I founded Proper after 30 years of running my branding and digital agency, Ranch Design. Throughout my life, I've been drawn to objects with history and character. As a child, I'd accompany my mother to local shops, boldly asking if I could take their enamel advertising signs from building exteriors—sometimes successfully!

The challenge for an obsessive collector like myself has always been: what to do with it all?

Buying and selling became the perfect solution. I experience the thrill of discovery, enjoy researching each item's history, and showcase its true potential through photography before sending these pieces off to begin new lives in homes that appreciate them.

While I have well-known brands and designers, I take particular pleasure in recognizing potential in less obvious and less expensive pieces. I have become something of a standard-bearer for Formica laminate!

I'm genuinely passionate about every item I sell at Proper. I hope you'll find pieces that resonate with you as much as they do with me.

Paul Jenkins Founder / Sourcer / Photographer / Renovator / Salesman