Frank Filz's Office

My office serves as my work from home office (I'm a full time remote employee), my gaming room, and my Lego hobby room (shared with our two girls). I did almost no cleanup for these pictures, what you see is what it typically looks like most of the time (while I am actively building Lego it gets much messier with bins of Lego all around my desk, also if the kids are playing, they will have Lego all over the floor).

The thumbnails below are links to image hosting on Brickshelf, from there, you can navigate among the pictures or click on an image to see a full resolution version.

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Another angle towards the desk. This gives a good view of the major Lego storage at the back of the room.

Next I will show closeups of the back part of the room with my desk, starting from the left and ending with the desk:

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There is a small work table opposite my desk. When I am working on a large Lego project this would be the worktable. Other times it has papers (sorry, I cleared my bills off before taking pictures...) and various parts of my Lego sorting system.

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Under the worktable is storage for laptop bags, gaming stuff for the games I'm currently running, some miscellaneous computer stuff and a drawer with some small Lego parts containers. The games currently represented here are D&D (AD&D 1e and BX with Judges Guild's Wilderlands of High Fantasy setting materials), Classic Traveller, and RuneQuest.

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Here's all the stuff that was behind the worktable. The stack of snap together bins (Sterlite brand) contain carriages, wagons, boats, and dragons for my Lego castle display. The big tub contains bags of overflow parts for the small parts drawers in the other half of the room.

The wall behind the worktable has three bookcases, with Lego stacked on top of all three.

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The top shelf is most of my RuneQuest material (well, there are 3 other sections in the room). Under that are a bunch of Snapware Snap 'N Stack bins that hold Lego castle minifigs sorted by faction or type. Below that is my complete run of Dungeon Magazine.

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The top sheld of the 2nd bookcase is Plano tackle boxes with small Lego parts. Below that is a shelf of Lego instructions and graphic novels (Asterix & Obelix, Tintin, and a few others). Next are two shelves with Sterlite drawer units with various Lego parts, wit one drawer having office stuff and another having scrap paper). The bottom shelf is another shelf of Plano tackle boxes with small Lego parts.

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The third bookcase has gaming stuff on the top shelf (overflow RuneQuest and other Chaosium games, D&D boxed sets (with the Master box having the BECM and a few other books, the Expert box has B and X modules, and the Companion box has random other stuff), D&D modules, Blackmoor setting, more Wilderlands setting, other random gaming stuff, and more Traveller stuff. The next shelf has more Snapware Stack 'N Snap with Lego castle minifigs, a bin of Lego magazines, and some instructions. The next two shelves have smaller Plano tackle boxes and more drawer units all with Lego parts. The bottom shelf has more large Plano tackle boxes with Lego parts and minifig parts, and my 35mm slide projector and slides.

You can also start to see the Lego storage on the back wall.

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And a better view of the storage on the back wall without the mobile units in front of it (sorry, hard to get the bottom with the desk in the way).

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And here's my desk. Ordinarilly there are two laptops, you can see the power brick and docking station for the second, but it's off for repairs at the time of this picture, it literally went up in smoke. Against the wall are shelves, with the top shelf mostly occupied by Lego books, but there is a small section of RuneQuest books. The magazine files hold tax information and stuff like that and 2 years of Consumer Reports magazine. The next shelf has computer books and Traveller boxed sets (with extra booklets inside) on the left, and original D&D plus supplements, Arduin Grimoire volumes 1-3, Burning Wheel, and a bit more computer stuff on the right. The rest of the stuff on the desk besides the pictures and stacks of CDs (yea, I actually listed to CDs, though I now have almost all of my collection digitized) is miscellaneous stuff.

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Under the desk is a TV cart with more Lego and some Lego storage containers filled with minfig legs.

Now for the front half of the room.

The painting of the leopard was gifted to me after we returned from our trip to Europe when I was 9. We had rented our house out and the renters gifted the picture to me. It is one of my favorite pieces of art. Another favorite is the Lego Space 1984 poster. Between those two is the first patent I was awarded.

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After the filing cabinets, there is a TV cart with my Lego sorting system. And because people like to see how others sort their Lego, some detail shots:

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This tray (which is the box from Lego set 6600) is filled with sorting bins which are the plastic tubs that Trader Joe's Non-Pareeils come in.

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And then more trays with parts. The two with "mushroom bins" are sorting, the other three are storage of miscellaneous parts, some of which are destined to be listed on Bricklink for sale.

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And then small parts drawers with small Lego pieces. The girls are often standing on an ottoman to reach these drawers for their creations. Among the parts are tiles which they love to use to make mosaics.

Inside the closet:

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First is drawers of Lego parts I have up on Bricklink for sale. Also some unopened set storage (don't go looking for those Chinese New Years sets on Bricklink, I'm not selling those, most of the other sets ARE for sale).

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Next is a farm table that the kids use to build on. Behind is a bookcase mostly filled with model railroading books and magazines (do I have too many hobbies?). Under the table is more wrapping supplies and a big box with dog beds and stuff in case we get another dog.

And that concludes the tour of my office.

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