A DIY Sauna Project on the Cheap
Readers, to mark our 50th anniversary as a magazine, we’re reprinting some of the more colorful stories from our archive. This was originally published in the March/April 1978 issue.
— MOTHER
The advertisement showed a towel-clad model reclining on a redwood bench in a handsome paneled room. Healthy beads of perspiration trickled down her brow as she ladled water from a wooden bucket onto the stones in the heater. The caption read, “Build this beautiful, healthful Finnish sauna. Kits as low as $449.” [That’s nearly $1,800 in 2020 dollars.]
I said to myself, “Sure
