Custom Bed Headboards for Vagator.

Bedrooms on the Vagator plateau are turned to the west for the view, so a good deal of sun crosses the room in the afternoon and often lands on the bed wall. A headboard there should be in fade-resistant fabric or leatherette. Salt damp comes next: set the board a finger's width off any wall that faces the sea, and have the backing sealed on both sides. In boutique hotels and let villas, heads and hands mark the cover constantly, and a plain panelled shape in wipeable leatherette or a dense performance cloth is easy to clean and to re-cover. Avoid deep buttoning and pale colours, because the red dust lodges in both.

• Hotel rooms with sea-facing glass: flat panelled leatherette headboards in a mid-tone, wall-hung with an air gap behind.
• Main bedrooms of clifftop villas: a wide panelled headboard in fade-resistant fabric, placed on the wall that the afternoon sun reaches least.
• Smaller guest rooms on the plateau: a bed-mounted headboard, simple in outline, so a marked cover can be changed quickly.