In my ebook Sauna Build Start to Finnish, I detail the pros and cons of different options for UNDER your sauna building. Building a sauna in the basement or inside an existing structure? None of this applies. Building a sauna as a free … [Read More...]
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You can “go big” with your urban backyard sauna sanctuary
Its a garage, it's an office, it's a sauna, it's a lounge. It is incremental real estate. It is 16 steps out the back door, and it offers an "up north backyard retreat." No getting into the car. It's right there when you want it. It is … [Read More...]
Three cheers for transom windows
When designing and building our own saunas, it's important to be thinking about windows. In the "ole country" (Finland), with the exception of the candle window, few sauna hot rooms were built with windows. Who knows why. Maybe it was cultural … [Read More...]
Could 75% birch, 25% oak be about the best firewood mix for your wood stove?
Someone suggest differently, but we are having tremendous success with this mix. Get the fire rocking with well aged birch. Toss in a "yule log" of red oak. Fire hungry for more wood? Pull the coals forward and alternate between birch and … [Read More...]
Why Lake Superior is the #1 sauna lake in the Continental US
It's a bold statement because almost ANY lake is a #1 sauna lake. There is nothing like stepping out after a sauna round, when "the idea of a cold lake plunge is about the best idea you've ever heard." But Lake Superior offers the sauna bather an … [Read More...]
5 tips on how to not forget anything after your next sauna party
Anyone who has their own backyard or cabin sauna knows that guests are prone to leave a myriad of things behind. Sauna owners' lost and found bins are often overflowing. A recent look through the 612 Sauna Society lost and found bin revealed such … [Read More...]
Sauna health & wellness extends beyond the doing. Sometimes just the remembering can be a sauna benefit.
Every time I allow myself to start thinking about 218, I'm filled with calm and joy 218 is the Northern Minnesota area code. 218 is home to the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, the Iron Range, small towns with no traffic lights, boundless Nature with … [Read More...]
Build a Sauna
The best base for our sauna building: a pour, some piers, or just a bunch of gravel?
In my ebook Sauna Build Start to Finnish, I detail the pros and cons of different options for UNDER your sauna building. Building a sauna in the basement or inside an existing structure? None of this applies. Building a sauna as a free … [Read More...]
Three cheers for transom windows
When designing and building our own saunas, it's important to be thinking about windows. In the "ole country" (Finland), with the exception of the candle window, few sauna hot rooms were built with windows. Who knows why. Maybe it was cultural … [Read More...]
A simple formula: A good contractor + Sauna Build Start to Finnish ebook = an authentic sauna.
As AUTHENTIC sauna is becoming more popular, many homeowners are excited with the opportunity to have their own sauna, yet frustrated because contractors are too busy building additions, decks, and garages to undertake a sauna build for a … [Read More...]