Is there such a thing?

[FearlessLeader]

Is there any way to baby proof your house without sticking those godawful babyproofing bumpers and locks on everything? They all use adhesive and I really don't want to stick non-removable adhesive on my nice furniture. I've already caved on my "our child will only have taseful, natural, nuetral toys and they will remain in children-designated areas" vow wipes away tears of mirth at delusional pre-motherhood ideals

I haven't done any babyproofing apart from shutting the door at the bottom of the stairs and locking the cupboard with cleaning stuff in. Oh, and I have moved anything precious and breakable up higher. I'm on my third and no harm done yet :)

Our baby proofing consists of one babygate at the top of the stairs. And tbh that's more a containment tool than a safety thing.

We haven't really baby proofed our house, we dont even have stair gates
I taught DS from about 7 months to crawl up and down the stairs, which are really steep, only because I would rather him know how to get up and down than attempting it himself and hurting himself - once there is something in the way, there is a greater temptation to do things. A simple no works wonders. The only thing we have done is put those cap things on the plug sockets and moved anything fragile from lower shelves, we have a low coffee table against the wall in the lounge with frames and a vase and various nick-nacks and he knows not to touch them

yeah but then i have to, yanno, supervise or sumfink.

I was hoping i could just babyproof the lounge (lots of tables with sharp edges) and stick a gate on the door- kind of like a giant playpen...

How old is your child?

Mine is 21 months, and she doesn't play independently, so I have stuck a gate on the bottom, a couple of power point protectors, and that's seriously it. When she was first pulling up and practising walking there were some bumps, but that wasn't about lack of supervision. And honestly, my position has always been: is this likely to kill/permanently maim? no, then it's a teaching moment. So she's slammed her fingers in drawers and now she always takes her fingers out of the way. Etc.

I have locks on a few kitchen cupboards, with glasses and breakables, but that's really it.

Of course, ask me again with another child - I do have a very cautious one.

Those plug-point thingies are not recommended in the UK btw. I had a really sensible link about it some time ago, which I can't find any more, so this is my best offer

tortoise he is only 7 months and not moving anywhere yet, but i thought i'd get in early. I'm actually more concerned about him damaging stuff than stuff damaging him we are in a small pokey flat and the living room is jam packed with cupboards full of important documents, discs, crockery, etc. There's not anywhere else to put it all. There's also a desk and a couple of bookshelves with quite sharp corners, those ones are about his safety. I don't want to spend all day saying 'no, don't touch. Get down. Careful." etc etc

boogeek i'm in aus our plugs are quite different here i had a look at that site and don't think the same thing can be done with our plug covers

We only stuck the sticky bumper stuff on a particularly sharp table right next to the sofa (as it turned out DS rolled off the low sofas a lot, and would have brain himself without that padding)

Any other surface has had the inevitable head bump but he's got to learn somehow!

Shame you're in Aus - I'd have posted the cushiony corner stuff. :)

My Dcs are 10 and 12, so clearly were born in the dark ages

Having said this, I have no clue what babyproofing bumpers are. They do sound ugly though. If you are worried about uglifying your home with these products, I'd suggest you save your money.

Locks then. What do you actually need these locks for? Are you putting locks on your kitchen cupboards or something? Why not go all retro and only put safe things in the accessible cupboards? This will save you money on babyproofing locks.

The only thing I would recommend is those gizmos that bung up electrical sockets. I think they cost around 10p each nowadays (cheaper in the dark ages, obviously).

Fearless, I'd wait and see how his personality develops. You might get lucky, like me, and have one who doesn't explore much and stops what she's doing when she's told to (including keeping away from the open fire, in our case).

We have 2 cupboard door locks. One on the bin/chemical cupboard, one on the glass cupboard. They are the screw one's that go on the inside so you can't see them.

That's it.

Everything else has been taught, put out of reach, gotten rid off, has doors shut (bathroom and main bedroom)

Stair gate at the bottom of the stairs, more to stop the cat venturing up really. Cupboard lock on the lower kitchen cupboards, ever since my godson thought it was funny to tip rice in the cats bowl.
Fireguard for log burner in winter.

Thats it. Everything breakable/precious is out of the way.

Only a stairgate (top and bottom), socket covers and a fire-guard. Nothing else.