Do you have a sauna in your garden?

[MotherofPirates]

Moving to a new house with a decent sized garden and really fancy a sauna but looking online is vv confusing! There are lots of different types and they all berate the style they are not selling! I don't have a huge amount to spend but want something that's going to blend into the garden and last. Any opinions/experiences?

[OnePlanOnHouzz]

Don't put it too far from the house as you will get cold going too and from it ! Cedar weathers well... Not much more info I can add ?! (Have designed then in pool and gym areas in houses but not garden ones ! )

[MovingOnUpMovingOnOut]

Your neighbours will think you are Sex People.

Although if you cut back all your pampas grass and replace it with privet you may get away with it.

[lapcat]

I have one of these in our holiday let. It seems to work well and we've had no complaints, but it was only installed 6 months ago so I can't comment on longevity. We didn't pay this much for it - it was in a hot tub/sauna deal.

www.outdoorlivinghottubs.co.uk/products/deluxe-barrel-sauna?variant=9943560900

[PookieK]

Are you actually my husband? We are moving soon and he has developed a strange obsession with getting a sauna in the garden...? I am doing everything I can to put him off as I think its an unnecessary expense when the house needs a rewire/plumbing/new kitchen etc!!

Am especially not keen for the (quite posh) new neighbours to think we are 'sex people' .

Mmm I may need help to put him off - any other suggestions for convincing him we really don't need/want it welcomed.

[Qwebec]

I thaught the idea of personal saunas died with the 70's. Apparently not!
Pookied would your husband really use it enough to make it worthwile?

[ErnesttheBavarian]

We have an infra red sauna in our bedroom. I guess purists want the real thing but I think the faff would put me off. I use it I'd say probably most evening. Especially now. I used it less in the summer. At the press if a button it's on. Afterwards shower and into bed. I really think having one in the garden would vastly reduce hiw much I used it. Plus I'd be mortified if the neighbours thought we were sex people, especially as one of my pupils lives 2 doors down!

[MotherofPirates]

Yes the sex people thing had occurred to me but I think only English people think saunas=swingers and I see us more as Europeans .

As yet I have no pampas grass (or wicker hearts) PookieK I am defo not your husband but I think we would get on (seriously not doing myself any favours in the "we are not swingers stakes") in that there is much that needs doing in the house that I should really prioritise - just like the idea of somewhere to unwind.

How would the neighbours know anyway I'm thinking it will just look like a shed/garden office?

[MisForMumNotMaid]

Wicker hearts? My mums just got me one. She's a very straight laced ex primary teacher. Wicked sense of humour after a few drinks though. Now i'm trying to think if she gave it to me after our boozy mothers day lunch.

[CakeandRoses]

Yes we do. We put it in a couple of years ago and it's used most weekends.

It's right at the end of our quite big garden which I thought would be a pain but I love walking back through the fresh air, boiling hot from the sauna.

We have the standard type with a heater element thingy that you can chuck water on.

[ForalltheSaints]

Sounds idyllic if you have the space, as long as you have a robe to walk to and from the sauna. I suppose you need to ensure you cannot be viewed from the outside as the only way in my view to have a sauna is without clothes.

[orchidnap]

Am I the only one thinking of that episode of men behaving badly?

[HoneyDragon]

We're planning on putting one in our garage. I assume the neighbours have guessed we're sex people as we have two children

[ForalltheSaints]

I went to an event a couple of weeks ago with a sauna in a garden, just for the one evening. It was idyllic, though a bit cold outside after leaving the sauna.

[MotherofPirates]

Sorry realise this is a bit old now but have been busy moving house (what a drag). HoneyDragon and CakeAndRoses what type/make of sauna did you go for?