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Cabinet and drawer babyproofing

sdlaurasdlaura member
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Our kitchen renovation is almost finished - yay!  Looks like we may actually be able to cook Thanksgiving dinner in the new kitchen.

I wanted to see what has worked best for everyone else for cabinet and drawer babyproofing.  I know some people just move breakable/dangerous stuff to upper cabinets, but DD is really adventurous and so we'd like to have her unable to open them.

This type is what we used in the old kitchen for cabinets:

https://www.albeebaby.com/kidco-cabinet-drawer-lock.html?utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_source=googlebase&cvsfa=4248&cvsfe=2&cvsfhu=6b6964636f2d636162696e65742d6472617765722d6c6f636b&gclid=CPyH4b7-87oCFTJp7AodaGsA_g

Are there any options that you like better?

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  • LindsayDesignerLindsayDesigner member
    We have a few locks like that on our drawers. Honestly, they didn't work very well. Most of them are broken now. We keep the dangerous stuff in the higher cabinets and let her go crazy with the towel drawer. image
    We have a few of these on our side by side cabinets.
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  • TapthathankTapthathank member
    L12541 said:

    Our kitchen renovation is almost finished - yay!  Looks like we may actually be able to cook Thanksgiving dinner in the new kitchen.

    I wanted to see what has worked best for everyone else for cabinet and drawer babyproofing.  I know some people just move breakable/dangerous stuff to upper cabinets, but DD is really adventurous and so we'd like to have her unable to open them.

    This type is what we used in the old kitchen for cabinets:

    https://www.albeebaby.com/kidco-cabinet-drawer-lock.html?utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_source=googlebase&cvsfa=4248&cvsfe=2&cvsfhu=6b6964636f2d636162696e65742d6472617765722d6c6f636b&gclid=CPyH4b7-87oCFTJp7AodaGsA_g

    Are there any options that you like better?

    congrats on the new kitchen!  We plan on using the kind that you linked when we get new cabinets.  Do they work well?  Right now we are using hair ties to keep side by side cabinet doors together (we have knobs).  Real classy.  :)

     

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  • vvvvvfeevvvvvfee member
    we have these magnetic cabinet locks and like them a lot. you can disengage them, too, which is nice.
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  • sdlaurasdlaura member
    Tapthathank said:
    L12541 said:

    Our kitchen renovation is almost finished - yay!  Looks like we may actually be able to cook Thanksgiving dinner in the new kitchen.

    I wanted to see what has worked best for everyone else for cabinet and drawer babyproofing.  I know some people just move breakable/dangerous stuff to upper cabinets, but DD is really adventurous and so we'd like to have her unable to open them.

    This type is what we used in the old kitchen for cabinets:

    https://www.albeebaby.com/kidco-cabinet-drawer-lock.html?utm_medium=shoppingengine&utm_source=googlebase&cvsfa=4248&cvsfe=2&cvsfhu=6b6964636f2d636162696e65742d6472617765722d6c6f636b&gclid=CPyH4b7-87oCFTJp7AodaGsA_g

    Are there any options that you like better?

    congrats on the new kitchen!  We plan on using the kind that you linked when we get new cabinets.  Do they work well?  Right now we are using hair ties to keep side by side cabinet doors together (we have knobs).  Real classy.  :)
    Thanks!  Yes, they do work well.  DD still tries to open them but can't.  We just wanted to evaluate whether there were any better options.
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    vvvvvfee said:
    we have these magnetic cabinet locks and like them a lot. you can disengage them, too, which is nice.

    Thanks, do you have them on the inside or outside of the cabinet doors?
    BFP #1 9/2010 (lost our baby at 21 weeks) BFP #2 8/2011 (ectopic pregnancy) BFP #3 10/2011 (chemical pregnancy) BFP #4 12/2011 (Abigail born 8/15/12) BFP #5 5/2013 (Griffin born 1/23/14 with heart defects, now repaired!)

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  • vvvvvfeevvvvvfee member
    L12541 said:

    Thanks, do you have them on the inside or outside of the cabinet doors?
    they go on the inside, just like regular cabinet locks. you unlock them from the outside using a magnetic "key." you swipe the key back and forth on the front of the cabinet door and you can hear the lock disengage.
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  • austenfan919austenfan919 member
    LindsayDesigner said:
    We have a few locks like that on our drawers. Honestly, they didn't work very well. Most of them are broken now. We keep the dangerous stuff in the higher cabinets and let her go crazy with the towel drawer. image We have a few of these on our side by side cabinets.


    We have two of these, too. The rest of the cabinets DS can reach have baby safe things in them.

    We redid our kitchen a few months before DS was born, and DH didn't want to screw anything in to our new cabinets.

     

     

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