• Centered on you.

    From custom lake homes to kitchen-dining reimaginings. From condominium renovations to tiny home ADUs and she-sheds.

    We deliver healthier homes to you and your days. For the environment that impacts you the most: where you draw up to 90% of your breaths.

    Based in the Highland Park neighborhood and designing for these regions:

    1. Twin Cities’ Minneapolis and St. Paul

    2. Lake Minnetonka’s 13 Cities and Municipalities

    3. Polk County, Wisconsin and St. Croix River Valley

    4. Flathead Valley, Montana (Big Fork & Whitefish region)

    5. Willing to support for other regions’ projects on a per-project basis

    Takka Day’s toolkit includes two decades of professional accreditations in : WELL Standard, Passive House Institute US (Phius), and Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED), and CSI (CDT), and 16 years of AIA and NCARB AXP hours.

  • Your experience with us is cozy and fun.

    Participate in y/our design sketching & ideation as much (or as little) as you like. OR: Pass the torch to us and say, “Go!”. Your project process and cadence is bespoke to you.

    No matter the scale of your project needs, we practice an integrated design process methodology that includes behind-the-scenes collaborations with (unbilled) engineers, builders, craftspersons & product experts.

    By collaborating with these partners early and often, we manage your ongoing cost and time expectations; and save your project costs by up to 35% compared to traditional architecture methods that design… and then collaborate much… later.

    Our methods have been refined over 16 years of integrated leadership in custom homes - as well as corporate, workplace, public (library, city hall), UX and even product design. We bring these distilled design-thinking practices to your project scope - however modest or bold the scale.

  • “Takka day!” our toddlers exclaim when tucked-in to bed - requesting to “talk about our day” (in baby-talk) before falling asleep.

    ‘Takka day’ became shorthand for our bedtime routine of conversational reflection. On the roses and thorns of their daily experience. Their footsteps and toe-stubbings. Where they’ve been. Where they are going.

    Hence our firm’s namesake. We design for you and your days. It begins with ‘takka day’.

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    definitions of “takka”:

    • (noun) : hearth ; (in Finnish)

    • (verb) : to stand still ; (in Nepali)

    • (onomotopoeic) : sound of footsteps or clicking heels ; (in Japanese)

    • (adjective)‍ ‍: appropriate and fitting ; (in Tamil Indian)