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Beach/House, Fall 2024

Shadows lengthen. The crowds are gone. The weather is at its most glorious. Autumn arrives and cozy season begins on the Outer Cape. It’s the time of year when people here head back indoors to tackle some of the household projects that were impossible to even think about during summer’s hubbub. Evenings that were spent dining outdoors are now savored in front of a fire. In this special edition of the Provincetown Independent's home, garden, and design pages, we’re easing our way into the fall projects that come before the year-end holidays and the promise of the new year ahead.

Shadows lengthen. The crowds are gone. The weather is at its most glorious. Autumn arrives and cozy season begins on the Outer Cape. It’s the time of year when people here head back indoors to tackle some of the household projects that were impossible to even think about during summer’s hubbub. Evenings that were spent dining outdoors are now savored in front of a fire. In this special edition of the Provincetown Independent's home, garden, and design pages, we’re easing our way into the fall projects that come before the year-end holidays and the promise of the new year ahead.

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Provincetown Independent | BEACH / HOUSE | <strong>Fall</strong> <strong>2024</strong> | 17<br />

Chrome yellow Formica provides a warm glow in the kitchen.<br />

Beveled edges allow Moses’s drawers to be<br />

opened without hardware.<br />

ished in Wellfleet, plywood is the<br />

primary material for cabinets, drawers,<br />

and surfaces, and although the<br />

effect is decidedly unpretentious, the<br />

project is executed with a degree of<br />

finish and skill more virtuosic than<br />

punk.<br />

Moses points out a bank of drawers<br />

under large windows. For the face<br />

of the drawers, he worked with two<br />

sheets of four- by- eight plywood,<br />

working to align the grain from<br />

drawer to drawer. A quarter- inch reveal<br />

separates the drawers — “a clean<br />

black line, a shadow gap,” says Moses.<br />

The drawers are beveled on the<br />

inside so they can be opened without<br />

any knobs, a detail that adds to the<br />

room’s minimalist aesthetic.<br />

Moses worked closely with architect<br />

Anthony Lee on the kitchen,<br />

which overlooks Fox Island Marsh<br />

on Wellfleet’s bayside. “Anthony<br />

had good drawings with a ton of detail,”<br />

says Moses. “It’s a super clean<br />

design. This is the kind of work that I<br />

like to do.”<br />

Lee and homeowners Ira Ziering<br />

and Godeleine de Rosamel chose<br />

sunny yellow Formica to cover the<br />

surface of the oversize, panel- ready<br />

refrigerator and a few other surfaces<br />

in the kitchen. The yellow along with<br />

the warm color of the plywood provide<br />

a radiant glow to the kitchen, especially<br />

during the late afternoon.<br />

Ziering purchased the house in<br />

1995 from Rodney Winfield, an artist<br />

who built it in the early 1970s in the<br />

style of Cape Cod’s modern houses.<br />

Winfield based its airy design on a<br />

few local houses he admired, pulling<br />

their plans at the town’s building department<br />

before getting to work. In<br />

2011, the house underwent a significant<br />

upgrade. McMahon, who is also<br />

an architect, drew the plans, and Nate<br />

Cook did the construction.<br />

The original house was built on<br />

a tight budget. “You couldn’t come<br />

when it was cold, the windows didn’t<br />

shut, it was termite- infested and<br />

damp,” says Ziering. “But it was<br />

beautiful. The renovations significantly<br />

improved the quality of the<br />

house, but Ziering was intentional<br />

about preserving the unpretentious,<br />

simple aesthetic and not using “any<br />

nicer- than- needed materials.” One<br />

of the features that remained were<br />

the plywood floors.<br />

“The old house had plywood<br />

floors because of economy,” says<br />

Ziering. “We wanted the floors to pay<br />

tribute to the original house.” The<br />

new floor is composed of sheets of<br />

four- by- eight plywood nailed down<br />

and painted a subtle beige.<br />

“The floor gets stained and<br />

scuffed up and scratched,” he says.<br />

“But we don’t have to worry about it.<br />

It makes it more beach house- y.”<br />

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property. Please call for a private appointment.<br />

Ashley Fawkes<br />

Broker Associate<br />

ashley.fawkes@compass.com<br />

508.237.1986<br />

Compass is a licensed real estate broker and Kinlin Grover Realty Group, LLC is a licensed real estate broker<br />

affiliated with Compass and each abides by Equal Housing Opportunity laws. All material presented herein is<br />

intended for informational purposes only. Information is compiled from sources deemed reliable but is subject to<br />

errors, omissions, changes in price, condition, sale, or withdrawal without notice. Photos may be virtually staged<br />

or digitally enhanced and may not reflect actual property conditions.

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