![]() At two years old, my oldest daughter can reach up to the kitchen counter, meaning the lowest bourbon shelf has to be at least 4 feet off the ground. This meant easy access to even the littlest of my people. And the whiskey itself, well who cares about that as it flows from the bottle onto the floor and all I hear is, “Daddy, look at the water!”Īs my collection grew, I didn’t think much about the fact that it was taking up so much space, which meant it grew horizontally as well as vertically. Bottle caps became nothing more than musical instruments when plucked from their resting place. You know you want to.” My trophies were now ACME anvils waiting to be knocked over, landing on unsuspecting bean-shaped toes. My beautiful open-faced shelves that proudly displayed my trophies from my legendary hunts became nothing more than a seductive jungle gym whispering to them: “Go ahead. It isn’t until you have kids that you quickly learn that everything in your house is now a climbable mountain that calls to your child to conquer. I have two kids under three, and they have shown me, and more importantly my collection, how ill-prepared we were for their arrival. ![]() But at this phase of my life, running out of shelving space is the least of my concerns. It took a few years but I’m getting ever closer to maxing out my shelving capacity again. Of course shelving remains relatively static, but my collection did not. I built floor-to-ceiling, open-faced shelving that was large enough for future expansion. Taking storage more seriously at this stage of my collecting career as my whiskey collection continued to grow and grow, I tried to plan ahead. But I quickly realized this wasn’t going to hold my ever-growing collection both from a shear numbers standpoint, but also from a structural standpoint. When I started buying an above normal amount of bourbon for one person, like many enthusiasts, I used whatever shelving I already had. As a bourbon enthusiast whose bottles long ago hit the triple digit mark (a milestone for any collector), displaying my bottles became just as important as the actual bottles themselves and the hunt to obtain them.
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