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We have a gate at the top of our stairs but not at the bottom. I actually refused to put gates up for the longest time, but then I started to fear that DS might fall down if he got up at nighttime and started wondering around. Our hallway at the top of the stairs is very open, so we used the gate that has all the interlocking pieces to where you can fashion it into whatever shape you need. Ours is about 7 feet wide and it's shaped so that there's a two foot landing at the top of the stairs before you hit the gate.

We have a gate at the top - at the bottom we have a gate across the hallway leading out of the kitchen/family room so that he can't get to either set of stairs.

We just bought gates and will be gating both the top and bottom. Our friends with kids have gated both as well.

We do on the main stairs, though the bottom one is really for the dog. I close the bottom every day so she can't go up to the bedrooms and scratch the carpet. We probably could've gotten away with just the top gate because our stairs are in an area of the house that DS didn't really go to, and he wasn't trying to climb up without us. But when we moved in the dog had issues running up the stairs and into the gate and falling. So we put the bottom gate up too. We have retractable gates on both.

We also have stairs going down to our basement, but they have a door at the top (with a childproof doorknob cover) and we don't bother with a gate at the bottom.

Only at the top. The stairs go to the basement, and she's never down there unsupervised. If our stairs were used more often (like going from living room to bedrooms) we'd have probably gated top and bottom.

Right now we just have a gate at the top of the staircase since DS was 1.5 when we moved in and listened in regards to the stairs. We have a gate for the bottom we plan on installing once DD starts crawling though.

Top and bottom. Hardwood stairs and tile floor at the bottom. We don't want a fall!