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Kerry Elsworth & Kelly-Ann Mills

Dad spent six months and £1,500 creating incredible Lego-themed bedroom for son

A dad has spent £1,500 and six months making his four-year-old son an incredible Lego-themed bedroom filled with 100,000 bricks.

The colourful transformation of little Michael's bedroom was truly a labour of love for factory worker Adam Hood, who dreamed of being a carpenter as a teenager, but had no prior building experience.

Using trial and error, Adam, a lifelong Lego fan, built Michael a bunk bed which appears to be entirely made of the giant colourful bricks in the family's three-bed terrace in Bromsgrove, Worcs.

At the same time, the married dad-of-two was painstakingly amassing a huge new Lego collection after scouring car boots and charity shops - and supplementing it with the same pieces he had as a youngster.

Former cobbler Adam, 36, said: "I have always been a massive fan of Lego from when I was a kid. The thing I love so much about it is you can do anything you like - the only limit is your imagination.

Adam Hood, with daughter Roseanne, son Michael and wife Samantha (William Lailey/Mercury Press)

"I have also always been keen on DIY, but before this I'd never taken on such a massive project.

"I wanted to be a carpenter when I was younger, but when I left school there were no apprenticeships so I became a cobbler instead. This was a chance to scratch that itch.

"When I put all the new Lego I collected in Michael's room, I discovered I still had a box of my own Lego from when I was a kid so I added that too.

"Together, our collection has grown tremendously over the last few years - we must have 100,000 bricks now.

"When Michael saw the room for the first time, he was totally gobsmacked - more than anything because I'd been collecting Lego for six months that he knew nothing about.

"People that have seen it say 'you're such a good dad' but more than anything, I wanted to show the kids if they try hard enough they can do anything they want to - nothing is impossible."

Michael, 4, playing in his new lego room (William Lailey/Mercury Press)

Adam started the project in May, when he changed jobs from his previous role as a cobbler and had weeks off at a time in between long factory shifts.

He created the Lego-shaped bunkbed frame from a single huge sheet of MDF before meticulously gluing on 200 wooden dots to give the bricks their familiar appearance.

Adam then covered the whole structure in layers of perfectly-applied brightly coloured paint to give the illusion the bed is formed out of giant Lego bricks.

He scoured car boot sales and charity shops for new Lego packs - buying tens of thousands of bricks - and estimates he spent £1,500 on the transformation in total.

His dad spent six months getting it ready (William Lailey/Mercury Press)

After keeping Michael out of the room for the last eight weeks before the big reveal earlier this month, Adam captured his son's adorable reaction on video - as well as the hilariously jealous strop thrown by daughter Roseanne, eight, who is now demanding her own 'animal disco'-themed space.

And while wife Samantha, 31, a nurse, was exasperated at the length of time the project took, Adam said she was proud of him for seeing it to completion.

He estimates if he had been working on the project for eight hours every day, it would still have taken him three months to finish.

Adam said: "When we moved in 10 years ago we decorated to make it ours, but we'd had kids since and it was time to make it a space for them too.

"Roseanne is extremely jealous and has already asked for her room to be decorated in an 'animal disco' theme.

"My dad Peter helped me with the build, but other than that it was just a case of trial and error.

"It was stressful at points and felt like it was taking forever but I'm so proud of how it turned out.

"Samantha thought it would never be finished but she thinks it looks amazing now.

"It was hard work without a doubt, but it's definitely paid off."

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