Simple, and done right. One large glass panel fills the front, and the glass door sits back under an extended roof to keep the entry dry. Inside, a change room means no more getting changed in the house and crossing the yard in a towel.
A good sauna is as much about the break between rounds as the heat. Leave your things in the change room, cool off on the covered porch with its cedar bench and slatted privacy screen, then head back into the glass-front hot room.
Everything in its place. You come in through a glass door, with a narrow sidelight beside it, into a change room where your clothes stay dry. The hot room gets the big front window and all the daylight that comes with it.
Privacy right where you want it. Cedar slats screen the covered entry, so you can step out between rounds without feeling on display, and a big glass front keeps the sauna open and bright.
Two walls of full-height glass meet at the corner, set in crisp black frames against the cedar. Inside, two-tier benches let you choose your heat: up top for the hottest air, the lower bench when you want it gentler.
The whole routine under one long roof. The change room and sauna take one end, with corner glass bringing in daylight from two sides, and the shower takes the other. In between is a covered space with room for a hot tub and a cold plunge.
Unhurried from the moment you arrive. Walk in under a covered entrance, change in a room lit by its own narrow sidelight, and step into a sauna brightened by a large glass panel.
Natural cedar framing and full-height glass that meets at one corner, so the sauna opens up on two sides and feels bigger than it is. You come and go under a covered entrance.
Black cladding outside, warm cedar inside. Past the covered front entry, a vestibule sits between the outside door and the hot room, so in winter the cold air stays out every time someone comes or goes.
Talvi is Finnish for winter, and this is the sauna to watch it from. The whole front is a single 7′ × 7′ glass panel and the glass door is on the side, so the bench across the back looks straight out through all of it. It’s the classic shed sauna, in horizontal cedar.