apartment therapy changing the world, one room at a time

Somehow, there's something serendipitous in the fact that the new Saturday version of the Los Angeles Time Home and Garden Section leads with an occasional feature, Tweaked, that we know we'll look forward to and we bet you will too: challenging artists and designers to transform inexpensive pieces. Rebecca Johnson and Jeff Klarin show three different treatments; the video that accompanies the article started our mind planning a trip to Ikea, the source for the basic shelf. Other articles include a checklist of what to do in your garden in August; Hot Property looks at Nicole Kidman's new home in Beverly Hills; and an a look at the challenges homeowners, who've decided to become landlords while waiting for an upswing in the housing market, face. More after the jump...