So this Summer, while Kennedy was away at a week-long soccer camp, we went nuts on the room.

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:.For our DIY baby gate we used the 2 long identical sides from an old disassembled crib.

These particular parts worked well for 2 main reasons.

First, the upper and lower rails were very close to square and secondly, the spindles were not wider than these upper and lower rails.. (These are the ideal dimensional consistencies to work with and require no modifications.It’s kind of hard to take a really nice, book-worthy photo of something in need of cleaning, really, and sometimes the way that I make my blog photos work is by changing the shape or angle of a photo.

Or I just use the ugly photo anyway but it works because it still provides you with the info you need.But that won’t work for a book of course!.

And then the other problem was that I’m not a mind reader.There were a few photos that I thought actually turned out really nicely and would be really fun additions to the book, but the publishers really didn’t think they showed what needed to be shown for those particular parts of the book.