After searching for "easy to open" gates my wife picked this one. What a mistake. It is NOT easy to open and the top of it slides forward when open. It would be less frustrating to build a small wall that adults can step over than put this thing up! At least 1 hr to get it "jerry-rigged" to work. Oh, by the way, if you have base and shoe moulding on your walls, forget it!! You must lift the tensioned areas at least over the shoe moulding, but then why have the gate if your doing that!!