Private residence spa with 4 wet rooms
Sauna Dekor Spa Solutions designed, manufactured and installed the private residence spa on this page: 4 wet rooms that open off one shared corridor. There is a glass mosaic steam room, a Finnish sauna in dark timber, a Turkish hammam in marble and tile, and a separate jacuzzi room. All 9 photographs on this page are of the finished spa.
Project facts: Private residence · Scope: spa design, manufacture and installation · Zones: sauna, steam room, hammam, jacuzzi · Finishes: glass mosaic, dark timber, striped marble, patterned tile, large-format grey tile
One corridor that connects all 4 rooms
The 4 rooms share one front zone with a striped white-and-grey marble floor and linear ventilation grilles in the ceiling. The steam room opens onto it through a black-framed glass door, and the sauna through a full smoked-glass front. Through the sauna glass the tiled niches of the hammam are visible, so 3 of the 4 rooms can be seen from the corridor at once.
Because every room opens onto the same dry corridor, moving between heat, steam and water never means crossing a wet floor.
A glass mosaic steam room with a vaulted ceiling
The walls, benches and floor of the steam room are covered in small glass mosaic in olive and bronze tones; the mosaic stops at the top of the walls along 1 curved line, and above it the ceiling is a smooth white vault. The ceiling is curved because in a steam room condensation forms there: on a flat ceiling it drips onto the bather, on a curved one it runs down to the walls.
The benches are curved with rounded edges, finished in the same mosaic, with a concealed LED strip underneath that washes the floor in light. A hand shower is mounted on the wall and a floor drain takes the water away.
A Finnish sauna in dark timber
The sauna is lined in vertical slats of dark timber on the walls and ceiling, with 2 tiers of L-shaped benches. Warm LED strips run under the backrest and under each bench tier, 2 slatted wall lights sit on the side walls and 1 thermo-hygrometer is mounted on the wall. A full-height smoked-glass front faces the corridor.
The heater stands inside a slatted wooden guard, with the sauna stones in the heater’s own tray on top, and a wooden bucket stands ready for water. A traditional Finnish sauna runs at 80–100 °C with dry air.
A Turkish hammam in striped marble and patterned tile
The hammam walls and floor are striped white-and-grey marble. 3 ogee-arched niches are lined with blue and turquoise tiles in an Iznik-style pattern and outlined with LED. In front of them, carved marble basins (kurna) with brass taps sit on a marble ledge, and 1 niche holds a brass hand shower.
A marble göbek taşı (heated central platform) stands in the middle, under an oval recess in the flat ceiling, lit with fibre-optic stars. Room air in a Turkish hammam is held at 40–50 °C.
A jacuzzi room in large-format grey tile
The jacuzzi is the 4th room and stands on its own. The bath surround and the walls are clad in large-format grey tile, and the floor continues the striped marble of the corridor. Glass partitions separate the room from the corridor, so daylight and views run through and the spa reads as 1 continuous space.
Related projects and guides
We have built 2 other projects worth comparing with this 4-room spa. For a steam room finished entirely in glass mosaic, see our glass mosaic steam room project; for a villa where a hammam and a wellness suite were planned together, see the villa hammam and wellness suite.
Our modern hammam page covers marble and tile options, the history of the hammam explains the kurna and the heated platform, sauna vs steam room compares the two heat rooms, what is a jacuzzi covers the whirlpool bath, and our projects archive lists the rest of our delivered work. Sauna Dekor was founded in 1987 and has 40 years of manufacturing, a team of 19 and 5,000+ projects in 35+ countries.
