#cleaned the entire dining room got my laundry started AND got the garbage and recycling taken care of

[pierswife]

Got all of my Being Productive stuff done for the day, so now it's time to relax and chill 😌

[sambergscott]

queen of clean

actually managed to finish an entire fic!!! and i don’t completely hate it!!! what is this wizardry

Jake Peralta is an inherently messy person.

When he was a kid, his bedroom was a mess. His mom was always too busy working and dealing with the side effects of marrying a selfish, drunken slut to care and as a result, he never cleaned it up. When he finally got his own place, his bad childhood habits stuck. Clothes lived on the floor, dishes were never washed, shelves and drawers and cupboards accumulated clutter. He wasn’t any better at work; Holt once compared his locker to a Philippine garbage dump and Algernon the mouse was a frequent guest at Hotel Peralta, located in his desk drawer.

In a weird twist of fate, he ended up marrying Amy Santiago - the Queen of Clean.

Moving in with her was amazing and he’d never been happier, but it had also been a sharp learning curve. He was suddenly making his bed every morning (even though he just messed it up again every night #pointless), washing dishes after every meal and she helped him declutter Marie Kondo stylez. She has made him a better person in every way.

Unfortunately, with their jobs, they often work crazy long hours and bad habits sometimes creep back in.

Amy’s away and he’s been pulling double shifts all week and when he gets home all he wants to do is order Chinese food, Facetime his wife and fall asleep on the sofa in front of Property Brothers. Tiredness, missing Amy and being an inherently messy person are not conducive factors to a tidy, clean home. And, of course, he doesn’t realise just how bad he’s let it get until two hours before she comes home.

And it’s really bad. Even for his standards.

The laundry basket is overflowing. The bed has not been made all week. The kitchen is... Actually, he doesn’t even want to think about what state the kitchen is in. Talk about a Philippine garbage dump.

If Amy came home to this, she would flip. And probably immediately start cleaning it up. After a stressful week helping out her dad post- knee surgery and the always anxiety-inducing affair of travelling on her own, the least she deserves is food, cuddles and to come home to a clean apartment.

He changes into more comfortable clothes, switches on Lover and retrieves Amy’s cleaning kit from underneath the sink.

He starts with their bedroom and making their bed. He pulls the sheets over, smooths them out with his hand and styles with the decorative pillows Amy loves. It doesn’t look as neat as when they do it together, but it’s fine. It’ll do. He picks up his excess socks from all over the floor and empties the laundry basket into the washing machine. He throws all the chocolate wrappers from his bedside table away, wipes down the surfaces with Amy’s homemade cleaner and hoovers the floor.

Next, he moves onto the bathroom. He cleans the toilet, bath, sink and mirror and sprays some air freshener to make it smell nice.

Making excellent time, he begins to tackle the disaster zone that is the kitchen. A stack of pizza boxes and bottles of beer go in the recycling, he washes all the dirty plates and cups that are stained with coffee and tidies everything away into its appropriate cupboard or drawer.

That’s when Taylor is rudely interrupted by a text popping up on his phone.

AMY SANTIAGO, 17.57:

Babe!!! Great news!!! I managed to get on an earlier flight! David has just picked me up from the airport. I can’t wait to see you ❤️

“Shit,” he curses, looking around at how much more he has to do before quickly typing a response.

JAKE PERALTA, 17.58:

Can’t wait to see you either, Ames 😘

Picking up the pace, he cleans all the kitchen counters and the oven and also the floor and rushes round the rest of the apartment opening the windows, suddenly remembering that is something his wife likes to do. He straightens the dining chairs, cleans the table, and dusts some of Amy’s ornaments.

Moving onto the living room, he kind of regrets leaving it until last. It’s a total mess. Fortunately, he’s on a roll and it’s pretty easy to fix. He puts all the empty wrappers in the trash and cleans an extra coffee mug he forgot about (he drinks a lot of coffee, OK?). He dusts the TV, waters the plants and hoovers the floor. He’s plumping the final cushion when she opens the front door.

“You’re home,” he says dumbly before she crashes into his arms, hugging him as tight as she can.

