On the plus facet, the finishes are very good. It appears to be like and feels sturdy. The faint scent of cedar within the air if you step inside is gorgeous. As my daughter and the neighborhood children can attest, it’s a lovely, cozy little nook wherein to curve up and browse a guide should you’re the little child of a perpetually chilly particular person, and are additionally a perpetually chilly particular person.
For me, it’s far more handy to open the Solar House app, let the sauna heat up for half-hour, and step into the yard than it’s to stroll three blocks to my health club, the place I’ve to justify going into the sauna by figuring out beforehand.
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You possibly can join your telephone both by way of Bluetooth or USB and hearken to music or a podcast with Solar House’s ceiling-mounted audio system, which have an honest depth of sound, even should you do actually hear the plosives if you’re listening to podcasts. You possibly can activate celebration lights with the contact of a button on the management panel, to your celebration of two.
There may be additionally a chromotherapy panel within the ceiling, which turns the sauna a sort of purplish pink. There are some small-scale research that assist the concept chromotherapy reduces nervousness. I turned it on a number of occasions however discovered that sitting underneath a pink gentle panel someway didn’t make me neglect that I would get Freddy Krueger-ed in my very own yard. You can even go for an extra infrared remedy panel on the door.
At this worth, you need the sauna expertise to be seamless and wholly satisfying. You do not need to take care of meeting or supply points. You do not need to wait an hour or extra to get to full warmth, and when you’re in, you do not need to perch on the bench, gingerly touching your again to ensure it isn’t burned. You do not need to fear about glass shattering or a neighborhood 5-year-old getting locked inside.
There are numerous different saunas the place you possibly can sit again with out a qualm and haven’t got to fret in regards to the door shattering. For instance, this one from Plunge can be Bluetooth-connected, you possibly can lean again in opposition to the seats comfortably, and it has a wood door! For $4,000, you may get a conventional house sauna from Costco. There may be one particular person, nevertheless, in my family who does repeatedly maintain sauna events, and I do suppose my 10-year-old likes the Solar House significantly better than I do. A sweaty, steamy room stuffed with bare dad and mom is a a lot much less interesting studying nook.