 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.