MountaIn Living
Family Matters
David and Lynn Newton’s search for a second home was driven by one thing and one thing only: family. By JaCKIe LeaVITT
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passed away from melanoma in 1999. and with the 3,500-square-foot condo they bought in 2008, located in Warren at The farms development, there’s no better place for embracing and honoring family. While the home was already able to host large numbers of people thanks to three floors, four bedrooms (each with their own private bathroom), and two separate decks, Lynn and David wanted to open the interior up with a renovation that knocked down the kitchen’s walls to the dining and living rooms. David says the openness “is one of the best features,” allowing people to easily float from room to room for mingling – all while in plain view of Sugarbush, jutting upward across the valley, through the living room’s floor-to-ceiling windows.
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ne of David and Lynn newton’s priorities when looking for a second home in the mad river Valley was that it had to meet a kid’s standards – kind of an odd concern as the Boston couple doesn’t actually have any kids. “We’re very close with our nieces and nephews,” explains David. “We wanted the kids in our family to have a good hangout.” It wasn’t entirely dependent upon the kids, however. The couple (she’s a landscape architect; he’s a corporate bonds salesman) wanted a place where they could easily reconnect with the entire family under one roof. In fact, family was the reason the couple even first came to Sugarbush, visiting almost every weekend after David’s brother, Peter newton, a former Sugarbush ski patrol volunteer,