With us, the homeowner still included it. I can’t say anything more specific, unfortunately. Since we have timber frame construction, we simply clad it with wood instead of the otherwise used Fermacell boards. WARNING! If you want to go to the timber dealer today, be sure to look out for low-resin wood. It’s really stupid if you stick with your bare butt to leaking resin. Okayyy, if you want a hairless butt, you can consider that an alternative sugaring – I would keep my distance from it. There is special wood for saunas that is treated accordingly. I would have liked Swiss pine too, but my husband finds the smell terrible.
Our sauna is about your size, only the roof slope is the other way around (you enter on the highest side and it slopes down to the back). In terms of height: only as high as absolutely necessary. The lower the height, the faster it gets warm inside. The size is enough for 2 people. We decided on a slightly different "interior design." Since the sauna is rather small anyway, all benches would have been somehow tight, either in depth or length. Therefore, we decided to make a large lying surface that is somewhat higher than the normal lower bench (about thigh height). Ideal for us, now you really have space to lie down. For the lying surfaces, there are practically ready-made bench elements from corresponding dealers. We made our lying surface from two such ready-made elements. Quite practical: if you want to clean under the lying surface, one simply folds up.
I quickly sketched a plan:
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View from outside to/in the sauna:
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The large lying surface (at about 76 cm height):
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(I would always prefer this over the usual benches for a small sauna! You simply have more space to lie down. Instead of a space-consuming fixed step, we simply bought the comfortable step stool from Ikea; that works great!)
Folded up for cleaning:
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(as you can see: simply placed on a suitably strong slat on the sides as a support)
These parts were purchased ready-made from a sauna manufacturer and thus ensure that you don’t get resin on your butt.
View from the inside when lying/sitting on the lying surface:
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At the back, we have lighting in the transition to the roof slope:
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(can be white, colored, or color-changing)
We don’t have a stereo. If we did, we could bring music into the bathroom with our USB speaker and phone, which you would also hear in the sauna. But actually, we enjoy the quiet there to relax.