LEGO Classic 11008 Bricks and Houses

LEGO Classic set 11008, Bricks and Houses, is a building box focused on simple, colorful house models.

Bricks and Houses belongs to LEGO Classic, a theme built around open-ended construction rather than a fixed story setting. Its subject is domestic architecture in a simple form, giving builders a framework for small houses while still allowing changes, rebuilding and personal combinations.

The set provides an assortment of bricks and elements suited to making house shapes, fronts, roofs and modest architectural details.

It is best placed as a creative play and parts-building set, useful for learning basic building choices or adding general elements to a collection. Within Classic, it sits as a starter box with a house-building focus, suitable on its own or combined with other brick assortments from the same theme.

Inventory of set 11008

The inventory of set 11008 lists 270 pieces, spare parts excluded: 121 different lots (one shape in one color) for 62 part shapes. The box also contains 8 spare parts, for small elements that are easy to lose.

Colors of set 11008

Main color: red, making up 15% of the parts, followed by white (14%) and yellow (12%).

Part types

Most common parts in set 11008

62 of the 62 part shapes in this set have their own page on Setopedia, with their colors, element numbers and the other sets that use them. See all LEGO parts

No part in set 11008 is exclusive: each one is found in at least one other set, which makes replacing a lost element easier.

Rebuilding set 11008 from another set

Share of the parts of set 11008 found in each of these similarly sized sets, counting shape, colour and quantity:

No similarly sized set goes above 37%: the model relies on a little-shared assortment, most of which has to be gathered piece by piece.

Size of set 11008 within its line

With 270 pieces, set 11008 ranks #50 out of 67 Classic sets in our database, which have an average of 620 parts. Among the 490 sets released in 2020, it ranks #186. That is less than half the average Classic set size.