Experience for Your Family
Creating the ultimate Home Experience for your family isn’t about filling up time with entertainment but enriching it with joyous activities that foster connection and growth.
These imaginative family activities transform your living space into a workshop of creativity and imagination. They can also be captured as memories, serving as a lasting legacy of shared experiences.
Smart Technology
Smart technology gives homeowners the ability to remotely control appliances, thermostats, lighting, and other devices. Many of these systems also communicate with each other, allowing for more efficient use of energy and enhanced security.
A smart system can learn a homeowner’s schedule and turn devices on and off accordingly. Additionally, some systems are programmed to adjust based on natural daylight availability.
Using voice commands, smart tech can be controlled from anywhere with an internet connection. Some smart devices can even detect when the homeowner is home to avoid wasting electricity. Additionally, smart blinds can automatically lower in response to sunlight for better acoustics and to protect flooring, artwork, and furniture from damaging UV rays.
There are some home warranty plans that will cover smart home systems so be sure to look into which one can protect your home technology. By getting a home warranty quote, you will be one step closer to protecting your investment and family.
Natural Elements
Including natural elements in your home provides an immediate and lasting sense of beauty, tranquility, and balance. This type of decor is also healthy for your family’s mind, body, and spirit.
Using natural elements in your decor, like greens, browns, and beiges, can give your home a relaxing and soothing atmosphere. Including plants in your home is another great way to add natural elements. They can purify the air, help relieve stress, and even boost productivity.
Traditionally, it is thought that only 118 of the 118 known elements can be found naturally – up to and including element 92 (uranium). However, several of these have been discovered by nuclear accelerators or in laboratories. They can also form compounds with other elements (like carbon and oxygen in carbon dioxide or sodium and chlorine in water) or other materials (like gold). The remaining 98 natural elements are found in trace amounts.
Smart Lighting
Unlike traditional lighting systems, smart lights can be controlled automatically based on a variety of triggers such as light sensors and weather forecasting. Whether you want your lights to turn on slowly in the morning to help you wake up
gently or switch on brightly for when you are watching TV, the options are endless.
The ability to set and control lighting “Scenes” is one of the best features of smart home lighting products. These groups allow you to control multiple devices (bulbs, switches, dimmers) at once and create a specific mood for an event or activity like movie night or a party.
Some smart lighting products also enable you to set up “mockupancy” while you are away so your house will appear occupied, deterring potential intruders.
Surround Sound
A home theater surround system will provide you with a much richer listening experience. With the ability to engulf you with sounds that are not only in front of you but also behind and above, it makes for a more immersive movie-watching experience.
Unlike a stereo sound system which only requires speakers in the front, surround systems typically have speakers on the left and right side of your room as well as two in the rear to recreate a performance stage around you. This is often referred to as a 5.1 surround sound system.
Some home audio systems offer a more advanced surround configuration known as 7.1. This includes a center speaker in addition to the left and right front speakers as well as an additional two speakers on the back of the room to simulate sounds approaching from the rear and disappearing into the distance.
Gaming
The gaming experience can be a powerful family activity, providing an opportunity for bonding and learning. By setting age-appropriate limits, managing screen time, creating a comfortable gaming space, and encouraging healthy gaming habits, you
can help transform your kids’ love of video games into a wholesome family pastime that builds lifelong skills.
Some families often spend evenings playing video games together, and they’ve noticed many positive changes as a result. Conversation bleeds from one room to another, there’s plenty of competitive spirit and jesting comments, and the Silvas have learned to share their favorite games with their siblings. Their gaming has become a regular family ritual, which the Deseret News notes can strengthen a family’s bond and encourage communication. This includes sharing their favorite multiplayer games and coordinating in-person game play.