Adam Dovile
You still can’t wipe the smile from the affable chippie who won season 2 of House Rules with his wife Lisa in 2014. Mortgage-free and joining the Better Homes and Gardens team a year later as their resident builder, it’s fair to say that Adam’s grin isn’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Adam struck an instant connection with Australian television viewers winning the fan-voted 2016 Logie award for Best New Talent.
Growing up in Melbourne with a hard-working Italian family, Adam spent his younger years working in his parents’ pizza shop. Spending all his savings on his pride and joy – his beloved ED Ford – would soon be the wake-up call he needed.
At 18, Adam was involved in a road accident that destroyed his car. “I’d been saving since I was 13 to buy my dream car and I was very lucky to walk away from the crash with no one injured except for my finances,” explains Adam.
From that moment he resolved to complete a carpentry apprenticeship, continue working in the family pizza shop and become a delivery boy for a florist on the weekends. All these savings would be put towards a wiser investment – his first house.
Adam credits his carpentry career to an unlikely mentor. In high school he loved working with his hands and enjoyed doing work experience with a mechanic. It was the mechanic’s advice that changed Adam’s career path. “He said to me, ‘Is there anything you love just as much as mechanics?’ I responded: ‘Carpentry.’ He suggested I am better off following that career as the mechanics business is changing,” Adam recalls.
With so much good fortune coming their way, Adam and Lisa decided to give back and joined the charity Habitat for Humanity. Under the charity’s guidance, they travelled to Nepal last year to assist in building houses for up to 40 families living in a slum community. “This project in Nepal empowered struggling families, via a tiny interest free loan, to own their homes. It instils pride and relief for families who get a roof over their heads that they own.”
Adam is a Collingwood football tragic and thanks to Lisa he has discovered the joys of being a dog owner to their cavoodle, Buckley. “I never thought I’d own a dog but the little bugger has won my heart.”
Better Homes and Gardens has received a record 12 Silver Logie awards for Australia’s Most Popular Lifestyle Program.
