After laying down a considerable amount of matting so that Magnus can walk around more freely, we eventually had some leftover matting from areas that we had cut off to fit some corners.
We’ve been using Safety 1st corner guards and those run out pretty quickly so we figured it might be possible to make some using this material. It is meant to act as a cushion after all.
Fashioning the basic shape is pretty simple but there are several ways to approach it as you can see below:
One can cut off the shapes individually and glue them together (left), if you’re feeling fancy, you can miter off the edges for a cleaner look (center), using a Y pattern you can create a double fold which you only need to bind in one place (right).
However, we didn’t want it to be super complicated and take too long to make… so after cutting up some pieces of paper and trying it out on the table that needs the guard we came up with this solution:
It’s basically the shape of the letter L which is made to fold on itself using half cuts and would meet on one edge. With this shape, you can easily stick it on to a corner using double sided tape on all the sides, just like how one would also do it with the commercially available models. You can screw them down too if you want to make it more permanent.
This design is also economical in that two corner guards can be cut from a rectangular piece. You can see that we just made enough for the table corners and a surviving pattern which would change depending on the table corner and thickness.
If you have some similar material lying around and a baby/toddler who just started to learn to walk, you might want to consider making some corner guards from them as well.
