Bio: Gregory Freeman (cont'd)

Originally I wanted to be an architect. I even applied to the University of Waterloo , as did my future roommate. Both of us decided it seemed crazy. So I switched. I thought at the time I wanted to teach.  I had done everything up until then with that focus in mind. But after three years at school I decided I was languishing and took just over three years off to travel and see the world. It was more of an awakening then I can begin to describe.

I lived out west, in Calgary for a little under a year, then off to Europe where I lived in Edinburgh, Scotland, and traveled to Austria, England and Belgium. I flew to the east and traveled to Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, lived in three different cities in Australia, and finished with Japan.

Cultures that grew and civilizations that built, and vanished eons ago opened my eyes to the possibility that I could create something that inspired myself and the person who commissioned me. It was not just the grandiose buildings either. Lowly two room houses in Japan were models of efficiency and grace, commercial offices in Vienna were outstanding in their understated luxury. A bridge built by convicts in Tasmania captured more than just being able to traverse a ten-meter creek (they were freed as a result of the work, simply because the governors’ wife was moved by the graceful, transverse arches that spanned the water). I came home with a renewed sense of purpose.

I decided to finish what I started and graduated seven years after I started school. I have a B.Sc. in Earth Science, a B.E.S. in Human Geography from the University of Waterloo and a minor in Economics From Sir Wilfred Laurier.

While finishing the last year I worked on my own doing remodels and restorations of Victorian era houses in the downtown of London, Ontario. I have always been very manual and enjoyed creating something, but I was still interested in architecture. Actually, I found I was more interested in furniture and that my favorite architects were also I designers. But I loved space, and ways to capture that as a place to live.

So I applied to a private school for Interior Design that was affiliated with McGill University in Montreal. The design program was intensive, 2 full years with 50 hours of class and about the same in homework every week; I supplemented that with courses from McGill in Architecture to graduate as an Interior Architect.

And that takes me here: I have been working for four years and building up my experience and portfolio. Please feel free to browse and to contact me with any questions or projects.

No job is too small. No question is insignificant.