Karina describes the day she saw the Chateau de Gudanes in the town of Château-Verdun in the Ariège department. They flew to Paris and drove 700km to view it. An unrenovated chateau in the Midi-Pyrénées area that looked like something out of a fairy tale. Karina says they were all “renovated, clean and neat, ticking the box for a quiet life”. She returned to Perth “frankly disappointed”, her ideal home would be more “shabby chic, rustic, petit chateau style” and she hadn’t seen anything that came even near that description.Ī year after the first trip, Karina and Craig returned to France, they had all but given up on the search but their 16 year old son Ben had seen a property on the internet that caused them to miss a heartbeat.
Karina and Craig spent a week looking at the houses their friends had chosen.
They had lots of French friends who on their first viewing trip in the region of the Dordogne did their best to come up with ideas for “what would suit an Australian family”. Karina Waters is from Perth, Western Australia where, in what “feels like a previous life now” she worked in corporate and tax accounting and lived with her husband Craig, a surgeon and their two children. In 2011 Karina and Craig decided to buy a home in France. How many of us dream of owning and renovating a French chateau? A palace that was lived in by French aristocrats, where the rich, powerful and famous partied and where every room reveals a story from the past? Sometimes dreams do come true – read how a couple from Australia fell in love with an abandoned, unloved castle they saw on the internet and are bringing the incredible 94 room Chateau de Gudanes back to life…
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