{"id":8575,"date":"2015-04-06T13:03:33","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/?p=8575"},"modified":"2015-04-06T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T17:04:00","slug":"lego-desk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/lego-desk\/","title":{"rendered":"Lego Desk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posting the photos of <a href=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/maggies-crib\/\" target=\"_blank\">Maggie&#8217;s new doll crib<\/a>\u00a0made me realize that I never shared the pictures of Adam&#8217;s lego desk.<\/p>\n<p>One of the items I was searching for last summer (during my Craigslist binge) was a desk for the boys&#8217; room. I hoped to find a cheap desk I could repaint and glue some lego plates on. I ended up finding this desk, which was cheap ($25), and also in really good shape. I didn&#8217;t even need to repaint it. However, it was almost too nice, and I didn&#8217;t want to permanently attach the lego plates to the top.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-07-12-15.16.23.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8576\" src=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-07-12-15.16.23-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"2014-07-12 15.16.23\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-07-12-15.16.23-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/2014-07-12-15.16.23.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, last October when Dave&#8217;s parents visited, they helped him build\u00a0this tray to place on top of the desk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_151625.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8577\" src=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_151625-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"20141105_151625\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_151625-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_151625-375x300.jpg 375w, http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_151625.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It turned out perfectly and Adam loves it. The plates are glued to the tray and the lip around the edge prevents any bricks from falling off the tray and also keeps the tray itself from shifting or falling off of the desk.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_193405.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8578\" src=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_193405-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"20141105_193405\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_193405-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_193405-375x300.jpg 375w, http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_193405.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_193416.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8579\" src=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_193416-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"20141105_193416\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_193416-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_193416.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_194710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8580\" src=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_194710-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"20141105_194710\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_194710-300x240.jpg 300w, http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_194710-375x300.jpg 375w, http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141105_194710.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The tray comes off of the desk easily\u00a0and can be moved to the floor when we have friends over, or if Adam wants to use the desk for coloring or other non-Lego activities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141106_160129.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8581\" src=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141106_160129-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"20141106_160129\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141106_160129-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141106_160129-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141106_160129.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141206_092324.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8582\" src=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141206_092324-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"20141206_092324\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141206_092324-240x300.jpg 240w, http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/20141206_092324.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a>It&#8217;s an awesome creative space and gets a lot of use, by all three kids.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Posting the photos of Maggie&#8217;s new doll crib\u00a0made me realize that I never shared the pictures of Adam&#8217;s lego desk. One of the items I was searching for last summer (during my Craigslist binge) was a desk for the boys&#8217; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/lego-desk\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8575"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8584,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8575\/revisions\/8584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grimmfamilytales.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}