We used various Cardinal brand gates. Always hardware-mounted and in some spots used their wooden brackets if there were suitable banisters. For the bottom of the stairs we had to use a super wide multi-panel wrap around contraption- not esthetically pleasing but when you have twins walking at 9.5 months as we did, priority shifts.
I know a lot of folks get pressure gates to work for them but I just wasn’t convinced they could withstand the double attack lol.

Looking for something

1) Safe
2) Easy to operate one handed
3) Easy to Install
4) Aesthetically pleasing