Custom Home Wellness Spaces
Bring the benefits of a luxury wellness retreat into your own home with custom saunas, steam rooms, infrared therapy rooms, and ice baths from Big Sky Outdoor Spaces.
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Whether you're looking to relax after a long day, enhance your recovery routine, or create a dedicated space for health and wellness, we can help design a solution tailored to your lifestyle.
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From compact home installations to fully customized wellness spaces, our team works with you to create an environment that blends seamlessly with your home while delivering lasting comfort, performance, and style.
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Heat and cold therapy have been used for generations to promote relaxation, support muscle recovery, improve circulation, and encourage overall well-being.
Traditional Saunas vs Infrared
This is the first question almost everyone asks, and there is no universally right answer. They are different experiences.
Traditional Saunas
A traditional sauna heats the air, usually to somewhere between 150 and 195 degrees, and you can pour water over the stones to raise the humidity. It is the intense, enveloping heat most people picture, and the ritual of it is a large part of the appeal. It takes longer to preheat and uses more power.
Infrared
Infrared warms your body directly rather than heating the room around you, so it runs at a much lower air temperature, typically 120 to 150 degrees. People who find traditional saunas too intense often prefer it, and sessions tend to be longer and gentler. It heats up faster and generally draws less power.
How to Choose
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If you want the classic experience, steam on the rocks, and heat you can feel the moment you open the door, go traditional.
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If you want something you can use most days without it feeling like an event, or if high heat is uncomfortable for you, go infrared.
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If more than one person in the house will use it and you disagree on heat, come try both before deciding rather than after.
Steam Rooms
A steam room is the humid counterpart to a dry sauna. Lower temperature, near-total humidity, and a very different feeling on the skin and airways. People who find dry heat harsh often prefer it.
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Steam is also the most construction-dependent of the three. It needs a sealed, fully waterproofed enclosure, correct slope for drainage, the right surfaces, and ventilation, because moisture that escapes into the surrounding structure is a serious problem later. This is not an appliance you set in a corner, it is a build.
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That is worth knowing before you compare a steam room's price against a sauna's. The unit is part of the cost, and the room around it is the rest.
Cold Plunges and Ice Baths
Cold water immersion has become a fixture in recovery routines, and for good reason: many people find it leaves them feeling alert and less sore after hard training. What it will not do is any of the things the more aggressive corners of the internet claim, and we are not going to tell you otherwise.
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What it does require is honest planning. Chilling and filtering water is equipment, and that equipment needs power, a place to live, and access for service. Water needs to stay sanitary, so filtration and treatment are part of owning one, not an optional extra.
Pairing Hot and Cold
Most people who add a plunge already have or want heat nearby, and the two do work well together in the same space. If you are considering both, plan them together. Shared drainage, shared power, and one layout that puts them a few steps apart rather than at opposite ends of the house.
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If you already have a hot tub, a plunge is often the easier addition of the two.
Our Wellness Installations
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Traditional saunas
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Infrared therapy rooms
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Custom steam rooms
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Therapeutic ice baths and cold plunges
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Indoor and outdoor wellness spaces
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Residential and commercial installations
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Custom finishes and seating
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Professional installation and support
An indoor sauna or steam room becomes part of the house, which means it has to be planned like part of the house. Floor loading, a moisture-tolerant surface, ventilation, clearances around the heater, and a circuit run to it. Basements and spare bathrooms are the two most common homes for these.
Indoor
Indoor or Outdoor
Both work. What changes is the prep.
An outdoor sauna is a Montana argument in its own right. Stepping out into cold air after heat is the whole point for a lot of people, and there is something to be said for a sauna that is a short walk from the back door rather than a room you have to give up.
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Outdoors it needs a level, load-rated pad or deck, power run to it, and a build detailed for weather. We handle the pad, the decking, and the path to it, which is usually the part that gets forgotten until it is January and there is no clear route from the house.
Outdoor
Commercial Installations
Design, Product
Selection, and Installation
We take commercial work as well as residential. Gyms, recovery studios, physical therapy practices, hotels, and short-term rentals are all adding heat and cold therapy, and the requirements are different from a home install: higher usage, tougher durability expectations, accessibility, and equipment that will be running all day rather than twice a week.
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If you are specifying a wellness space for a business, bring us in early. Layout, capacity, power, and drainage are much cheaper to solve on paper than after the space is framed.
Whether you're creating a personal wellness sanctuary, upgrading your home's amenities, or adding recovery features to a fitness space, Big Sky Outdoor Spaces provides expert guidance from design and product selection through professional installation.
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Most of these need electrical, and steam rooms need plumbing and drainage as well. You have two options and we are happy either way. We can bring in the electrician or plumber as a subcontractor and coordinate the schedule, or you can hire your own and we will give them the specifications ahead of time. Either way you will know the requirements before you commit, not after.
Schedule a Free Consultation
A wellness space is the one project people research for months and then hesitate on, usually because they are not sure which version they actually want. Traditional heat or infrared. A sauna alone or a sauna and a plunge. Inside the house or out in the yard.
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Those are quick conversations once you are talking to someone who installs these rather than someone selling one model. We will ask how you plan to use it, how often, and who else in the house will, then point you at the right configuration even if it is the smaller one.
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Placement matters too. A sauna needs the right floor, the right clearances, and power run to it. Getting that settled before you buy is what keeps the install from turning into a remodel.
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Come by the showroom, send photos and rough measurements, or ask us to take a look in person if the project calls for it. You get a written scope before anyone picks up a tool, and there is no charge for the conversation.
