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Looking for trusted sauna suppliers in Ireland? Garden Living Solutions designs, supplies and fits high-quality sauna cabins and outdoor wellness spaces for homeowners, hotels, gyms and other properties throughout Ireland.
Based in Dublin and backed by more than 40 years of experience in the construction, engineering and building industry, we provide a complete sauna supply and installation service from initial requirements through to professional fitting.
Our bespoke saunas are designed to create a private wellness space in your garden, home or commercial property. Whether you are looking for a compact garden sauna, a larger outdoor sauna cabin or a complete wellness area incorporating, our team can help you choose a solution that suits your space, lifestyle and budget.
From compact home wellness areas to larger commercial installations, we focus on practical solutions that look at home within their surroundings. A well-planned outdoor sauna can become a natural extension of your garden, providing a dedicated space for relaxation without requiring a major alteration to your main home.
As established sauna suppliers in Dublin, we work with customers across the capital and throughout Ireland.
Our Dublin base gives us extensive experience of designing and installing garden living solutions for Irish homes, while our nationwide service means customers outside Dublin can also benefit from our expertise.
We understand that choosing a sauna is about more than buying a product. It is about creating a durable, attractive and practical addition to your property.
That is why we take a project-led approach, combining quality products with professional installation and construction experience.
Our sauna cabins are particularly suited to customers who want to transform an underused garden into a dedicated relaxation and wellness space.
We offer a choice of sauna cabin sizes, including Mini, Maxi and Grande configurations, allowing you to select a design that works with the available space.
Our sauna specifications can include a 3.0m barrel sauna, an electric Harvia 9kW stove, sauna stones, black alder benches, tempered glass doors, a shingle tile roof and stainless-steel tightening hoops.
These features combine traditional sauna design with practical construction suited to outdoor use.
For customers looking for a more complete outdoor wellness experience, sauna cabins can also be considered alongside plunge pools and hot tubs.
This creates a convenient private retreat where you can relax, unwind and enjoy wellness facilities at home.
A sauna can be an excellent addition to a modern garden, particularly where homeowners want to make better use of outdoor space. We can help you consider the cabin size, position, access and relationship with other garden features.
For commercial clients, we can also discuss requirements for wellness facilities and larger projects.
Professional Sauna Supply & Installation
Choosing experienced sauna companies is important when you want a quality installation rather than simply a delivered product. Garden Living Solutions can supply and fit your sauna, helping to ensure that the cabin is positioned and installed correctly as part of your wider garden living project.
With over four decades of experience in construction and related building disciplines, we understand the importance of sound design, durable materials, accurate installation and attention to detail.
Our wider experience in modular homes, garden rooms, extensions and other outdoor structures also gives us a strong understanding of how a sauna can integrate with an existing property.
When comparing sauna suppliers in Ireland, look for experience, product quality, installation expertise and a company that understands the Irish climate. Garden Living Solutions brings all four together.
We are Dublin-based, but our modular homes and garden living solutions are supplied and fitted nationwide. Our team can discuss your requirements, available space and preferred sauna style before recommending a suitable solution.
If you are searching for sauna suppliers in Dublin, outdoor sauna suppliers in Ireland or a sauna company that can supply and install your new sauna, Garden Living Solutions is ready to help.
Contact our team to discuss your project and discover how a bespoke sauna cabin could transform your garden into a comfortable, private wellness space.
Our bestselling barrel sauna is 2.05m (W) x 1.6m (D) x 2.35m (H)
2–3 persons
Thermowood
Tempered Glass Door: 1690 x 590mm
Bitumen shingles
A portico changes an entrance more significantly than a simple door canopy. It creates a defined structure around the doorway, normally with its own roof form and visible supports, and becomes part of the architecture of the front elevation.
Garden Living Solutions designs and builds house porticos in Ireland for properties where the entrance needs stronger definition, more weather protection or a more considered relationship with the rest of the facade.
A successful portico depends heavily on proportion. The roof, columns, projection and overall width have to relate to the doorway and the scale of the house. When those proportions are wrong, adding more decorative detail does not solve the problem. The entrance should look more resolved after the portico is installed, not busier.
