превод на енглески

"Schaffen" is one of those verbs that I often find it really difficult to translate directly to English. Usually it's in the sense of "provide" or "manage". I assumed here it was in the sense of "making the house fein" i.e. pretty?

Hmm, this is true, I usually contrast them with clean vs pure as I mentioned in the footnotes but it depends on context. We don't really use "pure" like that often. Other than saying "clean" vs "really clean" for "sauber" vs "rein", I'm stuck on options in English at the moment. Any suggestions (from you or others) would be appreciated though! Translations I've seen in general for "sauber und rein" are along the lines of "neat and tidy", while for "nicht sauber sondern rein" we tend to say something like "squeaky clean".