Anyone with a sauna in the house?

[Anonymous]

Has anyone built or converted a room in their house into a sauna?
How do you like it and how often do you use it?

Was it worth the hassle to get one?

Any idea on what that does to the house value?

[Anonymous]

Why yes, op we do. it is our entire second floor of our 1946 colonial in summer. Muggy and warm. Adds a lot of value to our home. We also have a u Kaye wading pool in our basement.

[Anonymous]

Damn iPad autocorrect... Meant to type unique.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why yes, op we do. it is our entire second floor of our 1946 colonial in summer. Muggy and warm. Adds a lot of value to our home. We also have a u Kaye wading pool in our basement.

where do you sleep?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone built or converted a room in their house into a sauna?
How do you like it and how often do you use it?

Was it worth the hassle to get one?

Any idea on what that does to the house value?

My friend's parents live in Clifton and have one. She said it came with the house and the parents have never used it.

[Anonymous]

My DH would love to have a sauna. He ski bummed a season in Jackson Hole after college and the group house he lived in had one. I doubt that most people would be that excited about one though.

[Anonymous]

We bought a house with a shower/sauna combination in the guest en suite. We used it when we first moved in but now that the novelty has worn off, the most use it's gotten is when I used it to melt snow from our roof during snomaggeddon. I still kind of like having it as an option for warming up on super cold days, but unless you are really into it it's probably not worth it.

As for converting a room to accommodate a sauna, I definitely would not waste a room's worth of real estate on it. The shower/sauna combo is as far as I would go. Too hard to find buyers who will go for it in the future. Rooms are more valuable for their other functions.

[Anonymous]

In terms of resale, a sauna would be a huge negative for me as a buyer. I would deduct from any offer the cost of ripping out the sauna and converting it back to something useful.

[Anonymous]

Do not own (never have) but I did rent a room in a house for about a year with a sauna in the backyard.

Everyone who lived in the house used it and loved it, but I would have to be a diehard sauna-goer to want one.

I lived in Europe too where saunas are much more part of the culture - and I think that is a huge part of the appeal too. It's more of a social experience (like a PP whose husband lived in a group house, similar experience to mine).

If I owned a house, I definitely would not use inside space for one - but if I had enough money and really thought I would use it, I might build one in my backyard.

[Anonymous]

I used to live in Northern Europe and any decent apartment and house had a sauna. The better houses had a separate structure (think a large shed) for this and it was wood-fired, while indoor units are usually electric.

Over there, it's part of the culture and people would hit the sauna every week and it's also a social thing.

[Anonymous]

OP do you want a pre-fab sauna?? I'm getting ready to put together a posting for craigslist as we're running out of room. The sauna came with the house but we need the space.

[Anonymous]

Our house came with one and we took it off and sold it on craigslist. It was huge and took two thirds of a room we made over as a playroom. My husband wanted to keep it, but we just needed the space.