Attching shapes to cells

I am trying to create a room booking system with room types and dates as headers and footers as a spreadsheet in numbers. I would like to use shapes to fill in areas for rooms that are booked. However, shapes are always floating above my frozen columns (and tables) when I really want to to pass under the columns (room titles) when I scroll through the dates. Is there any way to attach shapes to cells and tables?

EDIT: I re-read your original question to see if I had answered it and found that I had not. Your problem was with frozen headers and the shapes being on top of the headers when it scrolls. Not sure I can solve that one. Less than 100% opacity on the shapes will let you read through them but it is not a complete solution.
And here's what I had written, if anything here is of use:
I went to that website yesterday and saw the colored chart. The leading and trailing points on the shape did not seem necessary, though maybe preferable. But you probably also want the text in the boxes and that is leading you to merging of cells. Unfortunately this adds some steps to creating the colored areas and deleting the colored areas. So here is an idea:
Shapes can have text in them. The ones in the screenshot below were created with a double-ended fat arrow. It is modifiable into this shape and I made it the height of a row in my table. I went to the Text Inspector and set the inset margin for the text to zero. I selected 12 point text. I then made several copies of this shape and filled them with different colors. I locked the table so it can't be moved. I did not lock the four shapes (I'll say why later). Simply copy/paste a shape, relocate it to the table, stretch it horizontally to fit the cells you want to cover, and change the text. Delete it and it's gone. Move it or stretch it if the reservation changes.
I did not lock the shapes because you can't copy/paste them as easily. They paste as locked shapes which you then have to unlock to move. If you choose to write a "copy, paste, then unlock" script and assign a key to it, then I'd lock them.

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