What this translates to is large architectural gestures that convey wealth-vaulted ceilings in the kitchen and the living room, a "wine room" with built-in bookshelves that meet the ceiling, and other flourishes that speak to the vast amounts of money this couple must have to maintain their bonus home. It’s in this space that the McGees define their aesthetic vision-"upscale Napa farmhouse," Shea says, which sounds more like a marketing term than an actual design choice.
Liz and Neil have three children and are unfathomably wealthy, though what they do is never mentioned. The clients in question are repeat customers the McGees worked on their Park City home, and have been tapped to lend their magic touch to their second home in Southern California, which appears to be just as big as the first. Nowhere is this more evident than in the home of Liz and Neil, the couple featured in the third episode of Netflix’s Dream Home Makeover, which is now in its third season. When viewed in aggregate, the aesthetic is unsatisfactory mostly in that it is unremarkable, especially in the kind of interiors the McGees often work with-massive new builds, where the entire house is a blank canvas, ready to be designed in Shea’s exacting aesthetic vision. The McGees favor ceramics, rough-hewn wood, and have never met a sheepskin rug they didn’t like. The ceilings are often white, adorned with reclaimed wood beams, and if the space allows, vaulted.
Color is off limits, unless it’s dark gray, black, or, on occasion, a deep, deep navy or evergreen. Shea McGee, the brains behind the operation, who infamously started her company after gaining a following posting her first home’s remodel on Instagram, favors varying shades of white, accented with neutrals and natural materials. Much like pornography, you know a Studio McGee interior when you see it. Welcome to Home Watching, a column about the wild and wooly world of renovation television from a self-proclaimed expert in the genre.
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