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2 | Provincetown Independent | BEACH / HOUSE | Fall 2024 A N A R T I S T O W N E D S H O P I N T H E H E A R T O F W E L L F L E E T L O C A L A R T • C E R A M I C S • T E X T I L E S • J E W E L R Y 3 1 3 M A I N S T , U N I T # 5 , W E L L F L E E T , M A @ S H O P I S A B E L S O U Z A • I S A B E L S O U Z A S T U D I O @ G M A I L . C O M 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 issue, we’re easing our way into the fall projects that come before the year-end holidays and the promise of the new year ahead. Guest editor: Stephen Orr Contributors: Hannah Oakland, Kai Potter, Dorothea Samaha, Abraham Storer, Agata Storer Design: Susan Abbott Sales team: Cooper Joseph, Hannah Oakland, and Martine Taylor Escape the garden for the wilds. ON THE COVER: The compact top-floor den of Ryan Stanton and Robbie Goldstein’s East End condo is enveloped by Rutland wallpaper by Cowtan & Tout and features storage built-ins and views over the rooftops to the bay. Framed Cynthia Packard sketches pay homage to the Packard Gallery next door. (Photo by Sean Litchfield; styling by Sean Donovan; cover design by Chris Kelly) Outer Cape Cod in the quiet season By Kai Potter shop.provincetownindenpendent.org
Provincetown Independent | BEACH / HOUSE | Fall 2024 | 3 Upstairs, Downstairs Going big on design gives a small house room for entertaining and for retreat Reclaimed-wood cabinets contain dishes, serveware, and a pantry in the kitchen and dining area on the main floor. The cabinets are painted in semi-gloss Green Smoke by Farrow & Ball. Ryan Stanton recovered the antique couch in a white Pierre Frey boucle. “Everyone thinks that I’m insane for using it as a dining sofa,” he says. “So far, there’s only been one candle wax incident but that’s been hidden by a pillow.” (Photos by Sean Litchfield; styling by Sean Donovan) By Stephen Orr Provincetown is a high-density town. Case in point, what once was a small home in the East End with two buildings on a narrow lot recently became three condos squeezed into the previous buildings’ footprints. There was no room for the builder to go out for the 2021 down- to- the- studs new build, so he went up, doubling the one- and- a- half stories to three on the rear unit. For Ryan Stanton and Robbie Goldstein, prospective buyers, it definitely wasn’t love at first sight. The vertical stack of rooms joined by narrow staircases posed both design and practical problems that the couple, who also live in Boston, felt they would not be able to overcome. “We looked at the property when it was about 60 percent done,” says Stanton. “I think a lot of other potential buyers struggled to figure out how to utilize the space,” which is only 720 square feet, just 240 square feet per floor. Stanton, who has his own interior design company, Stanton Schwartz Design Group, was ready to move on with the search when Goldstein, the commissioner of the Mass. Dept. of Public Health, came up with the idea to rethink the floor plan and change the two- bedroom unit into a onebedroom, freeing up a top floor aerie that’s now a secondary living area. “For me, that space was the reason we bought the house,” Goldstein says. “It has everything I want for a place in P’town. You can see out over the town and the sea.” Once the layout was resolved, the couple asked the contractor to stop speccing the remaining materials and fixtures so they could personalize the project as it was being finished. “It was basically just white walls and subflooring, so I was able to get my hands on all of the paint colors, the marble, the hardware, the bathroom fixtures, the vanities, and all of those types of details,” says Stanton. “I had the chance to layer in our own flavor. It was, quite honestly, an interior designer’s dream come true to be able to get in early.” Much of the house’s sophisticated color scheme is inspired by a certain piece of stone that Stanton had tucked into his memory. “Two years before we bought the house, I went countertop shopping with a client and fell in love with the Italian marble that you see throughout the house,” he says. “I found it completely mesmerizing from the instant I saw it.” Finally able to use it, he deployed it liberally in the kitchen counters and backsplash, the upstairs bathroom, the third- floor built- ins, and even a little remnant on the outdoor patio. Its rich palette of dark greens, pinks, and blacks in wave- shaped patterns inspired the fabric and paint palette that knits together the entire house in ways not normally seen at a beach continued on page 4 Robbie Goldstein, left, and Ryan Stanton stand in front of their house. An outdoor entertaining area accommodates dinner guests on the front porch. (Photo by Stephen Orr)
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