“Now I’m home,” she responds, making him blush. She started referring to him as her home soon after they moved in together and, yeah, it’s cheesy, and, yeah, Rosa ripped into them when she overhead them say it one time, but it is true. She makes him feel safe and comfortable and vice versa.

“I missed you.” He kisses her. “So, so much.” He kisses her again. “Wait, how’s my best friend Victor?”

“He’s fine, just a little sore. And don’t let Charles hear you say that.”

“He’s probably had our apartment bugged for years,” Jake shrugs.

Amy scrunches up her nose in disgust. “That actually sounds like something he would do.” His actual best friend is obsessed with their private life. Like, obsessed obsessed. There are hundreds, if not thousands of examples, but just this week when Jake was Facetiming her at his desk, Charles popped up in the background to check whether she’d got her period yet.

(They’re trying for a baby).

(Jake was so excited when they finally decided to start that he accidentally spilled the beans to a delighted Charles).

(His obsession with her reproductive system at an all time high, he constantly recommends the best sex positions for conception, foods she should be eating and names for their future, although hopefully-not-too far-in-the-future, baby).

(Neither of them want to know how he’s suddenly started tracking her cycle).

“Speaking of the apartment,” Jake swiftly changes the subject, “what do you think?”

Using her finely honed detective skills, she clocks the neatly plumped cushions, the sparkling countertops and the lack of takeaway boxes anywhere. Her eyes water as she looks back at him. “You cleaned?”

“Yep,” he grins. “The entire apartment. Well, all the rooms I’d messed up. I didn’t go anywhere near your books, I promise.”

“Babe, it looks amazing,” she says, genuinely impressed and, to be honest, a little turned on.

“You should see the bedroom,” he lowers his voice into what he thinks is a sexy voice, kind of ruining the moment.

She rolls her eyes, following him into the bedroom anyway. Making the bed is a huge source of contention in their relationship and by the look on her face, she’s thrilled that he’s done that too.

“I even arranged your one thousand pillows,” he brags.

“Thank you,” she whispers, looking around the room in amazement. It never looks this tidy. There is always an errant sock or two on his side of the room, but the floor is 100% sock free. It’s beautiful. “I can’t believe you did all this for me.”

 “I love you. And this place was kind of a mess without you. I’m kind of a mess without you. But you’ve had a hard week and you deserve to come home to a nice apartment.”

“I love you so much, Jake Peralta,” she declares, grabbing his face and kissing him, pouring every ounce of love and gratitude into it.

When they eventually pull apart, he has a dopey smile on his face. “Maybe I should quit my job and become a full-time cleaner if you’re gonna kiss me like that.”

“You’re a dork,” she replies, punctuating her sentence with another kiss. She suddenly gasps. “Did you clean the bathroom as well?”

“Baby, I cleaned the whole damn thing. Toilet, bath, sink and floor. I even folded the toilet roll into a point at the end.”

“Oh my God. That’s the sexiest thing you’ve ever said.”

“That’s the sexiest thing I’ve ever said?” He blanches. His game must be way worse than he thought. 

“Mm-hmm,” she hums. “What other sexy things can you say?”

He quickly searches his brain for something cleaning related that his wife would find sexy. “I... uhhh... vacuumed?” He says awkwardly. “And I, um, put the laundry on.”

She gives him an encouraging nod. “Tell me more.”

“I separated the whites and darks,” he plays along. “I put it on a cold wash to save the environment. I didn’t drop any socks on the way there.”

“Ohhh, mama...”

He’s always been a messy person, but if sex is the reward for tidying their apartment, he’s for sure going to do it more often. If she’s the Queen of Clean, he’s going to be her King.

[dawnjeman]

Beautiful Homes of Instagram: New Construction

  Happy Tuesday, everyone! I hope everything is wonderful with you. I was going to share this reader’s home (@craftsmanluxe) on my “Beautiful Homes of Instagram” series a few months back but due a health issue, I had to reschedule it and I am happy to be sharing this newly-built home with you guys today. I hope you enjoy it!

  “When my husband and I first moved to the Midwest we had lots of graduate school debt and no children. We bought a small, simple home with a tiny yard. We finished the basement and felt happy and comfortable. As our family grew, it became difficult to fit in our house. We began looking for a larger home. We searched on and off for nearly ten years but we never found what we wanted. It was easy to find houses that were bigger and had larger yards. But they never seemed any nicer so it never seemed worthwhile to move.

