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Provincetown Independent | BEACH / HOUSE | Fall 2024 | 15 Thomas Moses works in his North Truro shop. (Photos by Agata Storer) A Craftsman Finds the Power of Punk in Plywood Thomas Moses builds his own riffs on Cape Cod modern design By Abraham Storer When the Cape Cod Modern House Trust was a fledgling organization, Thomas Moses signed up to advance its mission to restore the Outer Cape’s modern houses, many of which were in the Cape Cod National Seashore and falling into disrepair. Moses had met the trust’s founding director, Peter McMahon, in 2007 through a mutual friend and, captivated by the history of the modern houses, began commuting from his home in Belmont to barter his carpentry skills for the opportunity to occasionally stay in one of the houses with his wife, Milisa Moses. In 2014, Thomas came to Wellfleet to work for two weeks on the Weidlinger house, renovating it during the day and camping out in it at night. After a construction crew had to move on to another job, a tree fell on the roof, and Moses’s commitment to the project deepened. His two- week sojourn to the Cape has now turned into a decade. While working on the Weidlinger house, Moses spent his nights looking for real estate. At the time, a small house in Eastham could be had for a realistic price, he says. He moved out of the job site and Milisa joined him. For a time, Moses worked for and was mentored by craftsman and builder Cregg Sweeney of Orleans. In 2020, he formed his own company, Dunehaus, where he merges his carpentry skills with a love for modern design. Many of the projects that Moses works on today pay homage to the history of modern architecture on the Outer Cape. Like many carpenters, he does things like interior trim and casework, cabinetry, built- ins, and restoration. But he’s more likely to be using plywood than more traditional materials. “I don’t do crown molding,” he says. Outer Cape style, he says, is above all about simplicity. In his shop at Tradesmen’s Park in North Truro, Moses points out a few samples of his favorite material: birch plywood. Whereas plywood is commonly used as a support material under flooring or in walls, Moses uses it as a finish material. On his projects, it’s usually the star of the show. Behind his workbench, he stores his materials and tools in two of his creations: a long floating plywood box bolted to the wall and a plywood desk accented with yellow and gray Formica laminate. Moses chooses high- quality prefinished plywood and typically leaves the edges of the plywood exposed rather than covering it with trim. The effect is clean, unfussy, elegant, and utilitarian. In Moses’s Eastham home, another of his floating boxes runs the length of a wall. Also constructed with ¾- inch plywood and featuring exposed edges, this box hangs under a bay window and hovers about a foot off the ground. Its height and width are both about 14 inches, making it unobtrusive, but its length provides continued on page 16 At a house in Wellfleet, undercounter windows offer peeks of the pitch pines outside the kitchen.
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