I know we have a Lego collection/display thread - but this did not seem to really fit that topic.  Also, though this could be in the general theme, I really only post here and think it best applies to the folks here. Also, with all the mechanical/industrial-looking elements in the technic line I think this applies better than with regular Lego elements.  Jim - if you disagree feel free to move this topic.

I am still far away from my dream of building a real hobby/lego room, not for financial reasons but for geographic stability (Military therefore I move frequently).  Right now I live in Korea and I live right next to a wonderful store that sells beautiful wood slabs (completely legal, they have license for each piece they sell). 

By now many have probably seen something like the below.  "river" table, or resin tables.  They are all over on pinterest, google photos, or other sites.  Here are a few pics below but if this is new to you just google and you'll get tons of examples. 

 

 

 

 

These tables have the exact feel and look that I am going for in my future lego/hobby room.  It will have  a steampunk and industrial feel, with lots of natural wood, steel, and other metal features.  I recently bought two large slabs and was thinking of fixing them not with resin in the middle like these river tables, but with like metal rods or something like that. 

However, then I thought of this idea.  Buy one large slab, place it beneath, then place two, ends that are naturally mismatched slabs above with a grove in the middle that meets at both ends.  It would be easy to affix them together at the ends with industrial, stylish brackets, leaving the groove intact.  Something like the below.  The slab below serves as the bottom - you get the idea.  Instead of filling it with resin or other filler, fill it with Lego.  Use it as a functional, but also good looking table.  IMO - a great example of both function and form.  The elements could not spill to the floor when rummaging for parts, and the groove is still narrow enough that what you are building is not likely to fall into it.  The below are just shelves, not the actual slabs, I wanted to just image the thing with the shelves I had already bought.  So the real thing will be larger.  Thoughts? 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

That's a sharp looking table. 

There was a beat up dining room table left in the basement of my mom's 'new' house some years back.  She wanted it gone, so I salvaged most of it, and turned it into a 2'x5' table (w/ the leaf) that became my Lego building table.

Need bigger slot for lego but good idea.

Wait, are you living in korea now?

Yes.  In Seoul. 

Yea, the size of the slot can vary to whatever the person wants.  These pics were just to provide a simple visual.  Also, I don't think one would like to make it too wide, then your creation would continuously be falling in.  I think I want to keep it somewhat narrow to avoid this. 

I'd place the top planks the other way up, then little pieces wouldn't get lost under the overhanging edges.

The gap could be filled with clear expoxy embedded with pieces of LEGO (or that Korean clone brand of the brick).  It could be fun to have a sorting/building/drinking party and watch the guests try to pick up the embedded piece...

Blasphemous!! On so many levels ! 

I'd love to have one of this at home 

But I agree with others, I think the groove could be a bit bigger to handle more parts

As i mentioned....u can make it as big as u want. Ill play with it, but i think ill actually keep it kinda small. One, i dont want whatever the build it to keep falling in. Two, its not meant to house all my pieces obviously. In the background will be all my drawers. I only want working pieces in the grooves.