The idea of building was completely out of the question because it seemed risky and overwhelming. But one day we happened across the Facebook posts of a builder whose style we loved. After a lot of thought my husband and I came to the realization that we wanted to live in our dream house with our children to enjoy it with us rather than waiting until they were grown and moved out. So if we couldn’t find what we wanted then it was time to go ahead and build what we wanted.

We didn’t know exactly what we wanted the house to look like. But we wanted to enjoy beautiful workmanship. So we knew that everything had to be done to the highest possible standard. We were also concerned about oversights sneaking into our construction. So we wanted to make sure that we did our research and got things right the first time.

The one room we had a good vision of from the start was the kitchen. We knew we wanted a Wolf Range and a Subzero fridge. Luckily we also knew that those big commercial appliances were nonstandard sizes and the cabinets and ventilation had to be designed to accommodate them.

Our construction was not without its fair share of challenges. But the house turned out lovely and we wanted to share it so that it could be seen and enjoyed by people who love design. We chose to document our story here as a way to thank those who posted before us and to inspire those who come after us.”

Thanks for touring our home.

Sandra and Andy, Homeowners.

  Beautiful Homes of Instagram: New Construction

Custom shaker style cabinets by Amish cabinetry is used throughout the house.

The island lights are Small Lanterns from the E.F. Chapman Darlana Collection by Visual Comfort in Polished Nickel.

The counterstools and kitchen table are from the Sedona line from Furniture Row in Deep Weathered Pine – similar here & here.

Countertop

 Countertops are LG Viaterra Minuet. The fabricator finished the counters with square eased hand polished edges with sharp inside corners and 0 inch radius eased outside corners.

The panels on the front of the island match the cabinet doors and the hood. The lovely flower box on the left is from Ross.

Backsplash

 The kitchen backsplash is made with Atlas Concorde Eon Carrara Brick that match perfectly with the countertops. We used white grout.

Range: The range is a Wolf 48 inch dual fuel with 6 burners and infrared charbroiler (similar here). It has pro handles and traditional red Wolf knobs. The range uses a 52 inch Wolf hood liner.

Built-in Microwave

The built-in microwave is a Wolf M Series 30 inch with drop-down door. The drawers/cabinets to the left of the large sink conceal waste and recycling bins. The dishwasher is Asko.

There is over five feet of space between the island and the range for plenty of room to accommodate multiple chefs and kids all using the space at the same time.

Kitchen Sink & Faucet

The plumbing fixtures from left to right are a Perrin & Rowe Traditional Filter Faucet in polished chrome, air activated switch button for the garbage disposal, Perrin & Rowe 4-Hole Kitchen Faucet With Sidespray, and Perrin and Rowe Soap/Lotion Dispenser.

The sink is a Shaws Original 2 Bowl Fireclay Apron Front Kitchen Sink in white with a Shaws Basket Strainer.

Kitchen Island

The kitchen island has a seamless countertop that is 110 inches long and 64 inches wide.

The fridge is a Subzero 36 inch Built-In Refrigerator and the Freezer is a Subzero 36 inch Built-In Freezer. They have pro style handles. The full length cabinets house a concealed pantry.  We also have a walk-in pantry for additional storage space.  Additionally, we especially love how the detail on the island posts turned out.

Island Sink & Faucet

On the island sink, the plumbing fixtures from left to right are polished chrome Perrin & Rowe Soap/Lotion Dispenser, air switch for the garbage disposal, and Perrin & Rowe Single Lever Single Hole Kitchen Faucet With Sidespray.

The sink is a Shaws Single Bowl Fireclay Apron Front Kitchen Sink in White.

Kitchen Paint Color

All cabinets are painted Sherwin Williams Extra White.

Cabinet Hardware: The cabinet knobs and pulls are from Top Knobs. The pulls are from the Edwardian collection in polished chrome. The knobs are from the Chateau Collection. We used decorative panels on the ends of the cabinets to give them a more finished look. 

Kitchen & Dining Room

This entire space feels open and connected. Notice the cabinet layout in the kitchen.

