ProperlyMade Ltd

Private Lives
A fantastic play by the Royal Exchange Theatre
Design by

We make all kinds of pianos, but this one was special for many reasons. It was for the Royal Exchange where I started my career 17 years ago, it had to collapse on queue by way of electromagnets and be wheeled on and off stage between acts, and it was for a wonderful designer, whom, somehow I’ve never managed to build something for before.

Not only did we get to invited to see the show (rare occurrence these days) but Dick spent his time making something rather wonderful to thank us for our work on the piano (very rare) so thank you and I hope you don’t mind me sharing this 🙏 we won’t forget this one!

Tables for Bank Of Dave: The Musical
Designed by Amy Cook
Prop supervised by Zoë Wilson

We really loZoë Wilsony work for Zoe but these are some of my favourite looking tables in a while, and the whole process was a joy from start to finish 🫶

We make beds from time to time.
Designs by David Woodhead and Bunny Christie
Prop supervision by and Lily Mollgaard

Tables and benches made for PRIDE: the musical at the National Theatre
DesignedNational Theatreie
Prop superBunny Christiela Winter
Production 📸 Manuel Harlan

A huge portion of our year has been spent making props for our first job being multiple illusion ideas back in February. Throughout the year we’ve made various furniture and illusion pieces and of course I can’t share the illusion pictures, but here are some workshop shots of props we can share. Immensely proud to have been a part of this huge new West End show and hoping it has a very successful future! A huge thank you to Mary Halliday for getting us involved. Hopefully some nice production shots will emerge over the coming months 🤞

We ended 2022 with a few really exciting projects. One of those was the Disney musical. As well as the cart we made 8 Oak veneer tapered leg tables. Each with a hidden steel armature running down each leg. The tops were brushed aluminium, nailed onto a solid top. Thanks to for the fantastic photos and a huge thanks to for getting us involved. Looking forward to 2023 and all the projects it has in store.

We ended 2022 with a few really exciting projects. One of those was the Disney musical. As well as the cart we made 8 Oak veneer tapered leg tables. Each with a hidden steel armature running down each leg. The tops were brushed aluminium, nailed onto a solid top. Thanks to for the fantastic photos and a huge thanks to for getting us involved. Looking forward to 2023 and all the projects it has in store.

We are busy making a couple of pieces for an upcoming Propworks / Lizzie Props] show at the moment. Here is a lovely little furniture piece they sent our way a couple of months ago for a huge thank you as always to Lizzie Propworks / Lizzie Props] for sending such great work our way 🙌

A couple of lovely makes for a beautiful new show huge thanks as always to

Telephone Box with built in Air Rise Caster system built for Local Hero a huge thank you to designer for letting us build this for her. Pics 1&2 📸