House Umbria

Nobody plays eccentrics better than Maggie Smith. She was hilarious as the uptight kind in “Gosford Park,” and she is touching as the lonely kind in “My House in Umbria,” an HBO movie premiering ...

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My House in Umbria is a 2003 HBO made-for-television movie, based on the novella of the same name by William Trevor and published along with another novella in the volume Two Lives. The film stars ...

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"My House in Umbria" is a superb adaptation of William Trevor's novella about four strangers who bond in an Italian villa following a terrorist attack. This HBO production, world-preemed at Santa ...

we are looking at buying a house that has a stone fireplace in the living room and a place in the basement to connect a woodstove, the house is 1456 sq ft on one floor and the basement is same sq. footage and completely open. was wondering if placing a woodstove in the basement wood supply...

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Hey guys, So I have a very small house in Western MA (main floor just under 900sq ft + walkout basement/built in garage which will not be heated, about 700sq ft of basement that will be heated). I have all electric baseboard heat on my main floor and my basement has a non-functioning gas stove...

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You can try bracing it to the house by attaching steel brackets of some sort to the chimney and structure of the house to buy you a year, maybe, but even then i wouldnt want a couple 2x4's to hold up thousands of pounds of brick and masonry. Is there just that one flue in the chimney?