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Ivanka Trump has no problem admitting she’s made some mistakes as a first time parent, especially when discussing her decorating choices for the 10-room Manhattan apartment she shares with husband Jared Kushner and 13-month-old daughter Arabella Rose.
“As impractical as it is, what I wanted for my first baby was a simple, all-white nursery,” she explains in the October 2012 issue of Elle Decor.
“Then I started reading books that said babies need color for stimulation, and I was horrified. Within a month, I ‘d hung one of those ugly colored mobiles off the crib.”
Despite the color misstep, Trump succeeded in creating a “modern warm” baby room with sweet, personal touches (an “A” monogrammed pillow on a Restoration Hardware Baby & Child camelback swivel chair, a braided wool basket full of stuffed animals and a low hanging chandelier).
When the new mom isn’t hanging in her “favorite room,” you’ll find her whipping up culinary delights in the family’s “gleaming, high tech” kitchen.
“I didn’t cook at all until I was married,” admits Trump. “Three years ago, I couldn’t boil an egg, and now I’m curing my own duck prosciutto. I even impressed myself.”
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