Modifying Lego Wizard Shop into a Music Shop

I got this set not because I'm into Harry Potter, because I'm not, but because I really like the looks of that building. I like the storefront. It's this building and maybe to expand it because it really doesn't go very deep. But I like the looks of the windows. I like the lights. I think these bulb lights look really cool. The signs are okay. It's got signs there too. The storefront window is okay. I guess there's a little knob you can turn in the room. It does something different. I don't like that so I probably won't add that. But the thing with Legos is you don't have to stick to what it comes with. You can do what you want and I am going to do just that. So I built it. I have modified it which is basically a witch shop and I didn't want a witch shop It also comes with this cute little... Ice cream shop. Which could be displayed like that. Here's the other side and the ice cream patio. You have it like that. This. You can even close it up. There's kind of an entrance in there. It could be a little corner place. Street here. Um that's okay. I'm not too interested in that part of it. This was the one that I really loved its style. I love the windows. I love this color. I just love the overall style with a little gabled roof. The sign is cool. The lights are cool. I love those little details, the lamp, and I just like the style of the front of the building. So you're not limited to what the kit comes with. The bags are numbered 1-7. There's two books, one book for this building, 5, 6, and 7, that's the building I want to start with, and this is 1, 2, 3, 4, is that building, so I'm going to put those back in the box, and I'm just going to work on this. Now the stickers, I'm going to use those window stickers and these signs. I may not use all of the stickers that came with the set, I'll have to see which ones I like, which ones serve my purpose, and which ones I don't like. The base plate, I'm going to skip. This is the first character and I'm going to jump right into the building. Start with envelope number five. Smaller envelope. Last Christmas I bought myself a Lego kit and well I kind of got hooked. I didn't realize how much fun it is to build with Legos. I'm 65 years old. Soon this month I turn 66. And I'm just getting into Legos. You know what? You never Never too old for Legos. You always want to make sure you check the bags. You might accidentally throw away a bag that's got Legos in it. Legos are precious. I'm going to start going to thrift stores and secondhand shops and get my husband to search on Facebook Marketplace for used Legos because that's another good way to get cheap Legos. On the next page, see what got used for you so that you have a place to be seen. And she wants to lay on the blocks, of course. Let's have a show where it's something that goes in the show. Cute. This could almost be a little pet shape. These little decorative things here. You could put like a keyboard on here. And that could be a little piano I'm going to go grab some things. And I'm going to play with this little piece. I think it's supposed to be this big door handles for like a doorknob to pull out. I'm not sure why. We have this here, but I'm looking at this little thing thinking that would make a great little piano if you wanted to put a piano in our house. Yeah, I know, I like it. Maybe I'll turn the shop into a music shop. See, that can make a cute little piano. You don't need these things on the back of the piano. You can just have a smooth back. And maybe it might be nicer if it was with a black shiny top or the same color. As of wood, but I've seen the top. Oh, there we go. Oh, this is not long enough, but you get the idea. See? It could be a cute little piano. I just made that up. That is the beauty of wood. One thing inspires another It's helpful to gather all the pieces as you go to assemble. I've never seen that piece kind of a mechanism. Oh, here's the bottom. I haven't put the stickers on yet, because I want to decide whether or not I want to have it as this little dial that makes the remote move, and I don't know if I'll keep that. But I'd like to build it as a set says, and then I'll modify it. The signs, I like the way they look. It's hard to put them on straight. It has a gap for these little windows. It seems so tiny. Together, it's a big store sign. That's clever. Almost got it. I seem to be missing a piece... Maybe I used the wrong, the wrong piece. Two of them, but the wrong piece. But it's the style of the building. I may change it on the inside because I don't really want it to be a witch shop where they sell brooms. These are witches' capes. This is what that is. I didn't use all the stickers, I used some of them. But it looks pretty cool. It's clever how this was held on because there is a brown thing in here with a hole all the way so that It's attached to that, so when this piece is on, it holds this, so this won't come off. It's attached here and there, so that's clever. Come off that way. I'll leave that blank for now. I don't want to put the signs, because I don't really want it to be a good shop. Save those. That was cool. What do you think, Cat? Do you like it? She don't? What do you think? Is it good? Is it good? There's a light. I didn't do that light. I guess I have a little bit more to do. So I built it but I have modified it and I'm going to show you that in a minute. Which is basically a wood shop and I didn't want a wood shop. It also comes with this cute little ice cream shop which could be displayed like that. Here's the other side and the ice cream patio you have it like that. This you can even close it up still kind of an entrance in there. It could be a little corner place. Now you can have street here. That's