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JENNIFER MCGEE: I arrived and saw the before space.
The first thing that came to mind was I wanted it to be
architectural.
I wanted to use it for multifunctional seating area,
and to bring light into the space.
I put in mirrors that went straight across one wall, and
balanced it by the symmetry of the two highboys next to them.
It created the focal point that the room
really didn't have.
It was lacking something that we walked in,
and that wow moment.
When we first saw the room, I really felt that for the scale
of the room, that the casings and the moldings didn't really
give it that grandeur.
What we did was we built up the
baseboards, made those higher.
The ceiling heights were high, they were nine feet.
And I built all the casings up and built the dog ears.
So that was all customized, as well as putting a picture rail
so that our artwork could be hung there.
The one main point that I really felt was so important
was this focal point and view.
A lot of dining rooms have fireplaces or a focal point.
This room did not.
The mirrors added the light and the elegance and glamour
that I thought the room needed.
So instead of just doing the typical one mirror over a
console, I made it as if it were an art object and did a
collage of four separate mirrors.
And of course, having art be such a big part of the room, I
wanted to install that gorgeous oil over the mirrors
themselves.
I think that people, when they think of a dining space, they
talk about what's the dining room table look like?
What's my seating?
But what I wanted to have people envision is that we can
have two different spaces.
You can create conversational areas within it.
Here at the front is where you'd display your art and
your finer things.
The corner reflects where you sit and you dine.
There's many purposes and functions
for this dining room.
It's not just about the formal dining room, because that's
not really how people are living today.
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