Custom Bed Headboards for Ribandar.

Bedrooms in Ribandar's old houses tend to have one wall that is never quite dry, the one nearest the river, and a bed placed against it needs some care. A thick padded headboard pushed tight to that wall will smell musty before the monsoon is over. Hang the board on spacers so air passes behind, or fix it to the bed and pull the bed a little forward. Leatherette or a tight synthetic weave wipes down and does not take up moisture the way velvet does. Where a house has kept its carved wooden bed, have a padded panel made to sit inside the existing frame, so the woodwork stays untouched.

• Old carved beds: an upholstered panel cut to fit within the frame and held by it, leaving the carving exactly as found.
• Bedrooms on the river side: a wall-hung panelled headboard on spacers, in leatherette that can be wiped when the air turns heavy.
• Compact bedrooms in the hill flats: a wall-mounted board slightly wider than the bed, saving the depth a bed-fixed one would take.