This one started it all. The Saltbox is my personal sauna — the build that turned an obsession into Good Heat Sauna Co.

The interior is a 6'x8' hot room paired with a 6'x8' covered porch that houses a custom cold plunge and a cold rinse shower, so the full hot-cold loop lives under one roofline. Every board of the clear vertical-grain cedar inside was repurposed from a 1970s home going through a remodel out at Black Butte Ranch near Sisters, OR. Old-growth material like that doesn't come around often, and giving it a second life in a sauna felt right.

The saltbox roofline isn't just for looks. The steep pitch was designed to circulate löyly and create a waterfall effect — steam rolls off the ceiling and cascades down over your head, shoulders, legs, and feet. It's a single top bench with steps up to it, putting you right in the hottest, best air in the room. Oak firewood stores in a bay beneath the bench for easy refueling mid-session.

Heat comes from a 12kW HUUM Hive wood-burning stove. Even though it's wood-fired, I plumbed in electrical so an electric heater stays an option down the road. The exterior is vertical 1x6 cedar treated with Yakisugi, and inside, cedar-diffused sconce lighting handles the corners — though most nights the glow from the fire does all the work.

My pride and joy, and the reason all of this exists.