okay, I'm not too interested in that part of it. This was the one that I really loved its style. I love the windows, I love this color, I just love the overall style with a little gabled roof, but I have modified it. On the box here, You can see there's a little dial and it has a mechanism to turn to make the broom move so it looks magical. Well I'm not into witchcraft, I'm not into Harry Potter, I just like the style of the building. So I took that out and I just replaced that little space there with another copying what they did here and there and I put, well I didn't have a 1x2 so I just put an oval One there just to continue the frame and that filled up that little hole but the front I left it just as is. But what I've done is I have expanded it. Now it right here is where it stopped and yeah I'm missing the right color so I'll have to replace that. I added some tiling and I'm not completely finished. I want to put a piano in here or maybe two pianos. I want to make it into a music shop. Upstairs we have a lady who is giving singing lessons instead of a witch's wand. She is using a baton to work with her students. So this is a musical room and she's an award-winning music teacher because there's her trophies on the shelf. So I kept the layout pretty much the same. I did not use all the stickers that came with the set and I may change the display over over there in the corner at some point. But I copied the floor pattern upstairs and just kind of made a balcony and I added an awning with these little these little flags. So I expanded it out a little further and Made it a little bit bigger than what it originally was because I really liked this style of building. I like signs. I did not add the signs stickers here because I'm going to change that to a music store. But, you know, you could take a set that maybe, you know, you're not into like me. I'm not into Harry Potter. But I love the style of the building. I just like architecture. I like old style building. I think that the sign is cool. The lights are cool. I love those little details, the lamp. And I just like the style of the front of the building. So you're not limited to what the kit comes with. Use your imagination and make it into something you like. Of course, I did make it a little bit taller. um because i wanted it to all fit together nicely and i wanted a complete floor on the top the way that it was designed it didn't have a complete floor it just had like an angled floor and i wanted a complete floor and see it was no design there see i took out i took out that mechanism right there so i left it i left those cabinets But I may change that at some point and I'll probably put some jumper tiles so that I can fix the piano and somebody sitting behind the piano playing it. The walls are plain because I just didn't want the stickers. I want to encourage my grandkids to play with Legos and to inspire them so that's why I like to have some stuff pre-built because I found that when they come They come over and they start playing. They don't get to make too much for the short time that they are here. But if there's something already started, then they could just add to it or modify it. And then get ideas and start something new with all the leftover bricks that I have. And I want to encourage them to play. And I want my sets to be... able to be played. That's why I want this open in the back so they can put their hands in and they can move the people around and they can do a little storytelling of their own. One other thing I learned about LEGO is if you find a LEGO store that has a brick wall, you can fill up a box. This box, fill it with whatever you want. You just pick whatever Parts you want and this box cost $9.99 and the size box costs A $14.99, basically $15. I put random blocks in them. I've already taken them out and used them. But this one, I've got plans for a future build. And so I'm collecting. It is so much cheaper to get blocks like this than to order them individually on the Lego site. You'll spend a lot more money. I mean, I got a lot. I didn't count them, but I got a lot for $9.99. And it probably would have cost me a whole lot more. And I packed it full. I packed that one full too. When I made the building a little bit taller, I used these right here to fill in the gap between. this part and the lower part and that seemed to work good. I have collected these out of a bin on the pick and I wanted to find more of these colors with these individual singles and so that's all I had to expand the wall here and here. Eventually when I get some You know, 1x2s or 1x4s, I will redo that part. When you go to pick a brick, you can only choose from what they have. But it does save you money buying them from a pick a brick wall. We have a piano and a pianist sitting on her piano bench. And we have a student who is taking singing lessons downstairs. Lessons have begun. And upstairs, we have voice lessons. We have three students attending class with an award-winning music teacher who's waving her baton to direct her students. So, the witch shop is not a witch shop, it has become a music shop. I hope you enjoyed this build, this modification, turning a witch shop into a music shop. I left the top as it was, but that's just a random piece. I was running out of colors. So that's why I've got this random color here and that random color there. I'll replace them when I get. The replacement blocks. Oh, I was looking through the Lego website and I found a guitar and a bass instrument. So I will be adding more instruments to the music store. I need to figure out some stickers for my signs. Isn't it a cute building? I love it. I hope this project inspires you to get creative with your Legos and make something that you enjoy. Thanks for watching.