We don’t start up again until after Labor Day, but I still find myself in the “Back to School, Let’s Get Organized” mindset by the beginning of August every year.

We like this to be our living room, but unfortunately, the opening into the dining room beside is really big and just doesn’t work with regular baby gates.A couple of months ago, Chris came up with a solution that works really well.

It’s not only sturdy and effective at caging in our little wild animal, it’s also pretty too!So here he is with his tutorial for the baby gate made from an old crib!.A few weeks ago we posted a Christmas Home Tour to showcase the Christmas decor around our house.

As is common here at The Creek Line House, at least one picture inadvertently revealed a little of our ‘reality’, that is, reality of life with 2 young children.Let’s play spot the baby gate:.

Luckily this time, our reality generated a little interest and we received a few requests on how we salvage-DIYed our baby gate to cover such a large opening.

This is a tough one to put into words and the success of the project – as with most salvage projects – is incredibly reliant on your access to the appropriate recycled components, but let’s give it a shot anyway:.I insisted that I knew what readers of this type of content would be motivated by and would find actually useful in their real-life lives because I. am.

a reader of that type of content!.So being the reasonable people that they are, the publishers said that if I was really passionate about it, there would be pictures.

And it could have been as simple as that..I said I would mull all these things over for a few days, and I would look at the cover design they would show me too and see if I felt any better about that title that I had said I hated earlier.