Custom Bed Headboards for Dabolim.

In Dabolim the bed wall is often an outer wall with a large window beside it, high above the plateau, and that shapes the headboard. Morning or afternoon sun falling across it fades ordinary cloth in a band, so a fade-resistant fabric or leatherette is the sensible cover. Deep button tufting is best avoided, since each dimple fills with the red dust that blows in before the rains; flat panels or shallow channels wipe clean. A wall-fixed board saves floor depth in an apartment bedroom. A thickly padded one also takes a little echo out of the room, which light sleepers on shift patterns may notice, though it will not shut out aircraft.

• Apartment bedrooms: a wall-mounted panelled headboard the width of the bed, in a smooth cover that a damp cloth cleans.
• Bed walls beside large sunny windows: fade-resistant fabric or leatherette, so the half nearest the glass does not lighten.
• Flats let furnished: a plain rectangular board in leatherette, simple to wipe between tenants and easy to re-cover later.