On the plus facet, the finishes are very good. It appears to be like and feels sturdy. The faint scent of cedar within the air once you step inside is gorgeous. As my daughter and the neighborhood children can attest, it’s a stunning, cozy little nook through which to twist up and browse a e book if you happen to’re the little child of a perpetually chilly particular person, and are additionally a perpetually chilly particular person.
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 gymnasium, the place I’ve to justify going into the sauna by understanding beforehand.
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You may join your telephone both through 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 if you happen to do actually hear the plosives once you’re listening to podcasts. You may activate social gathering lights with the contact of a button on the management panel, on your social gathering of two.
There’s additionally a chromotherapy panel within the ceiling, which turns the sauna a sort of purplish pink. There are some small-scale research that help the concept that chromotherapy reduces nervousness. I turned it on a number of instances however discovered that sitting below a pink mild panel in some way didn’t make me overlook that I would get Freddy Krueger-ed in my very own yard. You can even 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 need to take care of meeting or supply points. You do not need to wait an hour or extra to get to full warmth, and when you’re in, you do not need to perch on the bench, gingerly touching your again to verify it is not burned. You do not need to fear about glass shattering or a neighborhood 5-year-old getting locked inside.
There are loads of different saunas the place you’ll be able to sit again with no qualm and do not have to fret concerning the door shattering. For instance, this one from Plunge can also be Bluetooth-connected, you’ll be able to lean again in opposition to the seats comfortably, and it has a picket door! For $4,000, you may get a conventional residence sauna from Costco. There’s one particular person, 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 mother and father is a a lot much less interesting studying nook.
