Sauna — 01
Mediterranean Estate
Orange County, CA
2025
Heat.
Sauna — 01
Mediterranean Estate / Orange County, CA / 2025
We offer custom saunas — one cabin design, drawn for your space and your home. Black cedar outside, warm wood inside, full-glass front, basalt stones over an electric heater, and a built-in cedar shower on the side. Twenty minutes to ready. Step in at the end of the day and the week leaves the room with you.
What you get, at a glance. The materials, the heat, the light, the details — built to spec and installed by us.
Shou-sugi-ban finish. Black, weather-resistant, ages beautifully.
Light, warm wood — soft on skin, hand-finished.
Quiet, precise, ready in twenty minutes. Basalt stones.
Integrated into the side of the cabin. Rinse before heat, cool off after — no walk back to the house.
Frameless door. Openness, daylight, the garden visible.
Warm-dim, fully concealed. No fixtures in sight.
Heat is one of the oldest practices the body knows, and one of the steadiest. A few sessions a week is enough to feel it within weeks — and to compound it for years.
A sauna moves blood the way exercise does — opening vessels, training the heart, lowering pressure year after year. Few daily habits compound this quietly, or this reliably, over the long arc of a life.
Muscles loosen. Inflammation quiets. The day's tension melts off your shoulders, and what came in heavy walks out clean. Sport, work, a long week — heat answers all of it.
Twenty minutes alone, in heat and silence. No phone, no one wanting anything. The nervous system shifts out of survival mode — and you walk back into a day that looks completely different than the one you left.
Raise the core temperature in the evening, let it fall, and sleep finds you sooner and holds you longer. The body learns the cue within weeks — and forgets that sleep was ever a problem.
Sweat opens pores. Circulation lifts to the surface and stays there. The practice shows in skin and complexion within weeks — most people notice before they're ready to admit they have.
One installation, used by everyone in the house. Kids after sports. Partners winding down. Parents on quiet mornings before the world is awake. A daily habit a family does together — probably the healthiest one going.
Cabin or built-in. Indoor or outdoor. Drawn from a blank page and designed in Southern California, then assembled on site. Below are the materials and configurations we work with. Anything not listed, we can usually do.
Charred cedar (shou-sugi-ban)
Smoked oak
Blackened steel
Natural cedar, oil-finished
Stucco-clad to match house
Thermo-aspen
Western red cedar
Nordic spruce
Basswood, hypoallergenic
Hemlock
Electric, 6–9 kW
Wood-burning
Full-spectrum infrared
Hybrid (electric + IR)
Stones: basalt, olivine
1–2 person, 1.8 × 1.5 m
4 person, 2.4 × 2.0 m
6+ person, 2.8 × 2.4 m
Outdoor cabin or barrel
Built-in to existing room
Step in at the end of the day. The cedar warms first, then your skin, then your shoulders. Twenty minutes later, the week leaves the room with you.
From the first conversation to the day you walk in. Eight to twelve weeks, fixed schedule, one team.
A free consultation. We walk your space, talk through how you want to use it, sketch options. No pressure, no scripts.
Week 1Drawings of your install, materials chosen, every detail confirmed. A fixed quote — no change orders, no surprises.
Weeks 1–2Designed in Southern California, tested at full heat, then taken apart for delivery.
Weeks 3–8On-site assembly, commissioning, and walkthrough. The same hands that designed and built it.
2–3 daysOn install day we walk you through care, hand you the keys, and leave our direct number. Available by phone if anything comes up.
Day ofA few recent saunas in Southern California. Every project, custom-drawn for the home.