The flower box on the kitchen table was made by a vendor at a local craft market.

Create a Beautiful Kitchen:

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Dining Table

The dining table extends to 112 inches but has two concealable leaves. The French doors are from Marvin. The handles are contemporary handles in oil rubbed bronze.

Dining Table: Here.

Dining Chairs: Here.

Linear Chandelier

The light above the dining table is a Linear Pendant from the E.F. Chapman Darlana Collection by Visual Comfort in Polished Nickel.

Layout

The kitchen opens to an inviting dining area and family room.

Pew Bench

The matching pew style bench works great as casual seating at the table or as additional seating for guests. The pillows are from Pier 1 Imports. The walls are Repose Gray from Sherwin Williams.

Dining Room Cabinet

The China Cabinet coordinates with the Sedona table.

Hardwood Flooring

The hardwood flooring throughout the entire main level is from the Mirage Natural Collection. It is a 5 inch wide knotty walnut with a charcoal/cashmere finish – similar (different sizes) here, here & here.

We liked the box newel posts and square balusters for their traditional look.

Staircase

The railing is custom stained to match the walnut stair treads. We chose to use open stairs to highlight the exposed walnut treads. We also love the contrast of the white woodwork against the dark wood flooring.

Master Bathroom

Bathroom cabinet paint color is Sherwin Williams Extra White.

The faucets are Perrin and Rowe Georgian Era Column Spout Widespread Faucets in polished chrome. After purchasing the faucets we discovered that they conveniently swivel from side to side.

The sconces are from Restoration Hardware – similar here.

Beautiful Bathroom Mirrors: Here & Here.

Bathroom Wall Tile

We are happy that we chose to tile all the way to the ceiling. The coloring of the room all goes together just as we had hoped.

The towel rings are from Rohl.

Hardware:  Pulls & Knobs.

Flooring

The floor tiles are Eon Carrara 24 inch rectified floor tiles from Atlas Concorde with Rolling Fog grout – similar here & here (marble-looking porcelain tile).

The walls are Repose Gray from Sherwin Williams.

Shower

The shower tile is from the EON Carrara collection from Atlas Concorde. The grout on the walls is white. The grout on the floor tiles is Rolling Fog. We used a white Schluter edge for a clean finish on the rough ends of the tiles. All the showers in the house have frameless glass walls and doors.

See more marble tiles here.

Lighting

The light is a Crystorama Calypso three light glass ball crystal chandelier.

Shower

The shower features a Perrin & Rowe Georgian Era Pressure Balance Trim Kit with a diverter and a wall mounted shower arm on a sliding rail. A Rohl 5 inch Bordano showerhead completes the look.

Bathtub

The tub is a Kohler 60×32 inch soaker tub. The tub deck uses the same material as our countertops. The tiles are the same as those used in the master shower and behind the sinks.

Tub Filler

The tub filler is a Perrin & Rowe Georgian Era Exposed Tub/Shower Mixer Valve with Lever Handles in polished chrome.

The tub filler adds a nice decorative element to this beautiful bath nook.

Laundry Room

The laundry room uses the same materials as the kitchen and bathrooms to maintain a unified feeling throughout the house. The washer and dryer are LG with an additional pedestal SideKick washer.

Laundry Room Sink

We chose a Perrin & Rowe Bridge Kitchen Faucet with Sidespray in polished chrome and a Shaw Apron Front Sink for an industrial feel for this workspace. Also note how well the EON tile blends seamlessly with the Viaterra Minuet countertops.

Hardware:  Pulls & Knobs.

The towel rings are from Rohl.

Be Practical

Efficiency is critical with our family of six. We choose the LG Sidekick instead of a traditional pedestal for our washing machine so that we could do two different loads of laundry at the same time.

Mudroom

The mudroom features a custom bench and cubbies. Since the room also has a coat closet we chose not to put hooks on the cubbies and to use them primarily as seating.

The floor uses Eon Carrara 24 inch rectified floor tiles from Atlas Concorde with Rolling Fog grout.

Paint Color

Extra White by Sherwin Williams.

Wall Paint Color

The walls are Repose Gray from Sherwin Williams.

Lighting

The light is a Capital Lighting Stanton 6 light Foyer Light.

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