--- title: "Actual Architecture Company — Architects & Building Designers | Houzz" canonical_html_url: https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/actual-architecture-company-pfvwus-pf~472920701 markdown_url: https://www.houzz.com/md/professionals/pf~472920701.md entity_type: LocalBusiness business_name: "Actual Architecture Company" category: ["Architects"] image: https://st.hzcdn.com/fimgs/56d3cce40b397de3_2412-w400-h400-b0-p0--.jpg address: "Omaha, Nebraska, United States" latitude: 41.2075 longitude: -96.1147 phone: "(402) 551-0306" website: http://www.actual.ac rating: 5 review_count: 2 best_of_houzz_awards: 2 followers: 18 last_updated: 2026-09-05 --- # Actual Architecture Company Original Houzz profile: [Actual Architecture Company](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/actual-architecture-company-pfvwus-pf~472920701) ## Professional summary - **Primary category:** Architects - **Location:** Omaha, NE - **Serves:** Omaha, Bellevue, Papillion, Millard, La Vista, Ralston, Offutt Afb, Offutt Air Force Base, Canada, Carter Lake, Chicago, Council Bluffs, Crescent, Los Angeles, New York, New Zealand, Offutt A F B, San Francisco, USA - **Houzz rating:** 5.0 out of 5 (2 reviews) - **Best of Houzz:** 2 awards (2020), for Design, Service. ## About ### Houzz Badges - 1,000 Ideabook Saves Actual Architecture Company is an internationally recognized architecture and design firm based in Omaha, Nebraska, but operating around the world with expansive vision. The firm draws on backgrounds in art, landscape, and architecture to provide informed, highly considered design for a wide range of clients, sites, and projects – from individuals to art institutions, urban to rural settings, and furniture to large buildings. By maximizing the potential of academic and professional practices, and with an open mind to creative collaboration, Actual Architecture Co. integrates design-research, speculative design practice, and a commitment to building architecture that enhances culture and community. Actual Architecture Co. was founded by Jeffrey L. Day, FAIA after 15 years practicing as a founding principal of Min \| Day in San Francisco and Omaha. ### Services Provided - Architectural Design - Building Design - Home Remodeling - Architectural Drawings - Custom Homes - House Plans - New Home Construction - Home Additions - Home Extensions - Kitchen Design - Sustainable Design - Kitchen Remodeling - Energy-Efficient Homes - Floor Plans - 3D Rendering - Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs) - Bathroom Design - Green Building - Space Planning - Guesthouse Design & Construction - Universal Design - Multigenerational Homes - Pool House Design & Construction - Drafting - Historic Building Conservation - Project Management - Handicap-Accessible Design - Outdoor Kitchen Design - Barn Design & Construction - Basement Remodeling - Attic Conversion - Tiny House Construction - Staircase Design - Deck Design - Site Preparation - Modular Home Additions - Prefab Houses - Log Home Construction - Custom Furniture Design - Modern Home Plans ### Areas Served - Omaha - Bellevue - Papillion - Millard - La Vista - Ralston - Offutt Afb - Offutt Air Force Base - Canada - Carter Lake - Chicago - Council Bluffs - Crescent - Los Angeles - New York - New Zealand - Offutt A F B - San Francisco - USA ### Typical Job Cost $50,000 - 5 million Project cost vary greatly and we work at all budget levels. Please contact us about your project. ## Business Details | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Business Name | Actual Architecture Company | | Address | Omaha, Nebraska, United States | | Phone | (402) 551-0306 | | Website | http://www.actual.ac | | License Number | NE: A3278 CA: C26653 | | Followers on Houzz | 18 | **Social profiles:** - Facebook — @actual.ac - X (Twitter) — @jeffreylday - Blog — www.actual.ac ## Contact - **Houzz profile:** [Actual Architecture Company](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/actual-architecture-company-pfvwus-pf~472920701) - **Website:** http://www.actual.ac - **Phone:** (402) 551-0306 ## Credentials **Certifications & Awards** - Over 85 AIA and other design awards, see www.actual.ac - **Best of Houzz:** 2 awards (2020), for Design, Service. **Affiliations** - [AIA Custom Residential Architects Network](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/schools-and-organizations/aia-custom-residential-architects-network-pfvwus-pf~629398549) - [The American Institute of Architects](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/schools-and-organizations/the-american-institute-of-architects-pfvwus-pf~1350720471) - [AIA Nebraska](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/schools-and-organizations/aia-nebraska-pfvwus-pf~596858086) - [NCARB](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/schools-and-organizations/ncarb-pfvwus-pf~1477640315) - [Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/schools-and-organizations/association-of-collegiate-schools-of-architecture-pfvwus-pf~1385785278) ## Reviews **Overall rating: 5.0 out of 5 — 2 reviews** ### All 2 reviews **★★★★★ — Justine Cormack, April 2019** > I couldn't recommend Jeff more highly. His vision, creativity and professionalism as an architect are undeniable, and he is also a lovely and easy person to deal with. Jeff designed the new home that my husband and I are building and we couldn't be more thrilled with it. It is a dramatic and inspiring structure, strong and sculptural, yet the design is highly functional, practical and liveable. We are a couple of months off completion and simply can't wait to move in. We know we will love living in our new house. Thank you Jeff! **★★★★★ — Bridget Keegan, March 2019** > Actual Architecture does an amazing job of working with client's vision in a way that responds to the site and the client's needs. They are especially good with using subtle details and high quality materials to make our space attractive as well as comfortable. ## Selected projects - [Wedge House](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/wedge-house-pj-vj~5426564) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 14 - Description: A geometric primitive exterior form on the exterior belies a complex and playful interior. Asymmetric window placement complements the simple shape of the house. Pre-cut, modular structural insulated panels (SIPs) for the exterior walls reduce on-site construction time and provide a high degree of effective thermal insulation (alternative construction with Cross-Laminated Timber or conventional stick-frame are possible). The main house ‘wedge’ is clad in large, corrugated panels while the square… - [Bucktown House](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/bucktown-house-pj-vj~4076740) - Location: Chicago, IL - Photos: 15 - Description: A generic interior is transformed through the introduction of custom millwork, furniture, and commissioned artwork. Our intervention combines a quiet urbanity with intimate spaces, unexpected moments, and a close attention to detail. Wood clads the interior-exterior thresholds to articulate surface conditions while camouflaging functional storage and utilities. A spatial generosity emphasizes the exterior with decks on four levels, pocket gardens, and city views. The result is a carefully orches… - [House on Lake Okoboji](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/house-on-lake-okoboji-pj-vj~4065836) - Location: West Okoboji, IA - Photos: 12 - Description: For a lake residence on a diminutive lot in rural Iowa we conceived of a house as a series of spatial frames that offer a focused and private experience on an otherwise densely populated shore. This second home sits in a resort area that appears as an oasis in the midst of the Midwestern 'corn desert'. The owners desired a house that was 'all about the lake' and the oak trees that bound the lake from the expanse of farmland beyond. The house behaves as a 3-dimensional set of 'blinders' obscuring… - [L Residence](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/l-residence-pj-vj~4066183) - Location: Omaha, NE - Photos: 11 - Description: Located in an Art Deco hotel recently converted for private condominium use, we designed a penthouse apartment with a roof deck overlooking the center of downtown Omaha. For the L-shaped unit we created a set of nested spaces with a grand room that appears as an exterior within the confines of the dense walls. 15-foot ceilings allowed the construction of a cozy mezzanine along the vertical path to the private roof deck above. Primary wood veneered walls hide bedrooms, house utilitarian areas, se… - [Saratoga House and Pool](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/saratoga-house-and-pool-pj-vj~4066428) - Location: Saratoga, CA - Photos: 7 - Description: A joint venture with Burks-Toma Architects. Houses must often strive to reconcile seemingly contradictory desires and circumstances, yet the best homes do not hide their inherent contradictions - they in fact thrive with the tension created between opposite poles. This house for a young family is no exception. There was the desire to experience an exceptional view, but not to be overwhelmed by it; a need for handicap accessibility, but a desire not to be controlled by it; a desire to feel the si… - [9th Avenue Apartment](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/9th-avenue-apartment-pj-vj~4066553) - Location: New York, NY - Photos: 6 - Description: For residence that straddles new and old areas of a recent building conversion our challenge was to accommodate lots of storage, expansive audio/visual components, a desk, and a chef's kitchen without compromising the loft-like spaces of the apartment. Our approach unified these diverse needs with a single strategy based on flexible cabinetry. The built-in units discretely accommodate all of the clients' needs while simultaneously adding spatial definition, color, and texture to the 'clean slate… - [Palo Alto Pool House](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/palo-alto-pool-house-pj-vj~4066751) - Location: Palo Alto, CA - Photos: 6 - Description: One in a series of projects on a suburban property, the pool house is a