Features:

  • Wood, Metal
  • Pressure mounted installation, for use between rooms and large openings
  • 32-inch tall gate fits openings 36-60 inches wide
  • Extra wide hinged swinging door opens in either direction
  • Easy one-handed open and close operation
  • Oak and slate metal finish
Best Purchase!

This gate is FANTASTIC. I use it to keep my dogs in half the house while I'm at work and this gate does the trick wonderfully. I love that it swings in whichever direction you are walking, so there is no added movement of having to step back to open the gate. I'm sure that sounds lazy, but it is just an added convenience this gate offers. I also love that the gate portion several inches wider than a lot of gates. When I'm home I'm able to leave the gate fully open, and it doesn't intrude on the flow of walking through the hallway at all. If I have a basket full of laundry there is no extra lifting to go over the gate, etc. The people make the gate must have taken note of all the people complaining about how 'poorly made' this gate is by being 'bent' and not lining up. There is now a giant yellow sign that says it is SUPPOSED to be bent. As you fit the gate into place, it lines up so you KNOW you've got it in right! Very convenient. My space was exactly 36" on the top, and a little narrower on the bottom due to molding, so we removed the tighteners on the bottom, but the gate wouldn't close right. It fit the space, but when you'd try to lift the gate or put it back down it was sticking really badly. Upon further inspection, the bottom bolt closest to the hinge was pressed against the hinge inside the gate. My fiance cut the bolt down by about an inch (we clearly didn't need the extra length) and when we reinstalled it, it fit like a glove. Wonderful gate! I'm so happy I got this one! Pros: - Wide gate opening - Swings in either direction - Will stay open - Aesthetically appealing Cons: - Stubbed my toe on that bottom bar, have to remember to not shuffle like a hermit

Nice looking, sturdy, well built gate with wide opening

I've dealt with a LOT of baby/pet gates over the past few years, working with a pet rescue and as a pet foster family. Superficially, this one resembles most - it's got a one-hand-operation latch, it uses pressure pads at top of bottom of each end, it has some extra removable sections to adjust to different sized openings. The devil is in the details, and this gate gets a lot of details right. First the expansion sections - they fit TIGHTLY into one another and to the gate, the whole unit is a solid structurally and visually cohesive construction. Second the gate itself - it's quite wide compared to most, very easy to walk through. Third the finish - a very nice dark finish metal on the fence portion, with a slightly lighter wooden gate. I'm using this gate as a barrier to keep my dogs from rushing the front door when we have visitors. It's part of our living room, so having it look - if not exactly attractive, at least unobtrusive - is very important. The opening I have is about 55" so I used all but the smallest 4" expansion, and it's quite sturdy. If I could have one thing different, I'd like an auto-close option but typically that feature is hard to come by on a dual-swing gate, so overall I'd rather have the dual-swing and no auto-close. Very happy with the product and the price.

Summer Infant Decorative Wood & Metal gate.

The Summer Infant Decorative Wood & Metal gate is great. I have a wide door opening to fit a gate into to keep both my grand kids and two dogs out of our living room that has off white carpet (our kids had moved out and never thought of grand kids with dirty feet walking on our very light colored carpet). This gate is extremely easy to install that anyone can do. The directions with the gate were easy to follow, but it was so easy, I didn't have to read the directions, just find the correct size extensions, place them into the gate and turn the outside brace screws snugly into the door opening to hold the door secure. At first it appeared the frame of the door was slightly out of square to the opening, but when the screws to hold the door into place were tightened into the door opening, the door frame became square and fit perfectly. The door functions perfectly and easily drops into the mechanism to keep the door shut. excellent quality, and looks great in the door opening between our entry foyer and living room. Also, unlike so many other gates we checked out, this has a wide opening, so it's easy for all of us to go through without having to turn sideways or to even get our large vacuum cleaner through the gate while we go through. We sometimes move furniture from our living room to family room and the wide opening of the door makes this easy to pass the furniture through. The gate is easy to operate, slide the spring tension lock out so the gate can be lifted to swing open. It's great, the gate can swing open in either direction, meaning if we have items sitting in our foyer it's easy to open the door into the living room, and at times when we move our table next to the opening, such as during Christmas when we set up our tree in our living room, then the gate can open out into the foyer area to enter the room. Our older grand kids can easily open and close the gate, but our younger grand kids, under 2 1/2, cannot open the gate, which is great, keeps them from taking in their chocolate milk in their little cups into the living room and accidentally spilling the chocolate milk onto our new carpet or from going through the gate and climbing our stairs to the upstairs, great safety addition for our young grand kids. A great product and I would highly recommend it for any family wanting to keep kids on one side of the gate, or for families who have even large dogs, we have a large male boxer dog, to keep them from entering the gated area. The gate is made from excellent materials. Takes only a few minutes to assemble and includes the one tool it takes to assemble (love it when companies include tools in with their product to put it together). I hope others find this review useful, as it is very easy to set up, stays in place even when the kids rough house around the gate or when our large boxer tries to force himself through the gate, it does it's job very well. It's an excellent looking gate with fits in with the decor of both our entry foyer and living room. The opening of the gate is 27" , which is far wider than many gates that are 16" to 17" wide.

