Layout oddities. Bathroom with en-suite bedroom!

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Just nosing on the net.

I guess compromises had to be made, but this is an odd one!

espc.com/property/42-dean-street-edinburgh-eh4-1lw/35740305?sid=453522

That is a really strange layout, to have to go through the bathroom to get to the bedroom is really odd. I would have shifted the living room kitchen to the back and had the bedroom and bathroom at the front. Very unusual use of space

Whoops just looked again and I've totally missed that the front door opens into the room at the front. Very odd

It is a strange layout, but I would live there, it’s lovely and I like to live somewhere that is a bit quirky.

Create a corridor as you go in with bedroom to the left. Put bathroom where the kitchen in with access off corridor. Turn rear of flat into lounge/kitchen with doors to garden.

I watch too much Homes Under the Hammer. It's what Lucy would say.

Actually, I don't think it's all that bad a layout for a one bedroom flat. If you're entertaining and people need to use the loo at least they don't have to walk through your bedroom to get there. There will only ever be a single person or a couple living there. For a single person it won't matter that you walk through a bathroom, and plenty of couples are comfortable with their partner being around while they use the bathroom.

Maybe like this

I think creating a corridor in the front room would leave a very narrow space for the bedroom and probably devalue the house.

It's quirky, but it's cute.

But you'd get direct access to the garden off the living area rather than having to go through the bathroom (!) and bedroom. I'd rather have a small bedroom and just sleep there. You could make the bathroom a smidge smaller.

It's 4.4 x 4m. You could steal 1.4 for the corridor and still have a double bedroom.

Why not take the kitchen all the way across and have a door to the bedroom? Then the bathroom would be ensuite and the kitchen bigger? Probably wouldn't get more kitchen cupboards because of the extra door but more floor space.

Buffering, that makes lots of sense and space would be gained instead of lost!

I'm not going to be buying it since a family of 4 + 2 dogs would find it a slightly tight fit (and it's very expensive).

I think it's cute! I think in a property that size at least there's no wasted space - and I'm usually a fan of corridors for separation.

My first ever flat was a bit of an annoyance. It was ground floor, and the flow was:

Large kitchen (full length front to back of flat)
Large lounge (full length again)
... those two made up half of the flat. Then...
Corridor leading through the middle of the other half, turning left around a double bedroom to another door.
A single bedroom (on the right)
A shower room.

The second doorway was about 12m away from the first, ffs, and just provided a direct entrance to the flat. Remove the corridor and the spare bedroom could be the double, and the shower room a proper bathroom!

That is expensive for 450 sq ft with a dodge layout.

this isn't an unusual layout for Edinburgh flats. It will be down to load bearing walls I reckon.

Whilst unusual I don't think it's actually that bad as it's a one bed.

this isn't an unusual layout for Edinburgh flats

Hmm, I respectfully disagree. I grew up in Edinburgh and just about everyone I knew lived in tenements, but that's not a layout I've ever come across before. There are certainly some very long, thin bathrooms and cupboard-sized kitchens but this is definitely an odd layout!

It’s a tenament, they often have strange layouts. There would have been no indoor toilets/bathrooms when it was originally built so at some point they were added .
Depending on we’re the sewer pipe is some have to have toilet in a random place.

I’ve seen some with a toilet/sink in one part of a flat and a shower in a cupboard elsewhere.

I’ve seen some with a toilet/sink in one part of a flat and a shower in a cupboard elsewhere.

My student DD and her BF rent a tenement in Fountainbridge with exactly that arrangement. The entire hall cupboard is tiled and filled with the shower tray. You have to hang a towel on the back of the door and wrap yourself in it before you step out of the shower into the hall!

I haven't had occasion to have to use it thankfully!

I wouldn't say it's a standard Edinburgh layout either. Skinny bathrooms are a speciality but not en route to the bedroom. Wouldn't call it a tenement either tbh.

I don't think it's awful though, I'd rather that than the bedroom being en suite. I know that street and wouldn't want bedroom at front as it would be pretty noisy - it's a bit of a rat run and cobbled.

I'm. It saying it's a "standard" layout just that it's not that unusual in Edinburgh. I also lived there plus went to uni there so saw some very odd layouts. The one I remember best was the "two bed" flat that an ex boyfriend and his mate rented. Only one room had a window! And the communal shower was in one of the bedrooms. They lived there for 3 years too, no idea how they lasted that long.

I rented a room in a large Edinburgh tenement many years ago. My room was the cheapest in the flat at £25pw. It was about 3mx3m and had only a very high window into another bedroom. It was essentially just the boxroom of a large flat.

Many of the HMO properties in Edinburgh have bizarre layouts with square rooms being chopped into two long rooms, luckily only with stud walls so they can be reversed back into their former glory.

That sounds like your standard Morningside/Bruntsfield wedge the student in styles. You get some cracking examples of those - I think my favourite was a 5 bedroom flat with a floor space of 70-odd square metres. It was hilariously awful.

Standard approach seems to be to put a sofa in the kitchen, meaning the livingroom is now a bedroom. +1 room

Use the box room as a bedroom if possible. +1 room. Or make it in to a second shower room if not.

Split any room which has two windows (not unusual) in to two. Often add 1 or two rooms.

And lo, a 2 bedroom beautifully proportioned flat which would have had a big lounge, big kitchen and two decent doubles with a box room for storage is transformed in to a 5 or 6 bedroomed monstrosity!

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You've described them so much better that I did!

My DD and her BF rent a 2-bed' flat, but since it's a corner flat, the 2nd bedroom is very small and triangular. It would be very difficult to furnish, and actually has a high frame built into it with a mattress on top. Very odd layout, but built that way over 100years ago.