transparent structure within a comprehensive reworking of the rear yard. Anchoring a strategy to exploit undiscovered opportunities of the existing landscape, the pool house allows for a progression of increasingly specific and intimate moments. Exterior gathering areas lead to a screened dining porch, glassed-in kitchen, and living area cut into the hillside. A cedar-clad box containing a sauna separates the living area fro… - [Fogscape / Cloudscape](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/fogscape-cloudscape-pj-vj~4076647) - Location: San Francisco, CA - Photos: 8 - Description: Modern by Design Showcase House Asked to design a "Jack & Jill" bedroom with bathroom connector on the top floor of a large San Francisco home we began with the notion of the rooms as dream-like abstracted landscape. We call our rooms "Fogscape" and "Cloudscape" based on the inspiration we took from the fog that rolls into San Francisco. We treated the 3 rooms as a suite with a twist on the traditional ideas of children's rooms and the typical guest room / office. Fogscape includes a rolling wal… - [Boxcar 10 & Bluebarn Threatre](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/boxcar-10-and-bluebarn-threatre-pj-vj~5426558) - Location: Omaha, NE - Photos: 14 - Description: BLUEBARN theatre translates the upstart scrappiness and risk-taking ethos of its namesake theatre company into built form. The project began with a donated plot of land and an open minded developer. The theatre anchors a multi-part urban scheme which includes a mixed-use residential building (Boxcar 10) and a privately owned public park. The BLUEBARN itself is a hybrid proscenium, black box, and environmental theatre with a direct connection to an outdoor performance space. The remaining program… - [Custom Furniture](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/custom-furniture-pj-vj~5426570) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 21 - Description: Close to human scale, furniture and related products form the intermediary between humans and their built surroundings. Our objects encourage users to manipulate their near environment. - [The Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/the-bemis-center-for-contemporary-arts-pj-vj~5426555) - Location: Omaha, NE - Photos: 6 - Description: Working with FACT (Fabrication And Construction Team), our student-staffed design-build lab at University of Nebraska-Lincoln, we designed a framework plan and multiple projects for the Bemis Center, an artist-in-residence program and a contemporary art gallery. Our approach to this series of projects imagines the center not as a static container for art objects, but as a dynamic, transmutable landscape within which art and public discourse occurs. The Bemis is a social condenser. Following the… - [Ross House](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/ross-house-pj-vj~5460150) - Location: Ross, CA - Photos: 8 - Description: Set among oak trees on a sloped site, strategic additions open up a 1930’s house to intimate views. Our goals were to feature the old oak forest, create new indoor / outdoor connections, and remedy awkward and unusable spaces created by past remodeling efforts including a sweltering roof terrace, extremely awkward master bath and closets, and a dark and cramped kitchen. With modern custom detailing, the additions and remodeled areas integrate with the overall aesthetic of the home. - [Sylvan Lake House](https://www.houzz.com/hznb/projects/sylvan-lake-house-pj-vj~7632259) - Location: Not specified - Photos: 34 [See all 13 projects](https://www.houzz.com/professionals/architects-and-building-designers/actual-architecture-company-pfvwus-pf~472920701) ## Community Q&A **Q: polka dot details** *(in Photo Questions)* how was the detail, with the dots, done? A: Thanks for the question Rachel. We made a digital pattern and then worked with the painter to create a stencil that he could apply to the wall as a mask **Q: is that Alien Eggs** *(in Photo Questions)* Find these photos weird A: These are just battery powered LED lights, not alien eggs...or at least I don't think they are... **Q: Hello Min I Day . Could you tell what is the perforated metal panel ?** *(in Photo Questions)* A: The perforated doors are MDF, not metal. The murphy bed folds away, and then the door can be rolled in front of the bed to expose a desk. There are several images on our Houzz page showing the door in different configurations. We created the hole pattern in Grasshopper, the visual scripting plugin for 3D modeling application Rhino. The pattern holes are optimized for 5 different end mill diameters. -Jeff **Q: How did you get this effect?** *(in Photo Questions)* Hello! Could you clarify technology? The way, you made those dots! Thanks in advance Sofya A: We created the dot screen pattern and the painter used it to make a laser-cut mask that he temporarily adhered to the wall before applying the pink paint layer. He removed the mask to reveal a patterned wall that looks similar to a screen print. --- *Source: Houzz professional profile. Reflects the profile as of 2026-09-05.*