''The Apartment'' is a reality television show created by Riaz Mehta and produced by Imagine Group. Premiering in 2011 on
Star World
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, it is currently the longest running reality competition television show in Asia. From season 2, it is presented by
Jamie Durie
Jamie Paul Durie OAM (born 3 June 1970) is an Australian horticulturalist and landscape designer, furniture designer, television host, television producer, and author of eleven books on landscape architecture, garden design and lifestyle. He is ...
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Kahi Lee
Kahi Lee (born 30 December 1979) is an interior designer and television host. She was born in Washington, DC to Koreans, Korean parents and raised in Palos Verdes Estates, California.
Kahi has appeared as an interior design expert antelevision ho ...
hosted the inaugural season), while the judges include
Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen
Laurence Roderick Llewelyn-Bowen (; born 11 March 1965) is an English interior designer and television personality best known for appearing on the BBC programme '' Changing Rooms''.
Name
He is sometimes credited as "Laurence Llewelyn", and th ...
and
Genevieve Gorder
Genevieve Gorder (born July 26, 1974) is an American television host and interior designer. She hosted Bravo's ''Best Room Wins''. Previously, she hosted '' Stay Here'' on Netflix, ''Genevieve's Renovation'', "White House Christmas," and ''Dear Gen ...
among others.
The show sees contestants design and decorate a room each week in order to compete for the series end prize of a luxury apartment in
Kuala Lumpur
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. The fourth season was a celebrity version where the prize was $100,000 to be donated to their chosen charity. The fifth season had the prize of $100,000 for the winners. The sixth season, '' The Apartment - Passion For Design'' had twelve interior designers competing for a luxury apartment at
Johor Bahru
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,
Malaysia
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. With the sixth series an online digital series, ''The Apartment Unboxed'', was launched alongside the main show and included additional content.
Judges
Season
International versions
Indonesian version
An Indonesian version of ''The Apartment'' (also known as ''Master Desain Apartemen'') airs on
MNCTV
MNCTV (legally PT MNC Televisi Indonesia,GTV (for season 2). The first episode of the show premiered on September 3, 2017 and each episode is broadcast every Sunday, at 16:00 WIB (Western Indonesian Time). The show is hosted by Fenita Arie who gives the challenge and a panel including Matthew Munesh and Cosmas Gozali judge their work. The final winners were announced after the last episode, and the prize was their own apartment in The Ayodhya,
Alam Sutera
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, in
Tangerang
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. The first season winner is musician Alexis Brille.