So, I wake up one recent morning with the following email: “I have a strange request. I realize you also live in South Minneapolis. Can you come over and sign your ebook for my husband?” I thought this was a
Guest post series continues. Please welcome John from Minneapolis by weekdays and Northwestern Wisconsin, near Hayward, by weekends. Welcome John: What compelled you to build your own sauna? I have been in love the authentic sauna experience since spending time
It rained all day Thursday, then turned bitter cold overnight. We awoke Friday morning to a hard covering of ice everywhere. Driveway, sidewalks, treacherous conditions, but some battled it by going to work or shopping. Never left the house, all
Guest post series continues. We welcome Mike, from Northwest Minnesota, who has created his own authentic sauna backyard retreat. For those of us busy with full time jobs and demands like a spouse who also works full time and young
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
Guest post series continues. We welcome Andrew and Laurie who purchased a boat access lot on Tomiko Lake in Northern Ontario. Rugged, beautiful wilderness offers an ideal backdrop for a spacious wood burning sauna. All materials require boat transport. Extra
For many of us, sauna has been a family experience. In my case, our 18 year old son has been taking saunas his whole life. We (still) have a plastic dish pan that he would sit in as a baby.
Guest post series continues. We first heard from Ben here, who shared the now famous “Ben Square sleeper method” concept for sloping a sauna hot room floor. Well, good news: Ben has completed his sauna, and we are excited to
This is the kind of thing we get when we sauna in temperature extremes: “It takes a couple extra sticks of firewood, that’s for sure.” “I notice my door sticks, condensation builds.” “I love the feeling of my hair freezing.”
Sauna Times Guest Post Series continues. Welcome to the Keen Sauna in Dryden Ontario Canada. The frozen north. Enter Peter: Peace and quiet? Calm relaxation in the Sauna? Hardly. We six moved this summer into a larger house, which had
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