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Wilmette Sanctuary Home – Spa Bathroom 150 150 Administrator

Wilmette Sanctuary Home – Spa Bathroom

A lower-level spa in this modern sanctuary home features a steam room, sauna, and soaking tub with details like a door made from a cross-section of a single tree, cove lighting and brick-lined window well to create an incredible spa retreat and luxurious spa bathroom. Take a tour with Amy Berka, SSDB Lead Architect. See the project description and stunning library of photos.

Enjoy the whole video series of this modern new construction home in Wilmette!

Video transcript:

We think of this lower level as a place where you come and, not hibernate necessarily, but this is where you come down and really take care of yourself. So, to my left here we have a sauna, which is incredible. And to my right we have a beautiful walnut slab door that covers the entrance to the toilet room.

And what’s so cool about the slide on it is there’s no visible track when you look at the top. Normally with a barn style door you have a track and you have rollers. This is a magic door. We have a beautiful all-natural glass tile. We have a concrete floor, but this just brings a little bit of warmth that you experience upstairs, downstairs.

There are so many exceptional moments in this house that I’m incredibly proud of. And what we’re looking at here is a big shower room that has a tub in it. There’s a window well here with a giant sheet of glass. And the way that we’ve trimmed the window, you can’t see the window frame because we just have beautiful stone jam which matches the countertop here. And you look through the window well and we’ve clad the inside of that window well with common brick, coming back again. So, every opportunity that we have to reinforce the material we do. And when you look through that window you almost feel like you’re in a fish tank.

Something that we paid particular attention to in this bathroom is having multiple sources of light. So, we have recess lights overhead. But what we also have, is we have a cove light at the ceiling, which sort of lights the top of our tile. And these cabinets here are raised up off of the floor. And we also have below that a cove light. So, we get this really beautiful glow.

The owner is really exploring this idea between extreme hot and extreme cold. There’s people out there who believe that if you have a sauna, you’re in there for 15 minutes, what you should do immediately after that is jump into an ice bath. So in our mechanical room we have an ice maker. The bucket is for the ice. It gets dumped in the water and we have the thermometer there to check the temperature. Pretty cool right?