We have a 1.5 year old who climbs everything. Literally spends all day trying to climb on stuff. I've had enough, so today I built this. Pretty proud of it considering I'm a novice at this type of stuff. The biggest challenge we had was that there was no real way to gate off the stairs as you can see from the 3rd picture. We had a gate that we slid back and forth between the bannisters, but he figured out how to move it so I had to find a way to block it off for good. I built another gate just like this at the top of the stairs but didn't take any pictures. I tied it down with zip locks (it's actually very sturdy for being so heavy) because I didn't want to put holes in anything and it needed to be easy to remove and put back. We're expecting our 3rd son in a few months, so I figured it was worth it to spend the money to not have to deal with this again. Built, stained, and mounted both gates from scratch in 1 day, not bad eh?