My step-sons really wanted a Lego themed room. We have a million of them around and I was trying to figure out some inexpensive ways to create something for their walls with Legos. So I went out to the shed in the yard and looked around at the heaps of lovely stuff (junk) everywhere to try to find inspiration. My eyes fell upon some old bed slats against the wall. Having boys, we have had plenty of beds that didn't live up to expectations. Furniture just isn't made to stand up to rowdy boys anymore. I always keep the bed slats though because the kids always seem to break them. So I brought them in and painted them a high gloss white (which we already had because it is also the trim color in their room). I figured up a nice amount of spacing and started gluing Legos to them in varying colors.
I used Loctite to glue the Legos on. The drilled holes you see are inset screw holes that were already in the slats. Once I had all my Minifig platforms glued on, I decided to see how they would look.
After I figured out where I wanted the Minifigs on each platform, I hung the slats on the wall using the pre-drilled screw holes. I chose to hang one over the closet door and one over each of the windows because I didn't want the boys taking them down or messing with them. Many of these Minifigs had been my older son's and he didn't really want them in his room (he is 17) but he didn't want them messed up either. This turned out to be the perfect storage solution for something we wanted to keep!
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