Baby Gate Slipcover

A stone staircase is wonderful 

but with two babies now old enough

to be crawling around

at

Purple Chocolat Home

we need to protect the little ones from falling

down the stairs.

These are the stairs leading to the basement 

from the kitchen so the babies are 

always in this room.

These stairs don't work for any baby gates -

they are too wide so  

 this has been our solution.

We got the widest gate we could

find and used bungees to hold it

in place.

Hideous!

It doesn't really go with the decor.

I had one of those moments the other day

- why not make a slipcover for the hideous baby gate -

and I went upstairs and found this wonderful

script fabric I had purchased  at

Hobby Lobby for pillows.

I just cut it to size - folding over the gate at the top

and returning down the back.  Then I finished

the edges and added ties.

Now that looks like it fits in my home

while keeping the little ones safe.

(The best part was that hubby came home,

noticed it, commented on it and loved it!)

I will post this with

Metamorphosis Monday

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