LEGO Kitchen Island

By Alex in Architecture, Home & Garden, Pictures on Apr 2, 2010 at 2:19 am

Most kitchen renovation projects are slow enough as is, but can you imagine when teeny tiny bricks are involved? It must’ve taken quite a long time, but the LEGO kitchen island sure is a thing of beauty:

The idea for Simon Pillard and Philippe Rossetti’s Lego kitchen sprouted five years ago, when Pillard put 500 blocks and a day’s worth of work into building a Lego-legged chair. The designing duo—–who create products together under the name Munchausen—–recently gave the seat a colorful companion. They covered their kitchen island—–a simple wooden block—–with 20,000 Lego pieces.

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  1. The Razors Edge
    Apr 2nd, 2010 at 4:04 am

    I couldn’t imagine the amount of work that woulk take to build, but it is very cool to see it. I hope whoever built it was being paid well to do it

  2. James (Not May)
    Apr 2nd, 2010 at 4:33 am

    Wooo, a kitchen counter.

    James May (well, his helpers) built an wntire freaking HOUSE out of Lego.

  3. Lauren
    Apr 2nd, 2010 at 9:37 am

    A long time to build? Really? Speaking as a preschool teacher, I think it would take a couple of kids an afternoon. (And the labor would be cheap.)

  4. felixthecat
    Apr 2nd, 2010 at 9:44 am

    All the little tiny spaces between the 20,000 Legos will soon be clogged with staph and strep bacteria, making nice black lines to highlight each block.

  6. JustinO
    Apr 2nd, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    I would imagine you could do this rather easily as big chunks while sitting on the sofa and then tie them together. Indeed that’s the way it looks from the picture, like large sections tied together. You could even have a party and have each guest contribute a section.

    @felixthecat – I would imagine that they covered the entire surface in some type of clear varnish or sealant. At least that’s what I would do.

  7. D Curtiss
    Apr 2nd, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    Legos are expensive as hell. Let’s do the math… on the Lego web site (http://shop.lego.com), the price for the 650 piece LEGO® Basic Bricks Deluxe is $29.99. For 20,000 pieces, you would need about 31 of these kits, bringing the total to about $930 before tax & shipping. We’ll, I guess it’s cheaper than granite.

  9. @seemasugandh
    Apr 5th, 2010 at 8:58 am

    I want to know what glue/epoxy/etc they used and why they chose not to personalize it. :-)


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