Category Archives: Present your Sauna

My brother and his wife heard about this sauna concept a few years ago: a vault-shaped underground smoke sauna made of cylinder blocks. So they called the manufacturer and asked for a demo as they happened to be driving in that part of Finland. The owner could not make the demo at their showroom butContinue reading “The Vault”

Finns like their summer places and villas. They call them summer cottages or summer cabins (kesämökki), or just cabins if the place can ve used during cold winter months. There are about 500,000 such places in the country of 175,000 lakes and 5.6 million people. Some of these cabins are fancier with all amenities whereasContinue reading “Saunas at Finnish Summer Places”

Depending on the source, there are probably between 2-3 million saunas in Finland. The population is about 5.6 million and there are about 2.6 million household-dwelling units. So there are many saunas there. Saunas are quite typical even in condos and apartments. Many of those saunas are rather small and most if not all haveContinue reading “Ever-Ready Sauna in an Apartment”

I bought my backyard sauna in 2019, after ten years of being a regular at Russian Banya of Dallas which was my first banya/sauna experience that left many nostalgic memories to me. Being born and grew up in South Korea where people have their own bath/sauna culture(it deserves a separate post by the way), IContinue reading “Mo’s barrel”

I have always enjoyed going to a sauna and when I lived in Finland, I didn’t really think about all that so much: you just go to sauna very often. Like many Finns, I was also quite opinionated about sauna. We tend to comment on bad sauna builds and often rage when hotels abroad won’tContinue reading “Pöllä 3 Sauna”