This Minnesota couple sold their existing home and vacation cabin to build a beach-style lakeside house in the Twin Cities area, where their extended family could easily gather. To complete the “lake life” experience and nod to Minnesota’s Scandinavian heritage, they requested a bathroom with a traditional Finnish sauna. Here’s what it took for designer Amy Leferink, owner and principal designer of Interior Impressions, to fulfill their wish.
The bathroom can be accessed from what Leferink refers to as the “lakeside hallway,” which has a door leading out to a patio and then the lake. This way, family and guests can head straight from swimming to the sauna without traipsing through the main part of the house.
One enters the bathroom through a door into this central washroom. A toilet room is behind a door to the left, and a shower and sauna are through a pocket door on the right. (Scroll to the bottom to see the floor plan.) The separation of spaces allows multiple people to use the bathroom at once, says Leferink, who also worked with the clients on their previous house.