The paper describes a residence designed and built to demonstrate that active and passive solar homes could be economically by conventional home builders. The systems were designed for simplicity and cost effectiveness. The home was built in 56 days with conventional building materials and built by labourers with no particular training in energy efficient building techniques. After one season of operation the energy use data shows impressive performance. The auxiliary fuel requirement for the heating season was only 0.035 MJ/m2°C-day (1.72 Btu/ft2°F-day).