Read between the lines: Why blended colours are the new neutral

Home Editor Eve Kelliher looks at how colour pros are mixing up new neutrals 

Leighton wallpaper, Bobbi Beck, in a broken-plan living space.

SAY the words The Inbetweeners, and some of us will forever think of four lads from the E4 TV series, cruising along, navigating their awkward adolescence — we’ll maybe try to avoid stalling at any bus stops as we reverse down memory lane.

But swerve back into the living room from the small screen — and today in-betweeners, in interior design terms, are the “almost colours”. And far from languishing on the sidelines, they’re the cool kids on the block, according to design pros.