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It is important to childproof your home, and here is how you do it.

The joy of parenthood is quickly overcome by a sense of responsibility. Having a child at home can be very exciting for every parent. A lot of new parents forget to childproof their houses or if they do, they miss a couple of things here and there. Who can blame them? The months leading up to a child’s birth are no child’s play (no pun intended). Children unlike adults don’t know any better and as parents/guardians it is our job to provide them a childproof safe environment. Things we often overlook as adults can be dangerous to a child. Given below is a checklist to ensure your home is safe for children.

kid looking inside a cabinet

1) Keep household chemicals out of reach: We often keep household chemicals like floor cleaner, phenyl, dishwasher liquid etc… in the lower cabinets. They need to be moved to higher cabinets, and out of the child’s reach.

Tip: Alternatively you could lock your cabinets to ensure your child cannot access them.

2) Cushion furniture corners: As adults we have a sense of our surrounding (well some of us still run into the table occasionally but that’s a topic for another day). Children could easily hurt themselves on table corners, bed edges and other such places. It’s a good idea to cushion these to help prevent any accidents by childproof.

A quick search on ebay can get you many corner guards like these.

Cusioned Furniture Corner

3) Install Safety Nets: Apartments and Villaments in Bangalore are on the rise. Parents living in houses that are either in the first floor or higher need to make sure they put some kind of childproof safety nets in their balconies.

4) Keep breakable pieces out of the child’s reach: Items like costly electronics, showpieces etc… should be moved to the back, towards the wall and if they are standing on a piece of furniture that can be easily pushed over, both the breakable piece and the furniture need to be moved.

5) Keep medicines in locked cabinets: There’s a lot of medication given to the children during the early years and some parents themselves use regular medication. All of these should be stored in locked cabinets. If children have access them, accidental overdose could lead to serious problems.

6) Cover Electrical Outlets: This prevents children from accidentally sticking fingers or objects into them.

7) Install Door Stoppers: If the house you live in does not have door stoppers, it is advisable to get them installed. Children can easily get their fingers or toes stuck under moving doors.

While some of these guidelines might seem unnecessary or even outrageous to someone, they by no means are to be taken lightly. Remember, “It’s better to be safe than sorry!”

As parents having a child at home can make us happy and at the same time concerned for their safety. By taking some of the steps mentioned here we can ensure we spend less time being concerned and more time being happy with our children!

Happy parenting from all of us at Habitat Ventures! 🙂

 

Pet Friendly Apartments and Villaments are a Growing Trend in Bangalore.

Pet Friendly Villaments offer a private park to each home
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Pet friendly apartments and villaments there are many of you out there who share an unbreakable bond with their pets. Amongst all the madness that surrounds us in the world today, this bond that’s forged out of loyalty and love has stood the test of time. Every pet owner, past or present, knows exactly how much our pets love us, how our pets make us smile, & how they are ever so happy each and every time we come home even if we were gone for only 2 minutes 😀 For us they aren’t just pets, they are pretty much a part of our family. And to consider moving our house and parting with our “family member” is a dreaded thought.

For a long time now Bangalore hasn’t offered many ‘Pet Friendly Apartments’, and this has been disheartening to pet owners, who’ve long been protesting for the rules to be relaxed. However the apartments have shown no sign of adopting a pet friendly policy anytime soon. This has left the pet owners with a difficult choice of either choosing a new home or parting with their pet; a choice no one should ever be forced to make.

Pet owners can now breathe a sigh of relief as pet friendly apartments and villaments in Bangalore are coming to the rescue. Opposed to regular apartments, villaments offer various ‘pet friendly’ features that make life a lot easier for all you pet owners. Let’s take a look at some of the options:

1.  A Private Garden for each Villament

A villament comes equipped with it’s own private garden. No longer do you have to worry about your pet being cramped for room. With your own private garden you can assure that your pet gets all the playing space he/she needs. A private garden is a complete pet haven!

 2. Availability of a Community Garden or Park

While the private garden by itself provides your pet with enough wiggle room, if you are one of those pet owners who loves taking your dogs on long walks, the community park serves as an added bonus.

