(I meant 24 feet of shelf space, of course; it's just that I bought three of them.)

I haven't, but my husband has...we're just a few miles from the epicenter of the Loma Prieta quake ('89), and when my husband first moved here in the '80s he had this deplorable tendency to contruct room dividers out of those rickety metal shelves. After one landed on him in 1989, he gave that up.

I WILL bolt those shelves, I WILL bolt those shelves. At least, in the meantime, they're sitting on a slab floor, not on the second-floor loft of a 19th century barn as my husband's were!

Hey, Rapaire, didja ever think about ripping up some of that carpeting and trotting it over to the Tavern? It would really brighten up the decor and cozy up the room. Plus it wouldn't matter if the hot tub water got splashed all over it.