Barn Wood/handy person questions re: anti-tip kits

[nicolewi]

My husband has reluctantly agreed, for now, to let me convert an indented space room (big open doorway and then walls on 3 sides) off the pool table in our finished basement into....an American Girl room! This was definitely not his initial vision. The room is paneled in old barn wood--silvery-gray. I'm worried about putting big wire shelves up and having to use an anti-tip kit on the barn wood. Does anyone have any idea how much damage this would cause to the wood? If I'm going to be taking big chunks out to install anti-tip stuff, then I need plan B. I probably need to have anti-tip on some shelves if the girls will be making doll set ups on them and taking toys on and off. 

The room is actually set up, long-term, so it could have a nice game table in the middle. So we probably don't want to have doll land with shelves forever. Maybe a few years.

[dr.girlfriend]

Isn't anti-tip stuff usually just one screw and a strap? That's what most of the ones I've seen have been. I wouldn't worry super-much. At very worst you maybe might have to try to color-match putty to patch the screw holes?