In addition to that a community park serves as a good place for your pet to make new friends with the other pets from the neighborhood 🙂

Pet Friendly Villaments at Habitat Crest
Habitat Crest Villaments offer each home it’s very own private park.
3. Access to direct Daylight

Anyone to everyone who’ve had pets, know just how much pets love sunbathing! If you have a dog or a cat you will notice they love to go out, lay down and absorb all the vitamin D they can get (which FYI is important to your pet’s health). Villaments are architecturally designed to ensure each home has optimal access to sunlight. Take Habitat Ventures’ Crest Villament project, for example, the Crest Villaments in Whitefield ensure that all living areas have access to direct sunlight. 70% of the project land is open space ensuring sufficient natural ambient lighting and, the location & design of the staircase & the double height in the living room enhances the light and ventilation. No one wants to live in a “stuffy” home.

Villaments are a great opportunity for pet owners to think of moving into a new home along with their beloved pets. Villaments offer a ton of features and are not as expensive as a villa. Check out this article on why a Villament is better than an apartment: https://habitatventures.com/blog/villament/

Simply put, “if a dog is a man’s best friend, a villament is a dog’s best friend!” 🙂

What Is A Villament and Why It Makes Sense To Opt For One?

Owning a new home is quite presumably, on the wishlist of almost everyone. In fact most of us, work tirelessly through the years in hope of one day owning that dream home, amongst other possessions. And we’re pretty sure we all love to dream big, and why shouldn’t we !?! When investing your hard earned life-savings, you want the best that your money can buy. However, investing in that perfect crib can be quite the challenge. With the scores of property advertisements that are thrown at you almost everyday, it becomes imperative for you to not only understand the various industry terms you read in these ads but also to stay up-to-speed with what’s current in the real estate world. So where exactly are we going with this? We’ll get to that in the next few lines.

We’ve all at some point or the other, seen a villa either on the tv or in person. Large, luxurious, completely independent, and most often studded with equally luxurious amenities – you’d be lying if you said you didn’t aspire to dwell under the confines of such a luxurious abode someday. The sad truth, however remains, that this luxury remains elusive to most of us, largely owing to the soaring real estate prices 🙁 So what do we end up doing? We settle for a regular apartment, that’s within our budget.  If this sounds like the story of your life, or anything close to it, then know that Habitat Ventures had you in mind when we pioneered the concept of a Villament, which has garnered us much news spotlight over the years.  Like the name itself reads, a villament is an amalgamation of a villa and an apartment, which gives you the best of both worlds. How so you ask? We list them below one by one.

Affordability of an apartment: With this new model of community living you get the luxury of living in a villa, at prices that are affordable and within your budget.

Privacy & Exclusivity of a villa: As opposed to the high number of homes in a single apartment complex or tower, a villament ideally consists of around 5 homes in a single building with ideally not more than 2 homes on a single floor. In addition to this, the interiors of a villament are designed much like that of a modern villa – with privacy, exclusivity and even a garden area for each home.

Habitat Crest, where each home with its own private park.
Model Villament with a private garden at Habitat Crest

Amenities of an apartment: Yes! you even get to enjoy the  amenities which residents of an apartment complex do, most commonly a club house and a swimming pool, and with certain premium luxury villaments such as Habitat Crest, even game courts for basketball, tennis and squash.

Habitat Crest's club house boasts of an elegantly designed roof-top swimming pool
Habitat Crest club house with roof-top swimming pool

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The comparison chart below perfectly summarizes the benefits of our Habitat Crest villament (winner of the prestigious Asia Pacific Property Award 2013) showing you exactly why one should be investing in a villament, as they are clearly the future of real estate.

Habitat Crest Villaments - comparison chart vs Villa and Apartment
Villa vs Apartment vs Villament comparison chart

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Also not to mention, owning a villament adds huge points to your prestige, making you part of a very elite club of home owners who have seen the value and been quick to jump on the ship of this new genre of housing in the Indian market. So much so that many renowned and upcoming builders have drawn inspiration from us and have begun offering their customers similar offerings. And to this, we simply raise our collars up and remind ourselves of the quote by Charles Caleb Colton, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” 🙂