Wall or bedstead: where a Bambolim headboard gets attached depends on who owns the flat. Tenants around the medical college do better with one that bolts onto the bedstead: no holes in the landlord's wall, and it travels with the bed. Owners can hang a wall-mounted panel, which leaves a small bedroom a little more floor and can extend past the bed to carry a shelf each side. Bedrooms here are bright, and where the bed wall catches direct sun, the cover should be one that does not fade. In the villas, a full-wall headboard with reading lights is worth planning with the electrician. By the highway, a smooth cover wipes clean; deep buttoning gathers dust.
- Rented one-bedroom flats: a plain panelled headboard fixed to the bed, in a wipeable leatherette, ready to move with the furniture.
- Villa master bedrooms facing the bay: a wide wall-hung headboard in fade-resistant fabric, with the switches and plug points let into its face.
- Family flats, in the children's rooms: a low wall-mounted board in a tight weave, vacuumed along with the rest of the upholstery.
Bambolim lies on the plateau and hillside south of Panjim, above the Zuari bay. It is known for the Goa Medical College and its hospital, and has the military camp, a beach resort on the bay, and many newer apartment complexes and villas.
Bambolim housing ranges from flats for doctors, students and hospital staff to upmarket complexes and villas looking over the bay. Rented flats change hands often.
The plateau is exposed to wind, and the bay side gets salt air and afternoon sun over the water. The highway runs through, with noise and dust.