Evenflo Versatile Play Space Adjustable Play Area, 8-Panel (Cool Gray)

I purchased this as a multipurpose item and am using it mostly to keep my young puppy contained. It works great as a playpen but is horrible as a solution to block off my extremely wide doorways. Both my niece and the puppy quickly learned to get through by pushing the folded gate and if it’s left straight instead of accordion style it’s easily knocked over with a couple pushes. I would echo other reviews that state this is built like a ladder. My puppy has learned how to climb the gate in less than two weeks so I can only use it to keep him contained when I’m nearby and he’s content being contained. Despite these frustrations, I realize it’s less a product flaw and more just a result of curiosity. It’s still worth the money to me as it works for kiddos and pups and has made it easier to keep either the puppy or my niece contained (although separately of course).

I keep my pet out of my kitcken while I am cooking or any rooms that off limits. Good for small pet, easy to lock and open.

The last one of these I bought, was to keep puppies away from the Christmas tree. So I figured it would work to keep them from getting to close to the brooder with the baby chicks in it. It works perfectly. The dogs can still see the chicks but can’t get right up to them and scare them. A few weeks later when the chicks went outside in the front yard in a chicken tractor during the day, I took it out and put it around that too. Again, works perfectly. It’s easy to adjust the size by removing a panel if needed. And it’s sturdy enough to not worry about it being tipped over yet light enough to easily carry it to wherever you need to put it. And it folds flat without any difficulty. The fact that it folds flat makes storage much easier. My dogs are rat terriers so they are on the smaller side. 1 weighs about 20 lbs and is not terribly tall, maybe 10”. Her brother is quite a bit bigger, about 30 lbs and early 3-5” taller. They have stood on their hind legs, front feet on the top of this play yard and with the back side secured against the wall or in our case, the wood stove there was no worries it would move. And though they could look over the top of it and into the brooder, they couldn’t jump over. If you had a dog that was a jumper by nature it might not be tall enough to keep them from going over the top but in our case, one is a bit chubby and not much into jumping. His sister is more so but she was too short to get over it. So if you want to keep something inside the yard safe from whatever, I recommend this. This is the second one we’ve had in the last 12 yrs ( would still have the first one of it hadn’t been loaned out and their dogs hadn’t chewed it all up. All in all, sturdy, easy to use and move and good quality for many many years of use for a large variety of things.

I took this to softball practice and softball games it contained my child in a couple of other parents kids also. It is lightweight but sturdy enough to keep them in it does fall over if they push on it like two toddlers it will fall over but it also contains what you need to contain.

It is a littler bigger than I anticipated but to be fair I based that assumption off the picture and didn’t look at the size. It is everything we needed/expected. Gives the little one room to play but contains her. Kind of awkward to fold for storage but you get used to it.

Our son screamed and it’s so lightweight he would just move it around. It’s sitting in a corner folded up.

So easy to set up and take down. The baby grandchildren we have are very comfortable playing in the pen

My child loves this and so do I. I was hesitant to buy this because of the reviews but I am glad I did. This play space gives my child room to be more independent and it gives me peace of mind knowing she is in a safe space. The playgate is plastic and my child has fallen when she tired to stand but I have never had any issues with the plastic being too sharp or something to cut her she has been just fine. The gate can be easily opened and easily shaped to whatever space you need.

We have a small house so having something that we can assemble and disassemble quickly and store compactly is important for us, and this playpen fits the bill. We originally bought six panels and love how we were able to buy an extra two panels to adjust the size. That was a huge plus. I appreciate how the panels easily move around the hinges. We borrowed a similar Toddleroo playpen once, and it was SO hard to unfold the panels. We got the gray and like how it doesnt look garish in the living room. One con is that its definitely not a one-handed operation to open a panel like a fence. Its honestly just faster to step over it, though I worry about my parents falling while doing this. Its also not the most sturdy, but thats the tradeoff you make to have something light weight. You absolutely have to have it in an octagonal shape instead of a rectangle for it to not collapse when your baby pulls up on it to stand. Luckily we havent had any accidents yet. If Evenflo could put a gate on one of the panels, this would awesome.

Excellent play space for our giant baby! Hes 10 months old and 26 pounds, he stands as tall as this gate, is cruising and banging around on the gate, and still cant get out. I see people have complained about it being lightweight and moveable, and yes if it was on carpet he would push it around but there are rubber pads on the feet and they hold fast on our hardwood floors. We even put down a rug under it so he has padding and he cant move it off the rug. To address it being built like a ladder, yes the detail is ladder-like, but the holes are only big enough for his big toe. He could never use the side to climb, the spaces just arent big enough. Youll want to watch putting any toys in here they can climb on though lol. The indivual gates are, in fact, one hand release and just as easy to snap back together. I only took off one star for ease of assemby because the thing is so big that when youre first trying to set it up you have to unfold it completely and its so long its pretty unweildy, but after you get it into the shape you want it its perfect. Weve used it as a gate as well as an enclosed space, and its obviously sturdier as an enclosure but itll do for a gate if its what you have.