A modern portico generally uses simpler geometry, restrained detailing and a strong relationship with contemporary windows, doors and external finishes. Square supports, steel or aluminium framing and flatter roof forms can work well where the house already has a modern architectural language.
A traditional portico may use a pitched roof, columns and more defined trim, particularly where the property already includes classical or period influences. Traditional does not need to mean overly decorative. Careful scale and alignment usually create a more convincing result than adding multiple ornamental details.
Bespoke porticos are particularly useful because every entrance is slightly different. Door widths, sidelights, windows, steps, gutters and approach paths all influence the dimensions. Even houses of the same general type can need different portico proportions.
A front entrance portico can also correct an elevation where the doorway feels visually too small or undefined. That effect should come primarily from structure and proportion rather than decoration.
Material choice affects both the structure and appearance. A steel portico can provide a strong frame with relatively slim structural members and suits many contemporary entrances. An aluminium portico can also work well for modern properties and offers low-maintenance exterior performance when specified correctly.
A timber portico can suit properties where a warmer material or traditional detailing is more appropriate. Timber provides considerable flexibility in profiles and joinery, but exterior finishing and ongoing maintenance should be understood from the beginning.
Materials can also be combined. A structural frame may use one material while rendered, clad or painted elements are added to connect the portico more closely with the house. The important part is consistency. Roof thickness, support dimensions and finishing details should look as though they were designed together rather than assembled from unrelated components.
Projection should also be based on use. A shallow porch portico may provide enough cover for a simple front door, while a larger entrance may need space for two people to stand comfortably outside.
The roof needs enough projection to provide meaningful shelter without extending so far that it dominates the front of the house. Its pitch should also make sense alongside the main roof and nearby architectural features.
Columns or supports carry much of the visual weight of a portico. If they are too narrow, the roof can appear unsupported. If they are too heavy, the entrance can feel cramped. Their position should also preserve a clear route to the door and avoid narrowing steps or pathways.
Rainwater needs a deliberate route away from the entrance. Gutters and downpipes may be concealed or expressed depending on the design, but water should not simply discharge onto the steps below. Exterior lighting, cameras, doorbells and house numbers should also be incorporated into the layout.
Once a portico roof is added, an existing wall light may no longer illuminate the entrance effectively. Integrated or repositioned fittings can improve the result, but cable routes are easiest to conceal when they are planned before finishes are completed.
Portico cost in Ireland depends on width, projection, roof design, support structure, material, foundations, finish and how much alteration is required around the existing entrance. A compact house portico on a straightforward facade is a very different project from a wide structure with substantial columns, custom cladding and integrated drainage.
Planning requirements should also be checked for the specific property and proposal rather than assumed. Size, position and the individual house can all influence what permissions may apply.
Installation involves more than attaching decorative parts around the doorway. Foundations, structural connections, roof weathering and drainage all have to work together. Steps and thresholds should also be reviewed during design. A new support can conflict with an existing narrow step, and a larger roof may change where rainwater falls around the entrance.
Existing door surrounds, brick reveals, fanlights and sidelights also influence where the structure should sit. Covering them without considering their proportions can make the entrance feel crowded. A measured design allows the portico to strengthen the doorway rather than obscure features that already work.
The portico should also be considered from the approach to the house, not only in a close-up elevation. A design that looks correctly proportioned beside the door can still feel too heavy when seen from the gate or driveway. Looking at the full frontage helps establish whether the roof line, column spacing and overall height support the architecture of the house.
Material junctions need the same care as the main components. Where a new portico meets render, brick, cladding or existing paving, the transition should be deliberate. Awkward cover strips and oversized sealant joints can make an otherwise well-proportioned structure feel improvised. These connections should be resolved as part of the design rather than left to site adjustment.
Maintenance should be understood before materials are chosen. Timber can provide fine detailing but will need periodic exterior care. Metal structures can reduce routine maintenance but depend on good fabrication and durable coatings. Rendered elements may match the house closely, although they add wet trades and weather-sensitive junctions. The best material is the one that suits the property and the level of maintenance the owner is prepared to accept.
The relationship with the front path or driveway is worth resolving before the final width is fixed. A portico that projects beyond the natural approach line can make the entrance feel obstructed, while one that is too narrow may leave visitors standing outside the sheltered area. The structure should support the way people arrive at the door rather than force them around its columns.
