The Art of
Effortless Living
Household management, home watch, and every errand in between, for homes around Lake Minnetonka and Edina.
One trusted point of contact. Every detail handled.
The Luxury of Time, Perfectly Managed
Finn & Lola is a whole-home concierge for the Lake Minnetonka area, the steady hand between your household and everything it depends on. We anticipate needs, coordinate people, and quietly solve problems, so your time and energy go where only you can spend them.
I have spent twenty-seven years in private service, most of it inside other people's homes, learning what it takes for a household to feel handled rather than managed. Finn & Lola is that work, done by a small team of women, most of us mothers, that I trust with my own house. We are not a marketplace or an app. We run homes the way we run our own, and we notice the things that only someone who lives it would notice.
Molly Allene
Founder
Read our story →Quiet Stewardship, Seven Ways
Household Management
Supplies, inventory, deliveries, seasonal turnover, vendors, and the running list that never ends, run by us instead. One trusted point of contact who already knows how your household prefers things done.
Explore Household Management →On Call
For the day you cannot be there. We wait for the repair window, run the errand across town, or go look when something seems off. One text, one of our people, already nearby.
Explore On Call →Home Transitions
Selling, buying, or both. Decluttering and repair coordination before the listing, showing-ready while it is on the market, then packing, moving day, and a new house that runs like home by week one.
Explore Home Transitions →Home Watch
Documented visits for seasonal residents. Freeze checks, storm response, photo reports, and a home that never notices you left.
Explore Home Watch →Food & Kitchen
Menus planned, groceries handled, and the week cooked in your own kitchen. Allergies and medical diets taken seriously, not accommodated around.
Explore Food & Kitchen →Special Projects
A move, a renovation, a celebration, or the room you have walked past for two years. Work with a beginning and an end.
Explore Special Projects →Family Transitions
A baby, a recovery, a death, a divorce, a parent who needs more. We keep the household running through the seasons when the people in it cannot, and we keep them company.
Explore Family Transitions →In Their Words
We could not have done this without the ladies. The whole recovery period was handled with so much care and professionalism. We are so grateful!Will & Kathryn, Deephaven
This was our first winter away and they made our worries vanish. We received weekly reports, photos, and even on-site support when our boiler stopped working in the coldest week of the year.Theresa, Minnetrista
The pets are happy, the house is in trusted hands, and we worry about absolutely nothing.Barbara, Greenwood
What Changes for You
Clients rarely describe the work. They describe what stopped happening.
The running list goes quiet
You stop carrying the inventory of everything that needs doing, because someone else is carrying it, in full, without being reminded.
Decisions get made without you
The small ones, correctly, by someone who already knows how your household prefers things done and does not need to ask twice.
The projects finally move
The ones that have waited two years for a free Saturday. They advance on ordinary weekdays now, and you hear about them once they are done.
Your hours come back
Not in an abstract way. In hours you can name, and spend on the things only you can do.
Stewardship, Not Maintenance
Maintenance keeps a house from falling apart. Stewardship keeps a household running well, and keeps thinking about it when no one is watching. The difference between those two words is the whole business.
Small and local by design. We take on a limited number of households so that each one is genuinely known.
Before You Let Anyone In
Insured and Bonded
Since day one, and without a lapse since. Certificates are available on request.
Signed Confidentiality
Everyone who enters your home is background checked and has signed a confidentiality agreement.
No Vendor Markup
You pay your providers directly, at their price. We are paid for our time, never for standing between you and an invoice.
Minutes Away, Not a Phone Tree
Insured, discreet, and local, tending households across the west metro.
The Art of Effortless Living
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