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June 24, 2025

The Estate Makati – A New Level of Condominium in Makati

Words by: Amy R. Remo
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Any condominium can become a home by living in it long enough to grow a sense of attachment to it. You add your personal effects, your choices of furniture, your collections of items that cater to the sports or hobbies you enjoy, and little by little, this uniform unit shape starts to feel more like you. A person visiting might come over and say, “Wow, this really feels like you!” Slowly but surely, you transform a typical condominium unit into something that truly becomes a reflection of who you are as a person.

Despite all of that, The Estate Makati allows you to take all of that to a whole new level.

Here’s how:

The Customizability

We can’t have a conversation about creating a home without starting with the most obvious and absolutely necessary requirement – customization! After all, what is a home if it isn’t designed to suit your personal tastes to the letter? Sure, most condominiums do what pretty much any other condominium allows you to do: put your furniture exactly where you want it, arrange the rooms according to purpose of use, allow your interior designer to go to town with the existing space, and so on.

However, The Estate Makati takes this a step further.

The double slab system that permeates the entire building’s design involves a hollow divide in between floors that stretches the entire area of the unit. On paper, it’s supposed to be where you put all the wires and pipes so they can reach any specific spot in your unit. That’s useful, but the more important subtext is that having the wires and pipes able to go anywhere means you have the freedom to lay out the space to have as many rooms and bathrooms in whatever size and configuration you want!

Think about it!

A sizable kitchen space that is open to customization

 

A jumbo-sized kitchen that doubles as a dining area in the same way some famous chefs lay out their own kitchens! Three massive master bedrooms or maybe five or six smaller ones to give each family member an unprecedented degree of privacy! Maybe you’ll make a bedroom smaller to create an office or workspace larger! The possibilities are endless and will adjust to your desire to have anywhere from the most basic layout to the most eccentric.

In short, you can enjoy the best perks of designing your own bungalow-style house with all the perks of a fully-serviced, exclusive condominium.

 

The Cruciform Design

Aside from the things in your home and things you do at home, a home can also be a popular talking point when sharing stories with friends and family. You designed your personal space after all; isn’t it possible that they’d remark on it when asking about your new home at The Estate Makati or when they visit it for the first time? Of course they would. They might say something like, “This building has such a unique shape, doesn’t it? I wonder why.” Then you’d be able to respond with a line like, “You know what, that’s a really good question!” and go on to elaborate.

Here are the details you’d need to flesh out that story. The reason why the building was designed to be cross-shaped was to essentially create four “three-sided corner” units per floor (and not just two-sided corner units as would be the case in a regular, square-shaped or rectangular building). The shape also enables the building to have “columnless” units. That way, residents could look out upon Makati from three different angles throughout their home, without any pillars blocking line of sight, allowing for the kind of views only rooftop access could hope to surpass.

And to think, those views would be all yours to enjoy in the privacy and comfort of your home.

A bird's eye view of The Estate Makati

 

The Makati Lifestyle

When you look for a home (or in this case, a condominium in Makati), you don’t just consider the house or the building itself, right? You also think about the neighborhood. It’s a good thing then that these are Makati neighborhoods we’re talking about.

To say that there’s a lot to do in Makati is an understatement. Pretty much everything you could want to do for work or leisure in the context of city life is available in Makati. There are the mentally- and creatively-stimulating spots of the Ayala Museum and other pop-up art displays. Gastronomically-enticing dining destinations both familiar and known only to a few are there to discover. Physically-challenging sports and exercise hubs abound for those looking to push themselves to new limits or simply stay in shape.

In Makati, it’s less a matter of “Is there anything new to do?” and more of “What new thing will I do next?”

There's always something new to appeal to every interest in Makati.

 

A Shopper’s Paradise

There is so much shopping that can be done in Makati that it deserves a section just for itself. In the central business district alone, there are at least four big names in terms of large-scale malling, each with their own niche—Greenbelt, SM Makati, Landmark, and Glorietta.

Greenbelt gives you more of the exclusive, high-end designer brands while Landmark gives you more variety and affordability, with SM Makati and Glorietta providing a healthy balance of both. Beyond that, there are weekly food markets and up-and-coming art galleries that let you be the first to make hot, new discoveries before they become trends.

If shopping is your path to pleasure, then living in The Estate Makati makes the entire area your personal playground.

Creating Your Comfort Zone

The natural progression of comfort usually involves slowly settling into a routine. You do the same things on a weekly or bi-weekly cycle, changing it up every now and then in a minor way, but generally keeping to the rhythm of your habits. This is how you know you’re starting to feel at home.

While this sounds like a boring prospect, like the slow decline of one’s excitement, the mix of luxury, hotel-esque amenities inside The Estate Makati like its Wine Lounge and Sky Garden, and all the kinds of enlivening activities in the Makati area do a good job of delaying that.

Wine never fails to pair perfectly with great conversations.

 

It seems inevitable that at some point, you may run out of new things to do and find yourself doing the same things over and over again. Still, given the sheer abundance of various things to do in and around Makati, with enough time, new additions are sure to come around, like new dishes to your favorite foodie destinations, or the latest fashion drops, or marathons or music events to attend.

In other words, the same things don’t get stale when you never get them the same way again. That’s why living in Makati can be so exciting. It lets you strike a neat balance between doing what you know you love and spicing those activities up so they never get boring. Which does sound like a pretty good routine to get used to.

Ultimately, your home is what you make it, both in what it provides you with physically and how it enables your lifestyle. The best thing about living in The Estate Makati is that it gives you all the options to craft that home and lifestyle to your liking without getting pigeon-holed by a lack of choice.

And where you choose to go with all those options? Ah, now that is the fun part. On that note, it’s time to create the home of your dreams, and on a level you’ve never seen before.

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