Making a home involves more than just building a physical house – there’s more to it than just laying down a foundation, setting walls down and putting a roof on top of your head. It involves giving your loved ones access to modern day creature comforts while, at the same time, making them feel safe and secure within the confines of your house.

Overall, your home needs to be one that helps your family members learn and grow to become productive members of society. In order to do that, it’s important for it to have a nourishing nature that positively affects your loved ones. So what exactly does your home need to be like for it to be able to sustainably nourish your family in a good way?

Enter Ajoya Pampanga, one of AboitizLand’s residential developments located in Central Luzon, specifically Mexico, Pampanga. This 17-hectare master planned community is built to cater to the Filipino family’s needs of a healthy lifestyle with generous open spaces, functional amenities and spacious homes.

With these features and benefits, it’s no surprise that Ajoya Pampanga can help facilitate the kind of nourishing atmosphere your family needs. Here are a few tips you need to know when building a nourishing home.

Establish Boundaries

First and foremost, it’s important to establish boundaries both literally and figuratively. Privacy is an important part of family life both as a whole and for its individual members. If not taught to your children at an early age, it might cause problems for them from a social perspective in the future. As a simple example, allowing your children to have rooms of their own helps them appreciate the joy of solace. It also helps them realize, to some extent, what it’s like to be independent.

Having boundaries up doesn’t only imply privacy, it can also mean having rules or a set of policies that you and your family can agree upon. For example, you can agree with your family to not eat in the living room nor in your respective bedrooms. Another example, you can agree to have family game night on a certain day and impose sanctions whenever you or anyone else somehow misses it.

Perhaps, the most important kind of boundary revolves around work-life balance. Of course, this can be easily settled by having no discussion of work at home. However, with the pandemic affecting the world in more ways than one, companies have seen the importance and benefits of the remote setup. This has prompted many professionals to turn their homes into work from home offices, thereby blurring the lines between work and life. The solution? Have a separate room for work and establish an agreement to come in and out of the room when it’s time for work, break times and end of day. After which, leave the room alone and focus on your family.

At the end of the day, this kind of boundary setting does more good than bad to families and helps them live better, more fulfilled lives.With Ajoya Pampanga’s wide set of spacious units that can contain up to 5 bedrooms, you are able to establish and enforce these boundaries without having to worry about whether you’re stretching the home too thin.

Have A Plethora Of Shared Experiences

If there’s anything that helps people have a harmonious relationship with each other, it’s having a deeper understanding of who that person is. This kind of deeper understanding, of course, is brought about by many things, one of which is shared experiences. While a family is figuratively contractually obligated to know each other, being able to go a level deeper can spell the difference between having a meaningful relationship with your children and the opposite.

To facilitate this shared experience, it’s important to spend meaningful quality time with each other. This is why it’s recommended to have a regular family activity apart from breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Family game nights are great because a little bit of healthy competition helps you get to know individual members of your family better. You know how when you travel the world, you know a little bit about yourself? The same can be said for when you travel the world as a family. You can also go out on out-of-town trips on an annual basis to just learn new things about the world and each other.

Alternatively, you can take advantage of Ajoya Pampanga’s features and benefits. As an example, it has amenities you can take advantage of without having to leave the comfort of the 17-hectare community. If you and the kids want to quench the summer heat, rather than taking a car to drive to the nearest swimming pool, you can use Ajoya Pampanga’s. If you want to keep things simple and just walk around the neighborhood greeting your vecinos (another term for neighbors), the community’s optimally placed greenbelts in sprawling lush green grounds that provide safe spaces for yourself and your children allows you to do that without worrying about oncoming vehicles. You can also take advantage of the pocket parks located within the development to either play a nice game of badminton or have a simple picnic.

Finally, the Ajoya Pampanga Town Plaza is the commercial and dining center of Ajoya Pampanga. This is where you can do a little of regular or window shopping, have dinner or just generally hang out with friends and family – more proof that Ajoya Pampanga caters to helping you grow your family.

Create A Nourishing Atmosphere

When it comes to raising a family, having an aesthetically pleasing home can be a big help. When a house is clean and well-maintained, there is little to no room for stress. If a house has walls that provide different shades that work with each other to create a pleasing experience for the inhabitants’ eyes, it’s a home that can help them appreciate life’s many different hues and shades.

In order to do this, set a schedule for maintaining your home. This of course goes beyond just cleaning the floors or wiping surfaces, but it can certainly start with that. Having your children participate in this kind of activity is another good example of having shared experiences.

The next thing you can do is to have ample lighting in your home. Having a home well lit is symbolic of how a family can be truthful to itself and to others. Of course, you don’t have to install lights in every corner of your house, you can choose to have natural light flow across your home through strategically placed mirrors and ventanillas.

Lastly, practice a minimalist lifestyle from an interior design point of view. If you feel a certain item in your home doesn’t contribute to your happiness or just straight up isn’t useful, get rid of it. Allow the use of furniture that can double as containers and the like. At the end of the day, having more space to move around in both gives you a pleasant sight to see but also gives you a lot of space to move in.

If you’re interested in learning more about Ajoya Pampanga, visit this web page: https://aboitizland.com/ajoya-pampanga/. You can also take a virtual tour of this residential development by visiting this web page: http://bit.ly/AjoyaPampangaVirtualTour. Feel free to email aboitizland@aboitiz.com if you have any questions.