Cumbersome.  I have already bruised my arm from the pinch from trying to get this thing to expand.  Difficult to manuever so it's easier to walk from my bedroom, through the foyer, outside to the locked garage, up the steps to the rear entry, unlock another doo, then I can get to my kitchen without having to mess with this gate.  Would be nice if it had a swinging door.  Some models had that but they simply weren't wide enough or the slats too far apart for kittens.  Oh, well.