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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.
Any new construction project comes with the usual set of challenges; among them are delays, fluctuating costs, budget issues, labor shortages, acquiring permits, and the endless decisions that must be made by all the parties involved—just to name a few. The Pratt family was decidedly ready to tackle these in order to build their dream home but what they weren’t ready for was something that would multiply these challenges two-fold: a pandemic. “I wouldn’t recommend it going forward!” homeowner Claire Pratt can say now with a chuckle.
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When Jessica Schwartz and Ryan Stanton got involved with a three-story new build in a city across Boston’s Charles River, it pushed the designers squarely out of their comfort zone. “The clients wanted to bring a worldliness into the home through the layering of texture, pattern, and color—not New England color,” explains Jessica, one half of Stanton Schwartz Design Group. “We went back to the drawing board to up the saturation.”
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Ryan Stanton and Jessica Schwartz of Boston-based Stanton Schwartz Design Group dreamed up a sophisticated home office replete with marble finishes and plush textiles.
It’s rare that you find clients who want their home to so closely reflect the family’s character. A young household with three kids, they are playful and cool. So when it came time to design the millwork, choose the color of the flooring, and furnish the home, they were willing to take risks, break out of the “norm,” and really make it their own.
