Customer Reviews

Malawi - Growth Chart

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I must say, I was pleasantly surprised when I received the growth chart. It was much nicer than I was expecting! I was looking online, and found some that cost as much as $136 (can you believe that...for a growth chart!?!?!?!), and decided I would order this one since it matched the lamp we bought for our daughter's nursery. I love this growth chart, and am very happy. Love the little picture frames!

I have the bedding set but I didn't register for this growth chart because I was planning on painting a mural in the room and was going to include one in the mural. However, I received it as a shower gift and decided to keep it. I like that it has places for photos at various ages. I can also take it with me if I move. It hangs easily with two picture frame hooks but it doesn't seem very stable. Also the middle part with the hinge doesn't stay flat against the wall. I wish it started out a little shorter that 23 inches so that I could put my son's length at birth, 21 inches, however there is room to write it in as a note at the bottom. Overall I would recommend it because it is very cute and will be functional once my son grows a few inches. It will also make a great keepsake for when he is older.

This is a very cute item. I placed our son's picture and he'll walk over and point at it from time to time. It's adorable. My husband used special nails or hangers for these, so that it would stay secure.

I was a little disappointed in this item. I wanted a wooden 5 foot height chart. I thought this item fit my needs. But be advised that the chart starts at 2 feet and goes to 5 ft. On the wall of my duaghters room, its looks small and narrow. The fact that it folds up just makes it easier to ship, but it really only 3 ft long and about 6 inches wide.

I highly recommend this chart for a boy or girl's room. It's better than I expected. Very cute and good quality for a very reasonable price!

Yes, it's very cute yadda yadda yadda.

My big complaint about this growth chart is that it's surprisingly difficult to hang on the wall so that it's level
and at exactly the right height.

It doesn't come with any instructions, but still at first you would think it should be as easy as hanging up a picture, right? Wrong! First of all, there are two hangers on the back, so you have to put up two nails/screws exactly 2.5" apart and at exactly the same height or else it will be tilted. Also there's no simple way to get it at exactly the right height the first time ... you have to make a guess, drill two holes in the wall, put two anchors (not included) into the holes, screw in two mounting screws (not included), hanging it on the screws, and then measure from the floor to see how far off it is. Then you start all over with a second set of holes and PRAY that it comes out perfectly level. Oh, you'll need a bubble level for this as well.

If you're a professional carpenter, you may be able to get it exactly right on the first try by subtracting the height at the bottom of the hanger from the height of the top of the chart, then adjusting the height of your anchor so that the top of the screw diameter matches the required height for the bottom of the hanger, but as a non-professional I did all this and still came up a half inch off. On the second attempt, the growth chart was visibly tilted so I ended up unscrewing one of the hangers on the back of the growth chart and lowering it by 1/16th of an inch (which required drilling two tiny new holes and moving two tiny screws). Finally it's up, it's level and it's within 1/4" of the correct height, but it sure wasn't easy!

What the manufacturer SHOULD have done was provide some kind of adjustment for the hangers on the back so that the height and level can be adjusted once you mount it!