Sun Home Nova 3-Person - Indoor Traditional Sauna

Sun Home built its name on full-spectrum infrared. The Nova is the company's first move into traditional water-on-stones sauna, and it changes what a Sun Home install can be. Where the Equinox and Eclipse warm you with infrared panels at around 150 to 165°F, the Nova 3-Person runs a HUUM Drop 6kW electric rock heater that reaches roughly 230°F and makes real steam when you pour water over the stones. That loyly, the burst of humidity and heat off the rocks, is the entire point of classical Finnish bathing, and it is an experience infrared cabins cannot reproduce.

The build is genuinely considered. Canadian cedar lines the walls, and dual-stack benches give you two heat zones in one session: the upper bench for full intensity, the lower for a milder seat. The back wall is hand-laid with carbonized hexagonal tiles from a single workshop in Estonia, and the front is thermal-optimized black privacy glass matched to the Eclipse aesthetic, so it reads as architecture rather than a plywood box. Controls live in three places: the HUUM UKU remote, a capacitive button panel inside the cabin, and an RGB remote for the warm ambient LED tile lights and tunable ambient lighting. A built-in electric ventilation fan keeps fresh air moving, and Wi-Fi runs through the HUUM app today, with Sun Home app integration noted as coming.

Where it gives ground: this is a traditional sauna, so it is a permanent, hardwired install. A 6kW rock heater needs a dedicated 240V circuit, which means an electrician, and unlike the plug-in Equinox you are not moving this into a spare room on a whim. It also drops the built-in red light therapy that defines the Eclipse; the Nova is about heat and steam, not light. And because the Nova is brand new, warranty length and HSA/FSA status are best confirmed directly with Sun Home before you buy.

The buyer this is built for: someone who specifically wants traditional high-heat, high-humidity Finnish bathing at home, values the cedar-and-tile craftsmanship and the HUUM heater, and has the space and electrical for a permanent install. The buyer who should skip: anyone who wants a 120V plug-in cabin with no 240V wiring (the Sun Home Equinox), infrared plus built-in red light (the Eclipse), or the lower heat that makes daily infrared sessions easy.