Love this baby gate! We want a baby gate to separate my son's toy area where he could still see us give him his own personal space and this baby gate does just that! He can still see us and the baby gate is adjustable depending on our needs. Great deal and awesome baby gate! Update: Let me simply start off by saying that I wanted the best of the best when it came time to buy our first baby gate for our son, and so, I did the research! After reading numerous reviews on the pros and cons of what felt like hundreds of baby gates I finally settled on my top five! My idea was to buy them all, inspect in person the quality and safety of each gate and then make my decision accordingly. The top 5 options were: 1. Regalo Easy Step Arched Décor Walk Thru Baby Gate 2. Summer Infant Multi-Use Decorative Extra Tall Walk-Thru Gate 3. Regalo Easy-Open Wide Baby Gate 4. Evenflo Soft and Wide Gate, Emery (this one!) 5. Regalo Super Wide Adjustable Gate and Play Yard I wanted to make sure to take multiple things into account such as security, safety, various wall attachments and extensions (if any), pressure mounted baby gates versus free standing, the ability for my little one to see me, the ease and functionality of the gate and the ability for it to work safely and securely with my staircase. I did decide to get a longer baby gate to get a wide variety of options as well! Overall, my experience can tell you that this is definitely one of my favorite baby gates, hands down - so if you want to ignore the rest, go ahead and do so and just buy this gate already!! If not, keep reading :). The Summer Infant Multi-Use Decorative Extra Tall Walk-Thru Gate was very pretty in person, a lovely bronze color and had a beautiful arch. It installs easy, comes with all necessary pieces to pressure mount or screw it in to your wall etc. This baby gate felt very safe initially. Only downfall, the mechanism at the bottom that prevents the baby gate from swinging in the wrong direction broke off easily and not long after purchasing it! Also, my roommates felt it was one of the most difficult to open and because of the tension from what I can only assume is a self closing feature, it seemed somewhat dangerous when it quickly swung back at us with intense pressure! After using this one for months I would definitely say it was my least favorite and came in the #5 spot. The Regalo Easy-Open Wide Baby Gate was a solid, sturdy and well built baby gate that again came with every imaginable piece to safely install it depending on your needs. I felt as though it lasted a decently long time before the handle mechanism broke - even after this is still worked just with it's quirks. This was a simple white baby gate and did a great job but I'd rate it #4. The Evenflo Soft and Wide Gate in Emery was the perfect median of all of the baby gates. It adjusts to fit a large variety of spaces easily and felt impressively secure considering this bonus feature. (Most baby gates are not wide enough for certain doorways hence the extender bars which can sometimes make them too wide so this was an awesome choice for fitting those pain in the butt spaces!) I really enjoyed that my son could see me through this gate and I ended up using it to separate his play area from our living room. This one gets my #3 rating! The Regalo Super Wide Adjustable Gate and Play Yard is simply a beast of a baby gate. This thing is awesome!!! It self stands and can be configured in so many ways and is so sturdy and secure. I could go on and on - I LOVE this baby gate. We ended up using this baby gate to keep our little dude away from the fire place. Literally not one negative about it - but keep in mind, my search for a baby gate was for the top of the staircase, which is why this one came in the #2 spot! The Regalo Easy Step Arched Décor Walk Thru Baby Gate (this one!) trumped all and came in first place for me! (Although I did enjoy various features of the other gates for different purposes!) This gate is extremely well made, so sturdy and safe, connected beautifully to my wall and provided my little guy with the safest option for the tip of our stairs! My husband couldn't push this thing down if he tried! It's THAT secure. (That being said we did purchase stair rail adapters that worked the absolute best with this gate! Also highly recommend!) This gate is both functional, easy to use, absolutely beautiful and has withstood the test of a now 2 and 4 year old in addition to multiple roommates when others continued to break. Highly recommend!
