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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here, we have one wall to wall stair, one wall to banister, and one banister to banister, so I suppose we might need three different gates.  We also have an upstairs landing where the stair banister continues (not sure how to describe this, but it is basically slats).  I see there are clear banister shields, though not sure if this is overkill.  Baby is seven months and just starting to crawl, so it is hard to fully appreciate right now what we need to do...   [/quote]

At the top of the stairs you need a metal swinging gate. At the bottom you can do a retractable one which is nice to not have it in the way. We attached a magnetic door stop to our metal one with cable ties to keep it open because otherwise our dog gets stuck.

For the bannisters, the thing to do is to attach a piece of 1x2 or whatever size wood to the newel posts with zip ties. Then screw the gate hardware into that. We also have a piece of wood screwed to the wall in another place (with anchors of course) and the gate is attached to that because otherwise it wouldn’t clear the baseboard. [/quote]

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