If you look closely, you'll notice that some of the accessories -- lamps, vases, flowers -- seem to shift around in different shots of the same room, or move from room to room. They call that 'staging'. Just for the record, my favorite flowers are NOT yellow chrysanthemums. OK, on with the tour...
If you were walking to our house from the Metro (subway) station a couple blocks away, here's how it would look as you approached the house -- provided you were looking through a wide-angle camera lens.
Here's the front view -- also slightly distorted by the camera, which makes it look a little taller and skinnier.
The front porch is very welcoming. A lovely place to hang out when the weather is nice -- if you don't mind sharing it with a spider or two. 
Welcome! We love our front door, and we're pretty sure it was original to the house.
Come on in! From the entryway, you can see all the way through the living room to the dining and family rooms.
The living room and dining room.
Dining room and kitchen
Kitchen from dining room.
Another view of the kitchen from the family room. That's not my teakettle on the stove...
The family room, with Beatles Rock Band!
The main level bathroom.
There are two other rooms on the main level: the "Indian Room," which is a guest bedroom with Indian decor, and my office. The photographer didn't deem either room photo-worthy, but here's the door to my office. We refinished and reused all the original interior doors on the main level of the house.
Let's head upstairs. The stairs are one of the main focal points of the house, with handmade tile from California.
Front upstairs bedroom, with balcony doors open.
Josh's office wasn't deemed photo-worthy either, but here are the closet doors. All the doors upstairs are new, but were stained to match the original doors.
The blue & white hall bath upstairs is difficult to photograph, but he did take a detail of the floor tile.
The master bedroom, with built-in shelving and window seat.
The master bath, with an overabundance of yellow mums.
Most of the 'green' features of the house are hidden, but the master bath has a grey water recycling system. Water from the sink is held in a tank underneath and is used to flush the toilet.
Down in the basement, you can see our hot-water recovery system. As hot wastewater drains out through the big pipe, it heats clean water in the copper pipe wrapped around it. That water goes to the on-demand water heaters, which have to use less energy to heat it the rest of the way to 120 degrees. The green plumbing pipe is also 'green'. 
This super-efficient boiler heats the water for the radiant floor heat throughout the house (and small radiators in the basement).
And last, but not least, here is the back of the house.
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