Nordic・Sauna: Wood, Heat, and Quiet

A small home sauna room. The interior is entirely made of light-colored spruce or aspen wood planks—walls, ceiling, and two-tiered stepped benches. The planks are laid horizontally, and the surface is not painted to avoid releasing odors at high temperatures. In the corner is a heater with stones, the stones are dark gray igneous rock, and next to it is a wooden bucket and a long-handled wooden ladle. There is steam in the air. A small square window or a glass door on the wall leads outside. The lighting is extremely dim, with only a low-wattage warm light hidden beneath the benches or behind a wooden grille, not dazzling. The wood has slightly darkened in color due to long-term use. Avoid: using dark wood and painted surfaces, adding bright ceiling lighting, using modern metal and tile equipment, depicting the space as spacious.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一間小型的家用桑拿房。內部全部以淺色的雲杉或白楊木板構成——牆、天花、兩層階梯狀的長凳,木板是水平鋪設的,表面沒有上任何漆以免高溫時釋放氣味。角落是一個放著石頭的加熱爐,石頭是深灰的火成岩,旁邊有一個木桶與一支長柄木杓。空氣中有蒸氣。牆上有一個小小的方形窗或一片玻璃門通往外面。照明極弱,只有一盞低瓦數的暖光燈藏在長凳下方或木格柵後,不刺眼。木頭因為長期使用而顏色略深。避免:使用深色木材與上漆的表面、加入明亮的天花照明、使用金屬與磁磚的現代設備、把空間畫得寬敞。