Trump Jr. Living at Riverside Blvd with Model Wife

[NYPost] 8/31/06
The Trumps live in a 1,550-square-foot apartment - at Trump Place, natch - on the Upper West Side's Riverside Boulevard. It has parquet floors and river views that, Don says, are peaceful and unusual in such an urban setting.

"We don't see any brick walls, and the sun sets in the center of this window," says Don, referring to the living room, just off the open kitchen and dining area.

The apartment is filled with photos of the young couple and their families, including Don's youngest sibling, baby Baron Trump, and lots of noise from their Havanese dogs, Fraggle and Faluffa.

"After a long day, I love to come home and play with these little dogs. They both have a big-dog personality," Don says from one of the comfy brown leather couches in the living room.
"They were from Don's bachelor days," Vanessa says of the sofas.
There's also a big-screen TV and an antique cabinet from Afghanistan that was one of the first purchases the Trumps made as a couple.
As for the rest of Don's old stuff: "She's fighting to get the remnants of the bachelor pad out," he says.

"It's not so bad," adds Vanessa. "We have similar tastes, which helps."
Don describes the apartment as "not too contemporary and a little eclectic," with walls painted sky blue and deep red.
The bedroom and the guest room/den, with its zebra print rug and white antique desk, have oil paintings by Vanessa's Danish grandfather, as well as photos and all sorts of objects lovingly saved from both of their childhoods.
Vanessa has a teddy bear she's kept since she was 6 months old. ("I sewed it up a few times," she says.) And Don has "Captain Pickle," a doll from his own childhood.
"We're nostalgic pack rats," Don says. "We don't get rid of anything."
"We're normal," adds Vanessa.

Their antique canopy bed was something Vanessa's mom had for about 20 years.
Other favorite items include a still-empty engraved Asprey photo album Don bought for pictures of their wedding, which was held last November in Palm Beach.
"If there was a fire - and there wouldn't be because this is a Trump building - all I'd take are my photo albums," Don says.

There's also his fly-fishing collection - a painstakingly intense, colorful, neatly pinned arrangement.

And, of course, there's the kitchen. The Trumps knocked out the walls to create an open space. Don usually cooks while Vanessa does the "prep work and clean-up," he explains.
Don began to cook when he was "in the single digits - 8 or 9 years old," after watching chefs at Mar-a-Lago prepare food for his family.

"I learned at a young age and was into it," he says, adding that he loves to cook "Italian stuff, seafood, curries, pretty much everything."

Although the couple have been in the apartment about two and a half years, it's still in the midst of being decorated. That is really in Vanessa's hands, says Don.
"I spend more time at the office than I do here," he says.

The Trumps also have a three-bedroom home in Bedford, where they go most weekends. The upscale area is far more sedate than the Hamptons, which Don says he enjoyed more when he was younger.

"It's not really appealing to me to sit in four hours of traffic, though Vanessa loves it and goes to visit her sister there," Don says. "I prefer it in October, to fish in Montauk. It's really pleasant then."

Both, however, also just love being in their city apartment.
"We'll stay here until we have two children, then we'll move," Vanessa says - adding that she hopes to have five.