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Pretty nice. About what I expected. I deducted one star for the directions. It took me a few hours to hang this because I wanted it to hang, close, and latch perfectly. DO NOT BLINDLY FOLLOW THE DIRECTIONS AND TEMPLATE. I quickly realized that if I did, there was no way this was going to line up properly. As you can see, I hung this on the woodwork of the door molding. The LAST thing I wanted to do was make extra "dang-it" holes - which would result in my wife putting a few extra holes in me. So I extended the gate to the proper width and clipped the hinges on. I held the gate & hinges up approximately where I thought it should hang. I compared that to the template. The hinge side of the template was spot on. HOWEVER, they draw a dashed plumb-line on the template that's 3/8" to the right of the screw holes. I'm not sure why. I want the hinges in the middle of the door molding. Since the gate centers on the hinges and the hinges center on the screws; if I had penciled a mark in the middle of the trim and lined the plumb-line on the template up to my mark, then the gate would have been 3/8" to the left of the center of the molding. So pencil a mark 3/8" to the right of where you want the gate to hang. Align the dashed line on the template up to your mark. Tape the top or bottom of the template to the wall. Using a level, move the other end of the template to the left/right to make the dashed line plumb - then tape that end. Add a couple of extra pieces of tape to secure the template. Hold the gate and hinges up to the template as a sanity check (just make sure it looks like this will work). I think you can trust the template and pre-drill holes. I used a 3/32" bit. I did not trust the template. I drilled the top hole, took the top hinge from the gate and put the top screw in. I then placed a screw in the bottom hole and tapped it with a hammer. Took the hinge off the wall, compared the mark from the screw-tap to the template. The aligned. So I pre-drilled the bottom hole. Then screwed the hinge to the wall (with the template still taped to the wall). I hung the gate on the top hinge and lined the bottom hinge (that's still on the gate) up to the template. I put a screw in the top hole of the bottom hinge and tapped it with a hammer. Then put the screw in the bottom hole and tapped it. The screw-taps lined up with the template. So I pre-drilled the holes. I hung the hinges and gate to make sure everything worked/looked correct. I took the gate/hinges down, cleaned my pencil marks off the wall and vacuumed the saw dust. I then rehung the gate/hinges, added the tops to the hinges and pre drilled the last holes that will keep the tops on. I tried to make a line 3/8" to the right of center on the opposite wall and use the template for the latches. But the latches would have been WAAAY to high. So first I screwed/unscrewed the hinge spindles and latch pins to the approximate positions that the gate will be centered in the doorway. Then fine tune the hinge spindles so that the gate is level in the closed position. Draw a center line where you want the latch to hang. Then hold the latch onto the latch-pin and hold the latch up to your center-line on the wall. Screw-tap the top hole of the latch. Then pre-drill the top hole. Screw the latch to the wall. Then screw-tap the bottom hole. Take the latch down and pre-drill the bottom hole. Hang the latch and close the gate. Hold the bottom latch up to your drawn center line and the bottom latch-pin. Screw-tap the holes on the bottom latch. Then screw the bottom latch to the wall. In a perfect world, the gate will open and close perfectly. My world isn't perfect. I still had to play with the hinge spindles, latch pins, and center brackets for another 15 - 30 minutes to get the gate to open, close, and latch just right. Note: Latch stops are included that can prevent the gate from opening one way. I didn't use those. I want the gate to open both ways. Also screws are supplied. They were fine for me since I hung the gate on woodwork. If you are going to hang it on Sheetrock, you're going to need your own wall anchors - or better yet; anchor a hardwood board (e.g. poplar) to the hinge side of the gate. Then hang the hinges on the board. You can do the same for the latch side. But wall anchors will probably be ok for those.