LOVE MY GATE for our GSD puppy

LOVE MY GATE for our GSD puppy! The mechanism is a little odd with a push-back and lift deal, but once you get the hang of it, it is fairly easy. What I especially like is the wide opening. It is much wider than your typical 'fancy' gates. Helps with carrying things through. I purchased this for a very low price because it was considered an open box. Actually it came in the product box and was slightly scuffed. NO PROBLEM - can't see it and I would have eventually scuffed it anyway! Overall - very pleased with this purchase! Important to note: the door actually stays open, which I absolutely love. My other gates are self-closing.

Gate bends at extention point. Manufacture Fixed! Yea

I wrote the review below because the gate bend at the extension joint. Talked to the manufacture of the gate (SummerInfant.com) and they are sending me a replacement gate and a return label for me to send this gate back. Excellent customer service and for that I am giving four stars. I love the gate but not the bend at the gate section and the extension. Prior review: The point where the extension meets the gate bends and cannot seem to get it tight enough to keep it from bending. There must not be long enough tube where the mental insert goes into the gate to keep it from bending. don't know what to do to fix. will call the seller/manufacture to see why it is bending at that point. other similar gates that I have don't bend at that point. I can't tighten or screw in the ends any more either. wish I had not purchased this gate. I purchased it because of the wide human opening. I didn't think that the point of failure would be where the extension that was included and the gate portion. Never had this happen before. Plus the packaging for shipping was NONE and the box was all beat up. the gate had a couple of scratches on it that I can touch up and can be fixed, but don't know how to fix the bend at the extension. We have a doggie door and a small 8 ft run inside of our garage where we wanted to put the gate. Keeps the dogs from running out the garage when we open the garage door. This isn't going to work. The deck doggie run is solid and does not flex or bend like the gate. We had another gate with a smaller door that worked fine for ten years. It was getting worn and decided to purchased one with a bigger gate. Bummer.

Something even baby Houdini can't break out of.

Our baby seems to be the Houdini of babies. When we put her on our bed, no matter how many barricades of pillows and blankets I put in her way, she seems to manage to get by them in order to practice her platform diving skills. Her first day in her playpen she seems to have figured out how the door works perfectly, and from time to time when I'm in there with her she'll leave it and then lock me in :) Lately, she's been fascinated with the kitchen. When her mom and I are in there cooking, she seems to love crawling in there. Our kitchen, like most kitchens, is filled with all kinds of dangerous things--scalding pots and pans, knives, fresh trash, and giant heavy containers of stuff. In other words, baby's favorite "toys". We tried barricading her with boxes, heavy water bottles, and anything else we could think of. She'd be on the one end crying, there'd be a few seconds of silence, and then she'd be on the other side smiling. A friend gave us an old baby gate to use, but our kitchen is an open doorway that measures 43 inches, much larger than that gate could handle. Also, we're looking to sell our apartment and don't want to be drilling any holes. I turned to Amazon to look for wide gates that didn't require drilling holes and came across this one and a few cheaper-looking ones. We first had our misgivings. In the pictures, the gate looks pretty strange. The colors don't seem to match (dark grey and wood?) and for some reason both my wife and I thought the wood door was going to be really thick. But we threw caution to the wind and ordered it anyway. The shipment came in one box that was really thin and really, really big lengthwise and widthwise. Inside slipped out the big gate (with wooden door attached already), three metal expanders joined together, and four giant screws with round cap on the end, which I'll explain below. At first glance the gate also appears to be broken--the door does not appear to fit into the gate properly. I assume there were a lot of complaints about this, so Summer Infant provided a notice in big letters tied to the door that assures you that this is normal and that it will all look perfect once you install it. The first thing I noticed is that the gate looks a lot different in person. I had imagined a thick, unwieldy gate, but the actual width of the gate looks quite elegant at about half an inch thick. The colors were also surprisingly attractive--the grey has a brushed slate feel, and the wood door is a lovely oak stain that coordinates well with our hardwood floors. As often is the case the instructions weren't the clearest in the world, so I had to figure out assembly on my own. The "metal expanders" help you elongate the gate to be appropriate for your doorway...it accommodates anything from 36 inches to 60 inches. The manual will tell you which of the three "expanders" to use (the other two you can save if you ever want to install your gate in another opening in the future). I had to use the medium expander, so I slipped it into the side of the main gate, no problem. Note that while the extenders are specific lengths (10", 7" and 4") they can accommodate any size opening from 36 inches to 60 inches without a problem, down the the millimeter. The next step is to place the four large bolts into four holes at each corner of the gate so that the "cap" (which are actually two pieces, a knob to tighten the tension, plus the actual pad that holds the gate to the wall) is facing outward. At first I was confused because the large bolts just slipped into the hole loosely, but I'll explain that below :) Your next step is to position the gate so that it's center to your doorway. They have a cheap metal wrench that doubles as a cheap metal ruler for you to measure. And then this is where the magic happens. You don't screw the bolts into the gate, but rather by turning the tension knob you literally expand the distance between the gate and the pad at the wall, using pressure to "squeeze" the gate, the bolt, and the wall together. (P = F/A for you physics types). You don't want your pressure to be so soft that the gate doesn't stand up, and you don't want it to be too hard that you end up gashing a hole in your wall. But find that happy medium, and you have a gate that'll withstand baby's best efforts to knock it over, and you never had to drill a hole in the wall. The installation took me about 10 minutes. The result? Baby did her usual crawling into the kitchen and then realized the gate was there. She tried all her tricks and the gate stood strong. After a few minutes she sat back and started crying. My wife couldn't help but let out an evil laugh--the culmination of weeks of her trying rescue baby from sure disaster in the kitchen over and over again. We walked over to her and gave her a big hug, and set out a few brand new toys on the outside of the gate. That, plus mom's reassuring voice to her every few minutes, seems to have satisfied baby...for now. Definitely recommend this one.

