Amy C's Profile

We have an open three-story staircase with open risers and no balusters. We call it the stairs of death. We hired a professional baby proofer (we were afraid to tackle it ourselves) to install lexan, which is thin bullet proof "glass," behind the risers and along the banisters. It has worked out well. Everyone is alive and we still have the open look. But we still worried that our kids might try to jump over one of the landings so we have made a point of never letting them play on the stairs. We had gates at every floor but have recently removed all but the one on their bedroom floor. I think they get that they can't fool around on them, and we are hopeful that we will will be able to remove the lexan in a few years.