Photo: Courtesy of MTV In 1992, the average rent for a Manhattan one-bedroom apartment was $1,475, and the last remaining Automat had just recently closed. Between that February and May, seven 20-somethings and one 19-year-old, all strangers until then, lived together in a Soho loft with a camera crew — and when The Real World debuted on MTV later that spring, the reality-casting industry was born.
Done up anew for Homecoming, the loft has familiar Real World touches: black couches with red pillows in the living room, the requisite pool table, and a fish tank . Compared with the original decorating, it looks far more like the multimillion-dollar home it has become, and everything is just all-around nicer with what seems like a fittingly middle-aged furniture budget, rather than the postcollegiate Ikea feel of the original show.
Bedroom, 2021 Photo: Courtesy of MTV Bedroom, 1992 Photo: MTV Vault/YouTube “They’re older — they’re adults,” McGowan said of the cast. “They want a little more comfort. So the team pulled the same color schemes from the original show and had new custom furniture built, including headboards and couches. There are now even duvet covers and pillowcases, instead of the bare mattresses the cast found upon arriving in 1992 — though two or three twin beds are still crammed into each bedroom.
Didn’t they do this multiple times already? 😂
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