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Need advice on baby gate for extra wide doorway
My 13-month old has started crawling and cruising like crazy and the time
has come to baby-proof our living room. However, the doorway that separates the living room from the kitchen is 71" wide, and I haven't been able to find a baby gate yet that will fit an opening that large - the largest I have found so far is 60". Does anybody have any suggestions? |
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Need advice on baby gate for extra wide doorway
In article qgnRa.67350$GL4.17303@rwcrnsc53,
Erin Candell wrote: My 13-month old has started crawling and cruising like crazy and the time has come to baby-proof our living room. However, the doorway that separates the living room from the kitchen is 71" wide, and I haven't been able to find a baby gate yet that will fit an opening that large - the largest I have found so far is 60". Does anybody have any suggestions? KidCo E'longate: "KidCo E'longate is a wall mounted gate with a door on the end. White metal construction, a very clean look.. with 4 extensions it reaches 13 feet (the maximum recommended by KidCo)." Found it at SafetyMatters.com (http://safetymatters.com/bigimage.cfm?sku=44) but you may be able to find it closer to you (and save on shipping). I've got one of these across a 6'+ doorway -- it has worked well and withstood much abuse from my children. - marty (mom to Andie & Alex, 2.5) |
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Need advice on baby gate for extra wide doorway
Marty Billingsley wrote:
In article qgnRa.67350$GL4.17303@rwcrnsc53, Erin Candell wrote: My 13-month old has started crawling and cruising like crazy and the time has come to baby-proof our living room. However, the doorway that separates the living room from the kitchen is 71" wide, and I haven't been able to find a baby gate yet that will fit an opening that large - the largest I have found so far is 60". Does anybody have any suggestions? KidCo E'longate: "KidCo E'longate is a wall mounted gate with a door on the end. White metal construction, a very clean look.. with 4 extensions it reaches 13 feet (the maximum recommended by KidCo)." Found it at SafetyMatters.com (http://safetymatters.com/bigimage.cfm?sku=44) but you may be able to find it closer to you (and save on shipping). I know onestepahead.com carries very long gates, as well. -- Sara, accompanied by the baby barnacle I check this e-mail account infrequently |
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Need advice on baby gate for extra wide doorway
Erin Candell wrote:
My 13-month old has started crawling and cruising like crazy and the time has come to baby-proof our living room. However, the doorway that separates the living room from the kitchen is 71" wide, and I haven't been able to find a baby gate yet that will fit an opening that large - the largest I have found so far is 60". Does anybody have any suggestions? We had exactly that problem, but in our case it involved a wall on one side. If you have that too, here's our solution. We bought the 60" fence and put a bookcase against the wall. It comes forward about 12", just enough to be the closing part of the fence. The fence looks a bit wobbly, but so far DS has tried every trick and it is still standing firm. As an alternative, if you don't have a wall but just a plain doorway, you could put a bookcase in the livingroom and let it extend into the doorway just enough to close the fence. If you're talking about the Evenflo fence, you can just leave it attached to the bookcase when it is open, so you won't bump into it. Do you get the picture? It's a bit hard to explain in just words... -- -- Ilse mom to Olaf (07/15/2002) TTC #2 "What's the use of brains if you are a girl?" Aletta Jacobs, first Dutch woman to receive a PhD |
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Need advice on baby gate for extra wide doorway
Have you looked this one? KidCo Configure Gate
http://www.kidsurplus.com/kcog80.html (I gave this URL just because the price looked a bit better than elsewhere, but you can get extra panels for it if this isn't long enough. Mary G. |
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