Hi, I'm Angela Rockwood. Welcome to My Sweet Digs. I like to call it my Godess Sanctuary. But before you come on in, make sure you subscribe
down below. You guys ready? Let's do this. I live in the Los Angeles area, we call it
Miracle Mile. I live in a 2,200 square foot home. It's four-bedroom, three bath, and I have
a guest house and I love it. In my neighborhood, the homes go for about
1.3 to 3 million dollars, and when I first moved into this place, it was about $525,000. And because I'm a discount diva I got it down
to about $485,000. And it's worth a lot more now. Believe it or not when I first came into this
house, I actually walked into this house. It was 18 years ago, and a month and a half later I got into horrific car accident and that's what placed me into the wheelchair. I live with my honey, my roommate Riesa, my
warrior brother Lucas and my dear friend, Daniel. This is my dining room. My favorite part about my kitchen is the breakfast nook because that's where all the action happens. We do the parties, we do the chatting, all my friends hang out there, it's like the heart of the house. So I have this Balinese table in my breakfast nook, and because I'm a discount diva, there used to be a store in L.A. called Eastern
Cowboy. And you can get all the Balinese furniture
there for dirt cheap. I think it was like one hundred and fifty
dollars with all the chairs. I love to cook. That's one thing that I miss. I used to cook all the time. So my next thing is to try to
get the kitchen to be accessible where the stove can go up and down and then I can be able to cook for my friends and my honey. I have this wooden statue in my dining room and basically it's the goddess Guanyin. And I actually purchased it in Thailand like
21 years ago. It reminds me of myself because she's paralyzed
in the wood. Yet she has the many arms so
she could do everything and she represents love and compassion. If you really look at it, when you stand back it's crooked so it's imperfect,
which I love imperfection. My household pet peeve, you can ask my honey. Toilet seats down. The other thing is closets all the closets
have to be closed, because again, feng shui, I'm like Nicole Kidman in The Others. And this is my bedroom. This is where the goddess sleeps. My bedroom is actually a work in progress. So when I have an artist friend
that comes in, he's going to paint all of the walls like I'm out in a forest. And another friend's going to build this tree like a cherry blossom tree going over the bed and then I have all these butterflies
and things that would be like dangling. So you'll feel like you're sleeping outside
in the forest. My favorite part of my bedroom is my goddess
bed, the queen bed. Before I had my high bed, I had a huge, beyond California king bed that actually came all the way out but it was extremely low. And all my caretakers were hurting their backs, and then I switched for this queen size queen bed. I have three bathrooms in my house and one of the first bathrooms that's in the front is one of my favorites. And then there's this bathroom that I'm sitting
in behind the door is a mermaid painting that I did with my BFF before he passed away. And it's of a mermaid because
they say that mermaids can't walk but they're still magical. And of course, there's my
master bathroom which is in my room where I do all the magic of my makeup. Believe it or not I wear makeup every day. It's actually very healing for me because
I lost my dexterity in my fingers from the paralysis, makeup is my way of painting
again. I just enjoy the moment and I do it every
single day. This is my office. This is where the magic happens. My office space is very important to me because this is where I spend a lot of my time. Behind me, I have my vision board. So I'm all about the law of attraction; bringing forth what you believe
and dream of into reality. And so that is pretty much who I am. That is how I live my life. What do I not do for a living? I do everything. I'm a model, an actress, a TV producer, a
TV host for World Poker Tour. I'm a life coach, a motivational speaker. I'm a board member for Global Mobility and I'm an ambassador for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, and I'm just an overall
rolling goddess. When I moved into this house all the walls
were white and I do not like white walls. I was blessed enough to
meet this wonderful artist and he helped me paint the house very much like an old castle. I used to have a chandelier that used to come
down. And the curtains that you see, I pick like
the royal velvety curtains because it kind of resembles like Renaissance. And it's just it's it's a special room and
it just has good energy. I love it. I have a little puppy dog. He's four years old and his name is Kenzo
and I call him baby bear. We're very similar. I didn't know that I'd picked a disabled
dog. He obviously picked me. He's hypoglycemic and he has seizures. So we're exactly the same where we have to eat
every four hours. My ultimate splurge when I bought the house
was the fountain. I remember going into the store and looking
at this fountain and I remember bargaining with the owner and saying, "Nuh uh, you better
not like 1000 or 2000 off of it." And so now it is sitting on my porch, that I get to enjoy every Sunday with my little
baby bear when I get my zen on. The water trickles and it just takes me away and it's so important because in the hustle bustle and in my lifestyle, I need that moment
to just Zen. When I moved into my house, I purposely planned a housewarming party so
I had to get this house together within a month and a half. So the first week, painted all the walls. Second week, unboxed everything. Third week, found the curtains, basically the sheets you throw on the windows, and then the fourth week you just get everything together
make it look like it's livable. And then of course I had the party, and then
I had my accident. 18 years ago, I was in a distracted driving
incident that paralyzed me from the neck down and the doctor said I had 3 to 5% chance
of moving or feeling anything. The major changes that happened to this house after my accident, number one is in the front. My ex actually knocked the wall down and he matched the tiles and created a ramp to go all the way down and into the driveway. In the living room, there's just a little
lip that goes up into the dining room. I just threw down a metal ramp. A lot of my therapists that came
in here during my injury in the beginning, they came in there like, "Ang, you like bought this house as if
you knew you're going to be in a wheelchair," because all the doors are extremely wide, I didn't have to change anything in my bathroom. I just ripped out the cabinet so I can roll
underneath to get under the sink and the shower. I just built a little ramp just so I can go into the shower, and then that's it. It's now this year, 2019, that I'm finally putting my house together the way that I want to. I'm truly ecstatic about just decorating my house the way I want to and putting my love, my energy, the essence of everything that I've been wanting to do for a very, very long time. I am a positive freak so I have to surround
myself with positive energy all the time. I'm very particular about the people that I invite to my house, who stays the night, who lives in my house. I only pick people that I trust and that are
like family energy. And so people come here and they always say like, "Wow your house feels really good." I just think it's very important because we're all frequency, we're energy and it's important to have your haven on a good frequency high vibe. Thank you for watching Refinery 29. For more videos click here and to subscribe
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