 Maybe it's just the kitchen at first. Maybe it expands to being the kitchen and the family room. But you use, and you can use all sorts of things. There are great products out there, Gates and X-Pens and stuff like that, that you can easily pop up for a while. Don't worry. Yes, your house isn't going to be as pretty, but it's just for a short period of time. But if you make it a smaller area, then do the work of puppy-proofing and taking away, make it so that he can't make mistakes. He doesn't have something to do.