Thursday, April 30, 2009

Kit vs Custom

As we continue to move towards the home sauna, I now face a dilemma: so I throw down a slab of concrete and order a sauna kit and slap it up, or do I have a custom sauna designed and built by some Joe?

With the kit, you know what you're getting - a quality rig both inside and out. Everything will work and it will be what you need it to be -- hot.

But a sauna is just a room, right? A room with cedar walls and a sauna oven in it. Won't it be cheaper and better to just build that room myself, slap some cedar on the walls, throw and oven in the corner and start to sweat? Also, what about the possibility of building the sauna into the landscape? You can't do that with a kit.

We're meeting with the landscape architect next week, and I intend to see how far I can stretch the architect part of that. Wish me luck, dear internet.