Bizarre Edinburgh rental flat with baffling bathroom design leaves people shaking their heads

Edinburgh's rental market has become pretty unhinged in recent years, with prices soaring to an unbelievable extent.

According to Home.co.uk, the average monthly rent in Edinburgh is currently around £1,481, with one-bedroom properties averaging £1,035 and three-bedroom properties averaging £1,896.

Given the staggering cost of keeping a roof over your head in the capital, it's unsurprising that people have become more willing to overlook strange property quirks as they hunt for something relatively affordable.

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The latest unusual flat layout to raise eyebrows on social media is a two-bedroom property in Glen Street, near Fountainbridge, which is being marketed for £1050 per month.

On the surface, it looks pretty standard (albeit less than luxurious), with potentially draughty sash windows, high ceilings and beige carpets that look like they've seen better days, and which possibly weren't beige originally.

But it's the bathroom that really stands out. It appears to be situated in a very (very) narrow converted hallway, and to get into it you have to actually walk through the shower. No, we're not kidding.

A Reddit user shared a photo of the weird setup on the Edinburgh subreddit, with the caption: "For £1050pm you too can walk through your shower to get to the bathroom!"

The post sparked a lot of amusement online, with people leaping into the comment section to share how they felt about the concept of showering in a doorway.

One of the top replies was: "Believe it or not, nuclear shelters are built exactly like this. Come through the blast door, down the long damp corridor, then if you get through the second blast door, you must shower before you're allowed any further into the facility."

While someone else, a bit less intellectually, said: "Good for decontaminating after a particularly egregious s***e."

Another person quipped: "Better than walking through your toilet to shower, I suppose."

Interestingly, someone who claimed to have genuine insider knowledge also popped up, saying: "I lived here and it was actually not as bad as you'd think. I added clips to the wall so the shower curtain made it like a proper little shower, I also added a wooden duck board in after I showered to use as a dry step."

The price sparked a lot of conversation too, with some people said that they'd happily put up with the world's narrowest bathroom if it meant 'only' paying £1050 for a two bedroom flat that close to the city centre.

One person wrote, quite dejectedly: "Literally the worst part about all of this is that it’s quite a good deal at the end of the day."

The flat's still available for rent at the time of writing - you can check out the listing and the rest of the photographs here.

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