Our latest lookbook features houses that prioritise wellbeing with their own saunas, including ones with calming timber-lined interiors and sliding glass doors overlooking gardens.
The roundup includes residences in Japan, Canada, Finland, and the UK that have dedicated sauna rooms, offering a relaxing retreat without having to leave the comfort of your own home.
This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring minimalist living rooms, wood-filled kitchens and dining rooms situated under voids and lightwells.
Photo by Newcolour Inc
Nestled under a garden on Ishigaki Island, Earth is a concrete holiday home designed by Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto for hotelier Not A Hotel.
On the home’s lower level, a timber-lined sauna features a back wall that curves up towards a skylight placed under a shallow pool, creating dappled patterns of light.
Photo by Richard Chivers
The Pines, UK, by Ström Architects
British studio Ström Architects used fair-faced concrete and lime-washed brick for its extension to a period property in Surrey, which contains a combined kitchen and dining room, home office, gym and sauna.
Lined with tiles and timber slats, the sauna overlooks the home’s outdoor swimming pool and garden through a full-height window.
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Photo by Tomas Slavik
Upcycled Sauna, Czech Republic, by Ika Architekti
Second-hand and scavenged materials form this self-built sauna in Brno, which was perched on railway sleepers in the garden of Ika Architekti co-founder Tomás Dvořák.
The sauna was built from wooden pallets filled with sheep wool insulation, with spruce planks cladding the interior and second-hand corrugated fibreglass panels covering the exterior.
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Photo by François Coquerel
Haussmann apartment, France, by Hauvette & Madani
Local design studio Hauvette & Madani tucked an in-house sauna behind a bespoke daybed as part of its renovation of a Haussmann-era apartment in Paris.
Finished with dark wooden slats, the calming sauna sits among delicate white mouldings and eclectic artwork in the apartment.
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Photo by David Dworkind
Hinterhouse, Canada, by Ménard Dworkind
Architecture studio Ménard Dworkind created a single-storey cedar-clad holiday home in Quebec and a matching sauna, both with views across the surrounding forested hillside.
Located at the end of a trail that steps away from the home, the sauna is fronted with a large window and a sliding cedar shutter.
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Photo by Malte Schütt
Kassette House, Germany, by Malte Schütt
Kassette House is a modular wooden sauna with hemp insulation, a gridded facade and a planted roof designed to connect it with its garden setting.
Created by designer Malte Schütt, the freestanding sauna was installed at the home of a private customer in Germany and is warmed by an electric sauna heater.
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Photo by Toshihisa Ishii
Amami House, Japan, by Sakai Architects
Designed by Japanese studio Sakai Architects, a large corrugated metal roof tops this off-grid home in Japan and shelters patio space wrapping its perimeter.
The home features a small sauna that uses fuel made from construction offcuts, and opens onto the outdoor space through sliding glass doors.
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Photo by Marc Goodwin
Three Square House, Finland, by Studio Puisto
Three interconnected square volumes cloaked in zinc and black-oiled wood make up this lakeside home in Finland, which was designed by Helsinki-based Studio Puisto.
The smallest volume contains a timber-lined sauna, where clerestory windows let natural light in while maintaining a sense of privacy.
Find out more about Three Square House ›
This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen’s archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring minimalist living rooms, wood-filled kitchens and dining rooms situated under voids and lightwells.
