Shea and Syd McGee are two of the busiest names in interior design — and are still figuring how to juggle every aspect of their packed lives.
The couple star in the third season of their hit Netflix seriesDream Home Makeover, which launched July 27 on the streaming platform, while also balancing their three children and their ever-expanding design firm Studio McGee.
But as Shea, 37, tells PEOPLE, “It’s always a dance” making time for themselves amid their growing family and bustling business. “I think we realized that, for us, it’s not about an even split of time every single day,” she admits. “There are times when filming is a long day and then, come weekend, we are going to go somewhere really fun with the kids and we are putting those phones down and we are focusing on that.”
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The Utah-based pair are parents to daughters Wren, 9, Ivy, 6, and Margot, 12 months. Shea notes that “family is so important to us” and they were ready to take on the responsibility of a third child while filming the most recent episodes ofDream Home Makeover.
“On one hand it’s busier, but this wasn’t our first rodeo,” Shea says. “We were not in that ‘first parent mode’ where we were stressed about everything, and so that was nice to have that. Like, ‘I think we can do this. I think we know how to do this.'”
Syd, 37, interjects, “It definitely felt like we could do it after she stopped waking up like three or four times a night.” As the pair point out, having a five-year age gap between their younger daughters helped the situation. “We can say, ‘Hey, go play in the backyard,’ and it helps a lot to just have them be a little bit more independent,” says Shea.
Together the pair turned Shea’s passion into a design empire and Studio McGee was born. They launched the Netflix series in 2020 and “still kind of can’t believe” their immense success. “I think we’re still kind of shocked that we had a season one and so to be at season three… it’s amazing,” exclaims Shea.
“Sometimes we joke, like, ‘Do people really know who we are? Do they watch our show? I don’t know,'” Syd says with a laugh. “Then we’ll be at the grocery store and someone will be putting things in their cart and just staring… It’s really fun to meet people and just be like, ‘Hey, we watch your show and this happened,’ or ‘We did this at our house because of you guys.'”
“We love hearing when people come up to us and they’re like, ‘We watched this episode and we saw that you did this, and so we did this in our homes.’ That is the best compliment to me,” Shea adds.
source: people.com
