Analog Sauna

Indoor saunas · Cincinnati

The craft is the difference.

A sauna is a small building inside your building — heat, moisture, air, and wood, all working against each other unless every board is planned. This is how we build them.

Black thermometer on a cedar wall
01 · The instruments
Cedar headrest resting on an upper bench
02 · The rest
Cedar bucket, ladle, and towel on a bench corner
03 · The ritual

No. 1

The Room

Every room is designed for the house it lives in — ceiling height, framing, ventilation, the path you walk to reach it. Then it is built and commissioned by the workshop.

Plan · Specify · Build · Commission

Cantilevered cedar bench geometry
Fig. 1 — Bench geometry, clear cedar
Stone-loaded heater beside cedar benches
Fig. 2 — Heater, stone-loaded

No. 2

The Heat

Stone-loaded heaters, sized to the room and wired right the first time. The equipment disappears; the heat is what you remember.

Sized to volume · Wired once


Thermometer on cedar, wide crop

Built for ritual.