Since beginning my quest for some über cool Stair Gates? I have become quite disparaged, not just at the range ? but oh baby jesus the price!
I have a thin entrance into my kitchen (not comical, you don?t have to turn sideways and breath in etc) but its not a standard doors width by any stretch of the imagination.
Then worse still, my stairs are off set ? so that the bottom of the stairs (which is the bottom of an ?L? shape doesn?t have a corresponding banister pillar opposite it (its actually one step up)
So my idea was to use Lascal KiddyGuards ? as they are fabric ? and I can attached one side to the front of the banister pillar (on the step above) and connect it to the side of the banister pillar on the bottom step.
Yes ? if taken from an birds-eye-view it would stll be a slightly squiffy line ? but it would work? Kind of.
Same can be said for the Kitchen conundrum ? as the KiddyGuard is fabric ? it doesn?t matter that the gap is quite small.
However, here?s the swift kick to the nads? They are ~£100? EACH!
I cant find any other retractable style stair gates? and a standard ?pressure fitted? stair gate wont fit in the kitchen ? and wont work on the stairs :(
Worse still ? I've just paid for the entire downstairs to be decorated ? so drilling holes in my newly glossed banisters would actually make me die a little inside.
Are there any other alternatives?
Anyone have any ingenious ideas?
Eek ? Help!