Grace Elletson remembers walking into her grandmother’s house and noticing a new deep-blue chest in the hallway. She loved it immediately. “Where did that come from?” she asked. Her grandmother said that the chest had always been in the hallway but that Elletson’s mother had recently painted over the dark-brown wood.
“I noticed it when it was painted because it just lit the whole hallway,” Elletson said. “You use the modernity of paint to accentuate the vintage shape of it, which I love. So then I was like, ‘I love painted furniture … I want to paint furniture.'”
After moving to Vermont in 2019 for a reporter job at VTDigger.org,…
