04 JUNE 2026 — DESIGN
Oxford Road Estate: A First Look
For all its scale and architectural ambition, Oxford Road Estate was ultimately designed around family. Created from the inside out, the home reflects the rhythms, traditions, and everyday moments of the people who live there, with spaces thoughtfully designed for gathering, celebrating, and living well. The result is a home that feels deeply personal and enduring, built to hold a lifetime of memories.
Three years ago, our clients brought a team together to shape a home from the ground up—a sprawling estate set into the foothills of Provo, Utah. Before there were even drawings on paper, Studio McGee was a foundational piece of that team, designing in close collaboration with Broadbent Architectural Studio, McEwan Custom Homes, and Northland Design.
The result is Oxford Road Estate: a multi-structure home anchored by a classic European aesthetic, layered with deeply personal storytelling, and held to a single conviction—we wanted to design a home that feels like it’s been there for many years—not a house pretending to be old, but one that earned the feeling through storied materials and pieces.
The design unfolds across Main Residence, Game Barn, Pool House, and beyond. Every structure on the grounds was held to the same architectural standard. Nothing here is secondary.
The Entry Hall
The thesis is stated in the Entry Hall. Reclaimed patrimoine limestone—quarried, walked on, and worn in long before it arrived to us—is laid in a classical checkerboard with charcoal cabochon insets. A hand-troweled plaster barrel vault sweeps the ceiling. A neo-classical alabaster pendant softens the light. Raised paneling, marble baseboards, and a solid limestone first step do work you aren’t necessarily meant to notice, but they create the framework for everything else. They are the bones of the space.
"I wanted you to walk in and feel like you'd arrived somewhere with history. Not a house pretending to be old—a house that earned it."
Shea McGee
IMAGE BY: AMY NEUNSINGER
The Great Room
For all the depth of the design, this is a family home. The Great Room comfortably seats nine on a Tuesday and a houseful on a Saturday without rearranging a single chair. A 14-foot built-in with a working rolling ladder grounds one wall. A Steinway grand piano sits ready for family sing-alongs. An inglenook fireplace forms the threshold between interior and terrace, so the room doesn't really end where you'd expect it to. An 18th-century French verdure Aubusson tapestry, hand-woven in wool and silk, conceals a television on a Roman mechanism, marking the point where the architecture of the home and its daily life intersect.
IMAGE BY: AMY NEUNSINGER
The Chef's Kitchen
In the kitchen—intentionally not enormous, scaled for a family that loves to cook—custom-stained oak cabinetry carries a mix of knobs, drop pulls, latches, and mesh grills. The kind of hardware story you would find in a kitchen that has been added to over generations. The paneled marble backsplash and custom hood echo the Great Room's inglenook.
"That's the whole game for me—making sure the architecture talks to itself from one room to the next."
Shea McGee
IMAGE BY: AMY NEUNSINGER
The Scullery
At Oxford Road, storytelling is woven into the architecture itself, not layered on after the fact. The Scullery is a quiet tribute to the family's love of the Netherlands with hand-painted Delft-inspired tile and mixed marble flooring. Homeowner Jason commissioned a portrait of his wife Whitney’s grandmother, “Grammie,” as a surprise, making it one of the home’s most personal and meaningful details.
The Formal Dining Room
The Dining Room was conceived as a pavilion set gently over water and later embraced within the home's traditional architecture. Bluestone floors in an ashlar pattern ground the room to the landscape. A 14-foot-long barley-twist table commands the center, surrounded by custom tufted chairs in performance fabric. The marble fireplace draws from Belgian farmhouse precedents—restrained, simple, beautifully proportioned. On the walls, a hand-painted mural, by artist James Mobley, reflect the surrounding landscape.
IMAGE BY: DANIELLE KIRK
The Conservatory
The Conservatory was designed for both performance and practice, with every decision balancing architecture, acoustics, and beauty as part of the same conversation. Two Steinway pianos sit at the center, each lit by a burnished brass picture light. Pierre Frey's Chantonnay paper carries across the walls and ceiling, giving the room an enveloping, almost theatrical quality. The design narrative is built around 15 songs that mean something to the family. Not a playlist. A story.
CANOPY SUITE & ENSUITE IMAGES BY: AMY NEUNSINGER
The Canopy Suite & Ensuite
The Canopy Suite, the primary retreat for Jason and Whitney, was designed to feel like an exhale. The architectural language of the Entry Hall returns here in raised paneling, hand-troweled plaster, and a quiet repetition of creamy tones. A limestone fireplace with a subtle curvature anchors the room. Above it, a commissioned painting by a Danish artist lends the space its emotional center. A custom bronze four-poster bed, draped in linen, softens the room’s architectural volume, while antique brass sconces and a chandelier with hand-forged leaf detailing add warmth and patina. Steel-framed doors open to a private courtyard with a water feature and hot tub, so the room does not really end inside.
"The first room of the house and the most private room of the house are quietly speaking to each other. That kind of continuity is the thing I'm always chasing."
Shea McGee
The Canopy Ensuite speaks the same architectural language. The bath is designed around a single moment—a tub carved from one solid block of Calacatta Gold marble. It sits at the center of the room beneath an alabaster bowl pendant, a parallel to the fixture in the Entry Hall. Paneled Calacatta Gold shower walls. Tumbled limestone flooring. Stepped mid-tone oak vanities with chamfered legs, marble countertops, and swan-neck brass sconces. The most private room in the house, and the first room of the house, quietly speaking to each other.
CHILDREN'S ROOMS IMAGES BY: DANIELLE KIRK & AMY NEUNSINGER
The Library Hall & Children's Rooms
Upstairs, the home opens into a sequence of spaces—not a corridor of bedrooms, but a wing that unfolds room by room. The architectural challenge was to hold eight bedrooms with ensuites alongside multiple play and library moments without the level reading as a maze. The solution was to thread the public space—the Girls' Lounge, the Boys' Lounge, the Library Hall—between the bedrooms as both connectors and destinations.
Each of the seven children's rooms shares the same architectural backbone—raised paneling, vaulted or softly angled ceilings, tailored window treatments. Personality emerges through what each room holds rather than how it is built. The Meadow Room layers pink plaster above crisp white paneling. The Garden Room wraps in chinoiserie mural panels of florals, branches, butterflies, and birds beneath a ceiling painted baby blue like the sky. The Tent Room playroom is fully tented in acrylic-backed fabric installed as wallpaper, three brass-netted pendants floating in the vault like hot air balloons. Inside, a play closet transforms into a miniature kitchen with a play range, marble countertops, hand-painted Delft tile that quietly references the Scullery downstairs.
IMAGE BY: AMY NEUNSINGER
The story continues...
Oxford Road unfolds in chapters. This is the first look. In the weeks ahead, we will be sharing room-by-room reveals, sourcing stories, and the design decisions that shaped each space—beginning with the Main Level and moving through the Primary Suite, the children's wing, the lower level, and the outdoor spaces. Follow along on the blog, Substack, and Instagram #OxfordRoadEstate as the home reveals itself.
IMAGE BY: AMY NEUNSINGER
