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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Hannah Ziegler

Shea McGee's simple styling tip for a home bar blends form and function – here's how she effortlessly uses serveware as decor

Shea McGee.

Spaces you serve in – kitchens, dining rooms, home bars – of course, need to work hard. Before all else, they need to be practical spaces that make it easy for both hosts and guests to move around and enjoy. But that doesn't mean these spaces need to miss out on aesthetics. The key, as designer Shea McGee recently pointed out in one of her recent projects, is to double your serveware as decor. Get useful, but beautiful things out on show and use them to create vignettes, rather than bringing in pieces that look nice but have no purpose.

The designer behind McGee & Co. recently took to Instagram to share the home bar area of a recently completed project and talked us through how she used everyday, items to decorate the space.

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