Walk-Thru Top of Stairs Baby Gate, Farmhouse Collection

I was looking for something that didn’t look like a typical baby gate. I took a chance on the color because it looked a little lighter in the example picture but it matched our stairs exactly! It was hard trying to open the gate at first but you get used to it. If I had the second chance I would definitely buy this product again!

We love this gate! We really didn’t want to have anything bulky or difficult but we needed the safety for our toddler. It looks very nice while having great function. We just ordered another one for another place in our home. The set up is simple, I am not handy and I was able to complete with no assistance. A great deal for the price too.

This is very sturdy and has worked great! The 4 stars is only because it's hard to figure out how to open and close if you've never used it before like our guests. You have to push, push, pull to get it open and you have to push the lever on it to get it to lock in place. Great for who you're trying to keep in or out, but more challenging for people who want to get in and out. Otherwise, great durability and good color.

Difficult to make work with our stair layout but easy to install and kid pet proof

We have now ordered our fourth one of these guys and LOVE them! There are not many baby gates as affordable and good looking at this one. Fits very well with our modern farmhouse design! Not sure why the bad reviews. We think they are extremely easy to install and open. We've even installed on on the bottom of our staircase bannister using a piece of wood and safety ties. I will say, these need to be screwed unto studs or using dry wall screws because our child like to bang the gate back and forth and one set of screws not in a stud did come out. Easy fix with dry wall anchors. People always comment that we got such nice baby gates and I always say, well, they are like the cheapest ones! They will be up for a while because we are expecting number two (two under two) but the brackets can be left on the wall and you can take the gate out if you were wanting to take them down for something.

Been using this as our baby gate for the kitchen. Fits perfectly in our normal doorway. We didn’t add the feature to make it only open one way and it’s been great. Looks nice. Sturdy enough that my now-toddler shakes it and it doesn’t open. Lock is easy to use.

This is the 3rd gate of this style I have in my home. I was so excited to see that it was now available in a stained finish with black hardware vs the unstained version with tan hardware like the 1st 2 I own. I’ve tried other gates that ended up falling apart or weren’t convenient because they didn’t open. This gate is sturdy and very easy to open with one hand. The only suggestion I have is that I ended up using stronger screws than what is provided. The screws included aren’t super strong and I actually had the head of one break off when it hit resistance screwing it into a stud. Everything else about it is great.

This toddler gate is effective in the most basic sense of the word because once properly installed and closed it will keep your child out; however with the other options out there I would never recommend this gate to anyone. Installation: The installation is relatively easy. It requires you to put several holes in the walls or door frame, but the advantage of gate that screw in versus tension is that when they are open you get virtually the entire width of the door or wall. With tension gates you end up with a much narrower passage and a bar across the floor. This gate has a decent paper guide to help you put the screws in the correct location. Operation: Here is where it goes downhill. The fence itself has a quick removal feature, so that whenever the gate isn’t locked shut you can remove it just by lifting it out of the mounting bracket. This seems nice in theory, but the entire point of using a mounted gate rather than a tension gate is that you retain almost the entire width of your door or hallway, so you don’t need to remove it very often. When you do remove the gate it’s tricky to get back in. You’ll have to align the two hinges on the gate with the two mounting brackets, and they don’t like to line up by themselves. Usually you’ll need two hands. This wouldn’t be a big deal except the gate easily pops out of the mounting bracket when you are opening and closing it. There is no reason they couldn’t have put a pin or lever to lock the mounting bracket on. The gate is also very tricky to close. If you are accustomed to a tension gate you can easily open and close then think again. To close this gate you have to maneuver the lower gate crossbar into the lower locking mount then slide the top crossbar into the corresponding upper locking mount, while holding open the lock itself. This is made much trickier because the gate itself doesn’t slide very well. It gets stuck at certain expansion points and you’ll need two hands to break through the sticky point while still guiding it into the locking holes. If you are putting it someplace that doesn’t happen to hit a sticky point in the expansion then it isn’t as bad, but if you have to overcome a sticky point each time you close the gate you will very quickly want to rip it off the wall. Finally the gate doesn’t have any feature to fix it open. If it isn’t locked it’ll just swing whichever way the wind blows it. Save yourself the trouble and look elsewhere. Update: because the bottom crossbar is longer than the top it is possible to undo the top but still have the bottom stuck in the retaining bracket, which can cause a trip. The gate is also flimsy or than expected, and my two-year-old was able to break some of the vertical slats. Once one was broken out he was able to squeeze through. I’ve used a bunch of duct tape to reattach it while I wait for better product to arrive. All in all, I consider this gate money down the drain as well as having put a bunch of holes in my wall to install it.

We bought our first gate two weeks ago and the third gate came yesterday. Best choice for our needs. We were going for aesthetics and reliability. Our one year old stands at the top of the stairs and rattles the gate like a caged monkey and the gates hold up nicely. Wood is darker than appeared in the original listing and box, which we were happy about. The width between our stairs are different from gate to gate and required some creativity to extend them and fit them properly. My wall joists rarely lined up with where I wanted my gates so I used drywall toggle bolts (115lbs) for the top of stairs gates and drywall anchors (35lbs) for the bottom of stairs gate. The trickiest part is screwing the brackets in accurately so that the gate is straight. I made lots of mistakes to get them straight. Some cool advantages: 1. Gates are quite loose in the brackets so there is little strain on the walls and anchors each time the gate is opened and closed. 2. Gates can lift out of the brackets and put aside at anytime, or can be attached anywhere else there are brackets in your home. You would need to buy their top of stairs accessory kit ($11 on the company's website) if you want to install brackets elsewhere in your home. 3. Very simple to use. My wife and 15 year old son have no problem getting the gates open, although my son now steps over the gate when it's closed. The third top of stairs gate came a little warped so it's not as simple to open and close, but it does the trick. UPDATE 6 MTHS LATER: Gates are great.

Excelente, instructivo fácil de seguir, buen material, ligero

It is easy to use and assemble and wood is lighter to use and decorative too

Por el color, resistencia y tamaño queda perfecto para usarlo en cualquier parte

Decent gate, not as strong as I was expecting but for my purpose of keeping a 12 pound dog upstairs, it is perfect. My gate did not visually look warped, however it was clear it is once I got to screwing in the latches. Meaning that it is important to follow the step where you put the latches on the end of the gate to see where they sit and mark the holes. My latches are crooked, but they match the exact warp of the door so everything slides open and closed just fine. Pictured are top and bottom latches, top is quite crooked to the left while the bottom latch is more to the right on the post. I am choosing to not be bothered by it as it functions just fine.