A good LEGO® Christmas village starts with one scale (minifigure scale, like LEGO’s Winter Village sets), a snowy base built in modules you can extend each year, and a layout with a street at the front and taller buildings on a raised back row. Add light, then one new building a year: the 2026 Winter Village set is the Holiday House ($119.99).
Below: this year’s sets, then the planning, from snow to lighting to packing it away.
Winter Village is LEGO’s seasonal line of minifigure-scale buildings for adults, with a new set most years. Prices on LEGO.com (US) on November 5, 2026:
Set 11387 · 1,354 pieces · Ages 18+ · $119.99
The 2026 Winter Village set: a Victorian-style house with a wrap-around porch, bay windows and a furnished two-story interior. A light brick makes the Christmas tree glow through the windows, and it comes with a horse-drawn sleigh, a snowman and four minifigures.
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Set 10361 · 956 pieces · Ages 18+ · $129.99
The 2025 Winter Village train: a locomotive, tender, flatcar and furnished end car on a 16-piece circle of track made to run around a holiday tree, with a platform, four minifigures and two instruction books for building together. It can be motorized with Powered Up parts, sold separately.
If you can find it elsewhere in time, it is the set that makes a village move.
On backorder at lego.com (“will ship in 60 days”), so it won’t arrive from LEGO by Christmas.
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Set 40809 · 498 pieces · Ages 10+ · $39.99
A candy-covered gingerbread house that opens to show Santa’s desk, fireplace and bedroom, with a Santa minifigure. About 6 inches tall: a table centerpiece or a village cottage.
Not a Winter Village set, but it is built around a Santa minifigure and opens up like the village houses, so it can sit at the end of the street.
See it on LEGO.comOlder Winter Village sets such as Santa’s Post Office (sold out on LEGO.com), Holiday Main Street and Alpine Lodge (both retired) now come from the secondary market (BrickLink, eBay), where prices vary.
Prices, piece counts and stock are from LEGO.com (US) on November 5, 2026, and they change often, especially around Insiders Weekend (November 21–22) and Black Friday to Cyber Monday (November 27–30). We’re independent of the LEGO Group and earn nothing from these links.
Mixing scales is what makes a village look like a pile of sets. Choose one:
If you do mix sizes, use perspective: larger buildings at the front, smaller ones on the raised back row, so the difference reads as distance.
A village is almost always seen from one side, like a shop window. Plan it that way:
The building every visitor asks about is the one they recognize. Many fans design their own village houses, a church, a bakery or a cabin, from bricks they already have. Or make it your own home:
Custom design $19, any size · Bricks sold separately, about $60–$110 for 500 pieces
Not a LEGO set: Your World in Bricks designs a model of any simple detached house from a few photos, with an illustrated instruction book and a parts list for real LEGO® bricks, ready within 24 hours. The bricks come from LEGO® Pick a Brick, BrickLink or the bins they already own.
Our house designs are display models sized by piece count, not built to minifigure scale, so a small one suits the back row and a larger one becomes the centerpiece. The house is designed as it looks in your photos: add the snow yourself with white tiles along the roof edges and lawn, and a wreath on the door.
Design a house from photosLoose bricks take longer than boxed sets. LEGO® quotes about 5 days for Pick a Brick Bestseller pieces and up to 28 business days for Standard pieces in the US (LEGO® Help, as of October 2026); BrickLink depends on each store. Our custom designs themselves are quick: usually ready in about an hour, delivered within 24 hours. Running late? Wrap the printed instruction book and let the bricks follow.
Holiday House (11387): a Victorian-style house with a wrap-around porch, a light-up Christmas tree, a horse-drawn sleigh, a snowman and four minifigures. 1,354 pieces, $119.99 on LEGO.com.
The Winter Village sets and most fan-built villages are minifigure scale, with houses roughly 16 to 32 studs wide. Microscale villages, a few studs per house, fit a mantel or shelf.
With white plates, leaving studs exposed for fresh snow and tiling paths smooth. Add white slopes and round plates for drifts, and put a felt snow blanket underneath rather than loose fake snow, which gets into the bricks.
Battery LED fairy lights behind the buildings and transparent pieces in the windows are the simplest. Some sets include a light brick, and third-party kits made for specific sets light the inside of each building.
Yes. We design a brick model of your house from photos, with instructions and a parts list for real LEGO® bricks, within 24 hours; it isn’t built to minifigure scale, so choose the size by where it will stand. Or turn a winter photo into brick art.