Karina Waters
Vogue

Château dreams are helping this Vogue editor endure quarantine in an NYC apartment

Vogue
Karina Waters
La Gazette du Patrimoine

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La Gazette du Patrimoine
Karina Waters
Vogue

Vogue creates this behind the scenes travel diary for clothing company Dôen’s journey to the Château de Gudanes

Vogue
Karina Waters
Cire Trudon

The world’s oldest candlemaker Cire Trudon discovers the magic of candlelight in the Château de Gudanes

Cire Trudon
Karina Waters
World of Interiors

Château de Gudanes was featured in The World of Interiors Decoration Special - October 2019 issue, in collaboration with Cire Trudon, the world’s oldest candlemaker.

World of Interiors

Upworthy | This castle is something to behold, but its renovation is so much more than merely beautiful.

Upworthy | This castle is something to behold, but its renovation is so much more than merely beautiful.

This chateau was designed by Ange-Jacques Gabriel, the same architect who designed Marie Antoinette's personal mini-chateau, the Petit Trianon, and parts of Place de la Concorde in Paris. Beautiful, right?

La Croix | Une aventure australienne au château de Gudanes

La Croix | Une aventure australienne au château de Gudanes

La montagne. Les Pyrénées ariégeoises, partout où le regard se pose, reines d’un exceptionnel panoramique à 380°. Le point de vue saisit Karina et Craig Waters, accompagnés de leurs deux enfants Jasmine et Ben, quand ils passent les grilles du château de Gudanes ce beau jour de 2011...

Today | 'An inexplicable connection': Couple drawn to renovate breathtaking French château

Today | 'An inexplicable connection': Couple drawn to renovate breathtaking French château

Memorial Day weekend is coming up, and many families will spend a few hours doing minor fix-ups on their homes to spruce them up for the summer months. Karina and Craig Waters, meanwhile, will spend theirs continuing the renovation of a breathtaking château in rural France...

Gourmet Traveller | Château de Gudanes

Gourmet Traveller | Château de Gudanes

May 11, 2015 - One Australian family's dream of restoring a French countryside château is becoming a reality with a little help from some friends.

Karina Waters and her husband, Craig, bought the magnificent mid-1700s Château de Gudanes just outside Toulouse in 2013 and, faced with the mammoth renovation task at hand they decided to open the house to a series of onsite fine-art restoration workshops.

Daily Mail | Grand re-designs! The 18th century French chateau with dozens of rooms, impossibly high ceilings and a spiralling staircase being restored by an Australian family

Daily Mail | Grand re-designs! The 18th century French chateau with dozens of rooms, impossibly high ceilings and a spiralling staircase being restored by an Australian family

An Australian family have given up their life in the suburbs and instead moved halfway across the world to take on an enormous and unusual task.

Elle Décor | MEET THE AMBITIOUS COUPLE REMODELING A 94-ROOM, 18TH-CENTURY CHÂTEAU

Elle Décor | MEET THE AMBITIOUS COUPLE REMODELING A 94-ROOM, 18TH-CENTURY CHÂTEAU

The story starts like this: Karina and Craig Waters were toying with the thought of buying a rural farmhouse in the the South of France. After years of casually searching, they came across an 18th-century abandoned château for sale online that was the deal of a lifetime. But, there was a catch! 

Huffington Post | An Abandoned French Chateau Is Getting The Makeover Of A Lifetime

Huffington Post | An Abandoned French Chateau Is Getting The Makeover Of A Lifetime

It takes a certain type of bravery to purchase a fixer-up, and Karina and Craig Waters have lots of it. The Australian couple's 2013 purchase isn't your average home improvement job -- it's a study in reconstruction, rural living and Europe's 18th-century religious wars.

This Is Glamorous | A Renovation Diary : Chateau de Gudanes, South of France

April 1, 2014 - DO YOU REMEMBER this article about La Socelière, a 17th-century château in the Loire Valley that was purchased by an Italian couple and extensively renovated? Today, there is another such specular story, this time, about an Australian couple, who, in November of last year, purchased the Chateau de Gudanes, a 1700’s chateau in the tiny village of Chateau Verdun, in the south of France . . .