Custom Curtains for Bambolim Homes

Wind across the plateau and the highway that runs through it both work against a curtain in Bambolim. In flats let to doctors, students and hospital staff, the practical choice is a curtain on a rod, which comes down easily and goes up again in the next flat. Give it a weighted hem, because an open window up here makes light fabric fly. On the highway side, a dense weave with a lining softens the traffic noise a little and takes a vacuum nozzle without being unhooked. Villas over the bay need a different answer: wide glazing that faces afternoon sun off the water calls for a lined curtain on a ceiling track fixed into the slab.

• Rented flats near the Goa Medical College: eyelet curtains on a rod with blackout lining, so night-duty staff sleep by day and the curtains move with them.
• Villas facing the Zuari bay: sheers plus lined curtains on a ceiling track anchored in the slab, motorised where the glazing is too wide to pull.
• Bedrooms on the highway side: a weighty, dense curtain, and in front of it a sheer that takes the road dust and goes in the wash.