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James May's Toy Stories - Lego House, Denbies Wine Estate, originally uploaded by Cybermyth13.
They started by constructing hollow "bricks" out of 272 individual lego bricks. For safety reasons they used a wooden frame and constructed the lego walls around the frame. As the "bricks" were hollow, they went around the wooden supports without touching them, so the lego was in fact self-supporting.
When the house was complete, the presenter James May spent a night in the house including sleeping on a bed made of lego. Unfortunately it was too expensive to move the house, so soon after completion the house was demolished, with the lego being given away to charities.
Until recently this was my most viewed photo, probably because it looked so odd.
Construction took place during August and September 2009. The TV programme was shown in the UK in December 2009. I have a set of photos on Flickr of the construction and demolition (click here) and on my other blog. Conor's pix (click here).
The completed building
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It's such a pity LegoLand couldn't take this as it was. Their visitor numbers would have shot through the roof but I'm guessing it still wouldn't be enough to recoup the costs of taking it apart, transporting it and putting it back together.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he actually did spend the night in it. It had to be agonisingly uncomfortable so I'm betting he didn't. I'd love to think that he really did though. Me, I'd settle for a property in London, although that'll take me a while save for. It would probably be cheaper to get James May to build a lego apartment for me! Still, I'll get there. :)
From the TV programme he did actually spend a night there, after a house-warming party the evening before. He even had a shower in the morning but the water dripped through to the ground floor
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