NASHUA – For the faithful, Glorious Possibilities, now located at 100 Main St., is a trek to a favorite antique furniture, vintage and new homewares and gift store.

For the uninitiated, it means endless decorating possibilities.

Owners Gloria and Pete Henry have amassed a gorgeous collection of household items, ranging from pillows and art to furniture and reimagined clocks, designer gifts and homemade fixtures. Items have been repurposed or reupholstered, frames refurbished and they carry a wide selection of uber popular chalk paint.

Formerly located at 257 Main St., in the old Chandler Library building, their new locale suits the store in all its glory.

Making the move, Gloria Henry said, was sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic.

“I was looking to make some adjustments with my rent,” she said. “I pretty much decided that I wanted to keep the business and I didn’t want to become a victim of COVID.”

The Henry’s talked about their options while they were closed for two-and-a-half months during the shutdown, so they started to look at alternative locations.

“I kept passing by here,” she said of the storefront at 100 Main. “I was looking at smaller properties and decided on this location.”

Glorious Possibilities began at the former address in November 2013.

“The business has always been viable,” Gloria Henry said. “It usually takes about five years to show some form of a profit. And our biggest seller is the Annie Sloan chalk paint. I didn’t want to give up the chalk paint, so I said I need to find another location to sell it.”

Henry’s store has an exclusive, as the only one in southern New Hampshire that sells the chalk paint.

“I’ve been selling the paint for seven years now,” she said. “And it’s a driving factor. We get customers from north and central Massachusetts, from Lowell and Chelmsford. We even get people from Boston occasionally.”

Businesses come and go, Gloria Henry pointed out, but she’s been able to sustain the business with the chalk paint, which is made in England and exported to the U.S. During COVID, shipments have been trickier, but it makes its way to the Port of New Orleans and then Tennessee before it’s distributed around the country.

Henry currently has four vendors in the new store; previously, she’s had up to 18. But you’d never guess that, walking around the spacious showroom, with every corner and niche decorated so perfectly to ensure a seamless stream for the shopper’s eye.

“We try to integrate so there is continuity and smoothness in the layout,” she said. “But I’ve always admired this storefront. It’s the most visual storefront on Main Street. And I called and got it and we moved in.”

Everything in the front of the store belongs to Gloria Henry, and while the spaces are smaller, she makes the most of what goes up and what goes out in the shop.

Claire and John Edwards, of Blue Cottage Design, have a beautiful space at Glorious Possibilities.

“They bring a nice flair to the shop,” Henry said as she walked through their space.

“Claire has a good eye. John does a lot of the repurposing of the furniture. The waxing and the finish is so beautiful. Most of the time they use chalk paint. Most of the time they water it down to give it that Swedish look.”

Glorious Possibilities is filled to the brim with so many different colors and textures, and every finishing touch is completed by Gloria Henry, whose keen eye for detail is enraptures every shopper.

The shop also features work by local artists Marline Sawaf, Almerinda Silva and Gail Allen.

Henry said she’s thrilled that the move is over, and that patrons, new and old, have discovered her unveiling at the new location.

“I had a good following,” she said. “And they will follow me here. But I did have customers who didn’t even know what we were at the old location. It was typical Victorian farmhouse. And even though we had signage outside, people didn’t know. But this new location is definitely a retail storefront.”

Hours for the holiday have been expanded; they’re now open Wednesday through Sunday, open every day at 11 a.m.

“I think when you look at what else there is downtown, we’re the only true gift store with so much variety,” Gloria Henry said. “We offer a little more of the gift line, especially the chalk paint for repurposing all your furniture. We do have an infusion of nice antiques, and I will pick up a few pieces at estate sales and have them reupholstered at Mavrikis on Lake Street. That way you have some soft merchandise integrated with the case goods and wood furniture.”

When the cement barriers were up on Main Street, there was visibility for the storefront for outdoor diners. And with the barriers now removed, there is once again parking for folks who want to visit the store.

“I’d love to see a little more revitalization on Main Street,” Gloria Henry said. “The barriers may have been cumbersome, but they helped with the survival of the restaurants. So that was important. And there is a viable take-out business here downtown, and now there’s more parking.”

Henry talks about Hudson, New York, which has a vital and thriving downtown area.

“You know it?” she asks. “There are something like 60 antique shops downtown there. If we could just create some semblance of that on our Main Street, that would be nice. There’s a lot of potential here but I get it – a lot of people aren’t opening businesses right now.”

Before opening her shop, Gloria Henry worked in upper management for a database marketing company, crunching algorithms for major pharmaceutical companies around the world.

“It was tough work,” she said. “I left there and took a severance because the company kept getting bought out. One day you say, ‘I can’t do this anymore. There’s no joy.'”

Henry said she needed to be creative and achieve a look in design that made her happy. And Pete Henry is a retired Air Force colonel and mechanical engineer, PhD. Getting him to join his wife at their shop was never a chore.

“He’s a very detailed person,” she said. “He covers all the paint inventory, so I never have to worry about that. He takes care of the bookkeeping and everything.”

Local flair is also well represented at Glorious Possibilities, from locally made holiday cards, as well as coasters, pillows and signs bearing “Nashua.”

“I like incorporating unique items,” Gloria Henry said. “Folks have been shopping online during this time. But that’s why I couldn’t give up the business. People are still very tactile.”