simple, just like I've come to expect from a D.K. how-to book. Most use pretty normal blocks, i.e., the specialty pieces are standard ones an enthusiast would have. Only a few are truly unusual. A lot of the items are a little unwieldy and therefore unpractical such as the book marks and daily planner/calendar, but there are a lot here I would use. Some that are really pretty and/or professional looking.
For example, the card holder for little hands is perfect for my granddaughter. There's a phone stand, tissue box holder, book ends, and a fully functioning flashlight and pen! There are toys, like a kaleidoscope, zip line, and fidget cube. There are things just for fun like a box with a hidden chamber and secret decoders and some for decoration like potted plants but very few--almost everything is usable. Then there are some really useful ones for Lego artists: a brick separator for those tightly clasped pieces. (I haven't tried it so I don't know if it works but boy would it be great to have!
This is the perfect gift for the Lego enthusiast in your life or just for yourself. It's a useful book that can be used over and over again.
For example, the card holder for little hands is perfect for my granddaughter. There's a phone stand, tissue box holder, book ends, and a fully functioning flashlight and pen! There are toys, like a kaleidoscope, zip line, and fidget cube. There are things just for fun like a box with a hidden chamber and secret decoders and some for decoration like potted plants but very few--almost everything is usable. Then there are some really useful ones for Lego artists: a brick separator for those tightly clasped pieces. (I haven't tried it so I don't know if it works but boy would it be great to have!
This is the perfect gift for the Lego enthusiast in your life or just for yourself. It's a useful book that can be used over and over again.
April 20, 2022
So much for a “life hack”. Some of the more complicated builds like lockable safe and laundry lowerer don’t even have instruction on how to build. But the big question is, are those even qualify as “life hack”? It looks kinda cool, yes, but is it actually useful that “hacks your life”?
I don’t think things like tape dispenser would work as expected as the LEGO edges are not sharp enough to take a cut. Or that bookend thing, I just don’t think LEGO is heavy enough to hold the books in place.
Most of the stuff in the book, I would think it’s pretty much just ideas that probably won’t work. Just go out and get a new pen or a new lock instead of doing these...
50 ideas, but I think i would only be going for:
* potted plants (just looks nice not useful in any ways)
* playing card holder
* money box (coin piggy bank)
* photo frame
* door hanger
Just borrowing from the library or read at your local bookstore first before you decide to purchase. I don’t think there’s much value with this book, but you should give it a quick skim and decide that on your own. I personally felt being clickbait by the title, but that’s just my opinion.
I don’t think things like tape dispenser would work as expected as the LEGO edges are not sharp enough to take a cut. Or that bookend thing, I just don’t think LEGO is heavy enough to hold the books in place.
Most of the stuff in the book, I would think it’s pretty much just ideas that probably won’t work. Just go out and get a new pen or a new lock instead of doing these...
50 ideas, but I think i would only be going for:
* potted plants (just looks nice not useful in any ways)
* playing card holder
* money box (coin piggy bank)
* photo frame
* door hanger
Just borrowing from the library or read at your local bookstore first before you decide to purchase. I don’t think there’s much value with this book, but you should give it a quick skim and decide that on your own. I personally felt being clickbait by the title, but that’s just my opinion.
May 3, 2022
With two huge Lego fans in the house, this book went down a storm!
We loved the different hacks it gave us ideas for – from mobile phone and card stands to keyrings, bin hoops and fidget cubes, the boys have loved getting creative with this book! The photos and directions were very bright, clear and easy to follow.
Perfect for those Lego fans who need an injection of creativity when they are at a loose end and struggling for ideas!
We loved the different hacks it gave us ideas for – from mobile phone and card stands to keyrings, bin hoops and fidget cubes, the boys have loved getting creative with this book! The photos and directions were very bright, clear and easy to follow.
Perfect for those Lego fans who need an injection of creativity when they are at a loose end and struggling for ideas!
October 2, 2021
Perfect for Lego fans! You can read my full review here: http://vsviewfromthebookshelves.home....
November 2, 2023
This had some cute ideas.
I liked the phone stand, and if I didn’t have wireless ear buds, I’d make the headphone wraps.
I also liked the bookends, but the design was a little blah.
The cactus hat stand was cute, not for hats, but just as a cactus.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t give you a master list of parts needed for any of the projects.
I liked the phone stand, and if I didn’t have wireless ear buds, I’d make the headphone wraps.
I also liked the bookends, but the design was a little blah.
The cactus hat stand was cute, not for hats, but just as a cactus.
Unfortunately, it doesn’t give you a master list of parts needed for any of the projects.
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