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Legomaniacs can do more than just build things from Lego bricks! You can display your passion in your home with furnishings made from Lego bricks, home products from the Lego company, and products that have that familiar (if not company-sanctioned) shape.

Design your own building block furniture with Luna Blocks, which come in many sizes and shapes, but all fit together. The only limit is your imagination!

Luna Block materials range from steel to pillow-soft foam. See a showcase of different furniture configurations at DVICE.

This lamp is 100 times the size of a Lego brick. It features LED illumination and snap-off nubs so you can store pens and such inside. Available from 25togo in Taiwan for about US $50.

Brighten up your computer desk with this building block USB flash drive. They look like the Lego bricks you love, and come in lots of colors. You might also be interested in a USB hand crank that can charge any USB gadget. Make your own from Lego bricks with help from Instructables.

Professional Lego sculptor Eric Harshbarger built this functional grandfather clock of Lego bricks, including the clockworks! The only parts that aren’t made of Legos are the weights and the filaments holding the weights. You’ll find many more Lego clocks in this list.

A firm once hired a highly-desired employee who stipulated that he wanted a desk made of Legos. The company said sure, but when they realized you can’t just go out and buy such a thing, they contacted Eric Harshbarger. He had the desk built in a couple of weeks, which involved putting 35,000 bricks together. Harshbarger then turned the desk upside down, disassembled it brick by brick, and reassembled it as he glued the pieces together! The price of the desk hasn’t been disclosed, but if you ever have the clout to demand such a perk from an employer, you have arrived.

Even the bedroom can get the Lego treatment with this Lego Make-N-Create Sheet Set, available through Amazon. You can also get Lego bath towels.

Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories recently posted several kitchenware items made from Legos, such as a napkin holder, fruit bowl, and a vase. These are simple touches that can be taken apart, so they could also be a way to store your Legos between other projects.

Your next birthday cake could be a Lego brick with this specially-shaped Lego cake pan. You can also use it to set Jello. When you bake the cake, keep track of time with a minifig timer.

That birthday party will need ice. Make yours in a Lego ice tray. You can freeze different colors of Kool-Aid in it to resemble actual bricks.

Instructables member SFHandyman made his own food mold using actual Lego bricks. This involves creating a negative mold of food grade silicone. He then used it to make jelly candy!

This flatware is not flat! Snack and Stack forks, spoons and knives have handles shaped like Legos, and you can lock them together for storage. Therefore, they don’t take up as much space as you’d think, plus they won’t fall out of your picnic basket.
Using all of these products at once might scare away members of the opposite sex, but if you find someone who shares your Lego passion, you’ll know in an instant.
Speaking of professional lego sculptors, here’s a link to Nathan Sawaya’s site:
www.brickartist.com
Be sure to look at his gallery…
posted by Jason! on 11-18-2008 at 10:28 am
slight problem with 25togo’s page. The Lego lamp would be a perfect gift for someone I know, but the page is in Japanese. And the translated page is not legible either. Anyone have any ideas?
posted by ashburnite on 11-18-2008 at 11:31 am
Maybe you could write to Technobab, the site I linked. Try this address: admin@technabob.com Someone there may have translated it for the article.
posted by Miss Cellania on 11-18-2008 at 11:38 am
thanks for the great article! my son loved legos as a kid and will soon have his first apartment. i just ordered the ice cub tray as well as a pair of 1×1 salt and pepper shakers for him for christmas.
posted by Shelly on 11-18-2008 at 12:32 pm
awesome!
posted by Dawn on 11-19-2008 at 4:33 am
(and)Here I was thinking I was clever.
I made a working Lego radio (transistor radio parts in a Lego case). Volume & tuning were Lego wheels. It even had a Lego dial to point out which station was tuned in.
When the base of a small electric fan broke, I crafted a lego base for it.
My hamsters had a Lego house in their pen.
posted by Tdave on 11-19-2008 at 7:28 am
Ugly!
posted by Zakopane kwatery on 11-24-2008 at 12:30 pm