![]() Purchase clear book covers so your child can’t access or damage books without first removing the protector. This way, you can ensure that the books aren’t catching their eye. Use a curtain to cover your shelves when they aren’t in use. Alternatively, there are some great ways to keep your book safe without removal: Using curtain: One option is to eliminate the shelves that house your collection and replace them with something more child-safe, such as closed drawers, cupboards, or cabinets. To hide your books before your child starts becoming curious, you have two options. Ultimately, it will take some time, but this will make your bookshelf much easier to navigate when you have a baby! You can also choose which ones are most important/valuable enough to stay out lower down on easy-to-reach shelves. Then move only those piles higher up onto the shelves, where they won’t be accessible anymore! Once you’ve got everything separated, but all of the one type in piles next to each other. Wrap similar items together so that you don’t have stacks of 15 different cookbooks in front of every other category on your shelf. Then label each one with its contents – for example, “history” and “literature.” It is best to divide the contents of your bookcase into several boxes or plastic bins. Moving the books up to baby proofing bookshelf by putting them in a box or drawers. /// U P D A T E /////Ġ8.15.14 We recently figured out a sturdier and perhaps more attractive way to babyproof our stairs.This one is one of the cheapest methods of all. I may still go back and do that.Īll in all, it looks WAY better than the black plastic netting that was there when we moved in and I am generally happy with the results! Not a total DIY success, but not a complete failure either – and I’m ok with that. In hindsight, I think we also should have put zip ties through the middle of the plexiglass sheets for added support, instead of just the top and bottom. ![]() If you had a child who was constantly banging up against them, you might want to go with the plastic KidKusion Banister Guard instead, because plexiglass does crack with enough pressure. They were interested in the guard at first, but now they never touch it. I am still researching ways to fix it and make it less noticeable.īut the most important thing is that it keeps our kiddos safe. You can still see the streakiness and it’s kind of blotchy, but it’s bearable. When all was said and done, I wasn’t too upset over how they looked. I already knew I wanted to hang them in the middle of the railing (vertically speaking), because it adds a little more visual interest than if they were flush with the ground. We forged ahead and my husband and I starting hanging them on the railings. I felt like a DIY failure (much like my baby gate project), but decided to make the best of it after all, the money had already been spent. ![]() I’m not sure what caused this, other than to guess it’s just what happens whey you spray a glass spray on plexiglass, which is… not glass.Īnyway, I cried a little on the inside when they were done because they looked kind of crappy. But as I started, I realized it was really hard to keep the frosted look even, and there were weird streaks showing up on the plexiglass. I tested the glass spray on the plexiglass and it seemed to work fine, so I went ahead and sprayed the remaining sheets. The total price was cheaper than the Banister Guard, which made me do a little happy dance. So I purchased 4 sheets of plexiglass from Hobby Lobby, along with some frosted glass spray because I really wanted them to be opaque (I felt like it would up the style factor a bit, plus you wouldn’t be able to see the inevitable smears and kid saliva). I had been trying to find affordable plexiglass because I really wanted to recreate something like the pricey railing guard shown in this post, but I kept coming up empty. ![]() When it came to the space between the railings, I was all set to use the Clear KidKusion Banister Guard (and had actually already purchased it from Amazon), until I ran across poster-size sheets of plexiglass at Hobby Lobby for only $6 each (say what?). That’s what led to these red baby gates that I made from a $30 door purchased at Home Depot. ![]() I searched the web to find ways to babyproof our odd banisters and stairs, because conventional baby gates weren’t working and the previous tenants had come up with some really unattractive options. You might remember my post a few weeks ago about ways to stylishly babyproof the home, particularly the stairs. ![]()
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