Adam Dovile is the affable chippie who won Season 2 of House Rules with his wife Lisa in 2014. The following year Adam joined the Better Homes and Gardens team as their resident builder. Adam was an instant success on BH&G winning the fan-voted Logie award for Best New Talent.

Off screen, Adam has continued to run Building projects via his business ASD Constructions as this is his passion. 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 Adam 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.