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I put up a baby yard across the living room and she is mainly contained in there. the tv is outside of it, and the shelving unit inside of it is attached to the wall. outlets have the safety things in them.

when she's "free", I watch her like a hawk - the plugs all have the things in them, I have the cushion things on the corners of the dining room table, but aside from that we really don't have any furniture to secure. when she's older and goes upstairs, I'll absolutely be securing bookcases and dressers to the walls.

as for the kitchen, we have such a sucky kitchen..two cabinets and 3 drawers, really. I used 2 carabiners to lock the cabinets shut and she's never in there alone so I haven't secured the drawers yet, but I plan to!

We did no baby proofing with J1, we put up gates for J2

edit: we put latches on the cabinet under the sink where all the chemicals are

@Weagle: Kind of the same thing. He was constantly trying to come in the ktichen and get into drawers and cabinets, not to mention eat the cat's food. So we just gated the kitchen so he can't get in there. We've done outlet covers and a few soft corners on furniture. As he becomes more mobile and starts getting into more stuff, we'll reevalute. But for now, that seems to be all we need.

Locks on cabinet doors.
Plugs in outlets.
Gate at top of stairs.
Secured a very tall bookshelf to the wall.

Next up: Securing TV's to the wall.

I didn't want to believe in baby proofing, but our house is too open and I don't feel like cleaning up kitchen cabinet messes while she's learning how to listen.
So, we did:
Kitchen cabinet locks (tempting to do cabinet locks in our bathrooms too, but we're just working on getting her to listen at this point)
Outlet covers (too dangerous to risk it - I remember watching my cousin get shot a couple feet away from an outlet after sticking a paperclip in it!!)
Baby gate at the top of the stairs (I don't want to have to watch her like a hawk upstairs - especially while I'm getting ready in the mornings. Too easy to fall downstairs!!!)

I tied off the cupboard below the sink that has chemicals, but that was pretty much it. We have an open layout apartment, and we'd need like....10-12 baby gates to close anything off.

We are babyproofing as we go.

So far we have done outlet covers because this is a kid who wants to be electrocuted. We also just put up a baby gate in one room because he occasionally wanders to the stairs. Otherwise, we just make sure to keep cords out of reach.

So far he's pretty uninterested in adult objects. We may need to do more when he's a bit more mobile. For now though, we haven't done much!

@Cherrybee: Hehe. You sound like me a couple weeks ago.

We are taking it one 'mobile stage' at a time. Like, right now we have:

-outlets covered
-baby gate to keep her coralled
-removed things we didn't want torn apart from lower shelves
-safety locks on bathroom/under kitchen sink cabinets

And as we watch her go around and mess with stuff, we are learning what else to move/remove. For example, there are these sweet bookshelves in her room that were mine growing up, but she can very easily topple them over... those got removed this morning. Things like that

@Cherrybee: ugh! Yes, we need to do that too.

@Cherrybee: yes pleasssse strap furniture to the walls! A little boy died last place we lived when a dresser fell on him

I think a lot of it had to do with kid temperament. And how much freedom you give them. Mine is busy busy busy and a climber. So we have it set up so if I passed out or was locked in a bathroom, he would be safe and fine until my husband came home. We did do things somewhat incrementally as he showed us what else could be a problem

Stairs, outlets, cords were our first priorities. Then furniture and sharp edges (within reason). Then cabinets and door knobs.

@Cherrybee: yep! He's motoring around like crazy now!

we did a ton because I work at home some and can't always watch her closely. we didn't really need it all as she is laid-back but it was nice to have it and I didn't want to be stressed out getting stuff done as it became a problem.

we have a TON of cabinets, with different configurations, so we did several kinds of locks (including the magnetic ones for single doors). we did corner pads on two tables with sharp corners. we don't have stairs but put up gates to block her from our uncovered radiators - this came in handy because we had to get configurable gates and then made a larger space for each where we could just keep lots of things out of her reach (even whole parts of rooms). what else . . . I put some little clear hooks on the wall (the 3M command kind that will pull off later) to hang the blinds cords out of reach. we did outlet covers of course, including some of the kind where you can leave things plugged in inside the cover. I even have a power strip cover. I felt like I bought every babyproofing thing in existence.

but we left our fireplace open and decided we would teach her not to touch it and that worked fine. we are moving soon and I doubt we will do much until/if we have another mobile baby, except for locking up dangerous cabinets.

We did a fair amount because she's very independent and a climber and I like her to be able to explore freely without worrying. Plus its a rental and some things, like wiring, seem a bit sketchy.

- wall socket covers
- gate in front of kitchen (that way I didn't have to worry about cabinet locks)
- fixed the blind cords
- put a set of playard walls around the fireplace and put most of the dangerous stuff (fire pokers, wobbly bookcase that can't be secured) and things we didn't want her chewing on inside
- cabinet locks on linen closets (not so much for safety, more because she'll throw all our sheets and towels all over the floor) and liquor cabinet
- foam corners on coffee table (these aren't really necessary anymore, but when she was first learning to crawl she would go full tilt at the coffee table, and then howl, at least five or six times an hour. that got old really fast)

We're going as she gets interested in things. So far, it's mainly been cords and there doesn't seem to be an easy way to protect them. One thing I heard in the news that I'm filing away for when she's older is don't keep medication in your purse or diaper bag (even if they are in childproof bottles). I would never have thought of that. Kids love purses.

Outlet covers and cabinet locks on chemicals and that's all. Doors stay shut to bathrooms/bedrooms since nothing's been done. He's supervised anywhere else he goes.