This gate, wall pads and an adaptor...and voila!

I was a little intimidated at first, but this is an easy secure setup! I used it at the foot of the staircase and because I had to secure one end of the gate to a spiral wooden post, in order to make it work, I had to buy an EZ-Fit: Baby Gate Walk Thru Adapter Kit for Stairs + Child and Pet Safety - Protect Banisters + Walls - ONLY includes (1) adapter side. There are three different sized extensions included with this gate (I used the single 10" extension) I installed the EZ Fit adaptor on the spindle and then installed the gate. I also purchased the Austor Baby Safety Wall Guard Pads Installation Saver Protect for Pressure Gates to protect the faux finish on the one wall. The gate latch is designed to push in the tab and pull up the gate and the same in reverse to close. It is super secure on the staircase and is really good quality material. I love it and highly recommend it.

Stylish and sturdy!

I bought this based on the reviews I read here on Amazon and I have to say I'm quite pleased so far. I received it yesterday and was able to assemble and install it myself in less than ten minutes. Although it took me a few minutes to figure out how to use the wrench included, I didn't need my husbands help. I am using it with the three extensions included to block a hallway that is 58" wide. The walk through door does not have tension and will not slam shut after you walk through, like others. So I like that the gate can be left open when not in use but you have to manually lock the door in place each time you close it. Still, it's worth the money. It looks nice and has stayed put while my 10 month old and 3.5 year old pulled and pushed in it. Love it

Effing dogs.

So where did I spend Christmas Eve? At the E-vet. My dogs knocked a 1 cup pyrex measuring cup off the counter while we were gone taking a meal to my sick adult son. The glass shattered. Somehow they managed to lick all the meaty congealed beef fat off the glass. So after exams and x-rays for my two meat-heads, we came home with high fiber meals and my new-found desire to block their access to the kitchen. This gate, so far, has done well. I can prep food without dogs under foot. For reference, my dogs are 60 pounds and 83 pounds. The 60-pounder is agile and likely the instigator of ill-gotten gains. She can smell an open butter stick from the other side of the house, behind a door. Today, however, during a quick run to the store, I think she hopped the gate and stole a bag of rolls off the counter. Or maybe she did it as soon as I got home and walked in to complete my reviews. However she did it, she either jumped the gate or waited until my defenses were down (open), literally. My kitchen is going to have to be the zero tolerance zone for ANYTHING on the counter. Oh well. It will hold me accountable. I have another gate (non-walk through) to stack on this one if I ever HAVE TO leave with tempting items out, like I did on Christmas Eve. The materials are top notch. I love that this gate is: pressure-mounted (no holes to drill), wide, wooden and metal (visually appealing), taller, walk-through, and that the walk-through isn't narrow. I'm not narrow. Given that it's pressure mounted, it can be moved and taken down as needed. The three extension pieces make it so I can use it in different doorways. I do question the durability. That's why the three stars. It's looking a little like it could buckle or bow after time. I'll review when and if it does. It went up really easy. FYI--don't lose the tool for adjusting the tension. So it's a nice gate. I just have to keep my a-hole dogs out of the kitchen and keep every. single. morsel. up when I'm not home. effing dogs.

Sturdy and attractive

Very well built, looks like it will stand up to lots of use. We have 5 small dogs, so there's not much chance they'll take this down, but I wanted something that looks substantial while it keeps our fur-babies out of rooms down the hall. The metal pieces are very well constructed, and the wood gate is furniture-quality. Here's an installation tip: Center the gate so each end is an equal distance from your door opening. Then, make sure the top of the gate is lined up with the bottom. Use a level to start. You'll need to tighten the top screw adjusters to make the gate meet the lock. When you're close, stop to make sure the gate is still level. Place the gate next to the lock. If it swings on its own, you're not level. Adjust it until it'll stay where you put it. Then tighten the top until the plastic pin on the handle fits into the lock. You should not have to move the catch to set it in place, it should settle in on its own. If it doesn't, re-adjust the top screws until its "just right." I don't think you'll need additional wall caps. I've adjusted on mine quite a bit, and don't notice that it's marking up the wall.

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