Saunas

Start with the power, not the picture. The supply that actually reaches your villa decides more about this project than any aesthetic preference — a 6 kW stone heater is where a lot of Lombok single-phase supplies run out, and an infrared cabin exists precisely to sidestep that conversation. If your supply is strong or you are willing to upgrade it, everything else opens up.

Then count seats honestly. Two people live happily in a compact cabin — around 6 m³, a 6 kW heater, up to temperature in well under an hour. Four or more, or anyone tall, or a real wall of glass, and you want the full-size outdoor cabin with standing headroom and a two-tier bench.

Then look at the exposure. Every popular coast on this island — Kuta, Selong Belanak, Senggigi, out to the Gilis — puts a salt film on whatever the onshore breeze can reach, and the sun destroys any finish that cannot be renewed. So cladding is charred timber or bengkirai under a penetrating oil, every external fixing is A4/316 stainless, and the roof carries deep eaves and a covered step so monsoon rain sheds clear of the walls. Detailed that way, a cabin weathers instead of rotting — the species and finish logic is in the timber guide. Converting a room, working around a structural column, or building on a cliff edge? That is custom, and it starts with a drawing.

Building for guests rather than a household changes the sizing question again. A surf camp needs the room at temperature for the late-afternoon return from the water and recovering fast between groups, which usually argues for a compact cabin on a well-matched heater rather than one big hall. The commercial arithmetic is in wellness for boutique hotels; the recovery case itself is in sauna for surfers.

If you are wondering whether infrared counts as a real sauna, that comparison is here. And whatever you pick, it should be paired with cold — that is where the actual effect lives.