We've gone back into the archives for these home decor tips from Dorothy Draper, Good Housekeeping's design director in the ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." What is it about color that makes us so happy? Perhaps the feeling is awakened the moment we first ...

When I rented my first Washington apartment in 1976, I hadn't a clue who Dorothy Draper was. But it turned out that the bold green, black and white lobby and exotic banana-leaf paper hallways at the ...

Dorothy Draper led a life nearly as colorful as the rooms she created. Born in 1889 into a blue-blood New England family at the height of the Gilded Age, she was among the first children to be raised ...

Palm Beach resident Carleton Varney, the internationally known interior designer who owned Dorothy Draper & Co. and whose “Your Family Decorator” column appeared for more than 40 years in the Palm ...

‘She didn’t like anything minuscule,’ said Dorothy Draper’s former business partner Carleton Varney. This chandelier is proof of that at an exhibit devoted to her designs at the Museum of Art in Fort ...