On the plus facet, the finishes are very good. It seems to be and feels sturdy. The faint scent of cedar within the air whenever you step inside is beautiful. As my daughter and the neighborhood youngsters can attest, it’s a lovely, cozy little nook wherein to curve up and browse a guide in the event you’re the little child of a perpetually chilly individual, and are additionally a perpetually chilly individual.
For me, it’s far more handy to open the Solar Residence app, let the sauna heat up for half-hour, and step into the yard than it’s to stroll three blocks to my fitness center, the place I’ve to justify going into the sauna by figuring out beforehand.
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You’ll be able to join your cellphone both by way of Bluetooth or USB and take heed to music or a podcast with Solar Residence’s ceiling-mounted audio system, which have a good depth of sound, even in the event you do actually hear the plosives whenever you’re listening to podcasts. You’ll be able to activate get together lights with the contact of a button on the management panel, to your get together of two.
There’s additionally a chromotherapy panel within the ceiling, which turns the sauna a type 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 below a pink gentle panel in some way didn’t make me overlook that I’d get Freddy Krueger-ed in my very own yard. You may as well 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 wish to take care of meeting or supply points. You do not wish to wait an hour or extra to get to full warmth, and when you’re in, you do not wish to perch on the bench, gingerly touching your again to ensure it isn’t burned. You do not wish to fear about glass shattering or a neighborhood 5-year-old getting locked inside.
There are a variety of different saunas the place you’ll be able to sit again and not using a qualm and do not have to fret concerning the door shattering. For instance, this one from Plunge can be Bluetooth-connected, you’ll be able to lean again in opposition to the seats comfortably, and it has a wood door! For $4,000, you will get a conventional house sauna from Costco. There’s one individual, nevertheless, in my family who does often maintain sauna events, and I do suppose my 10-year-old likes the Solar Residence a lot better than I do. A sweaty, steamy room stuffed with bare dad and mom is a a lot much less interesting studying nook.
