KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU Nationwide

KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU: The Los Angeles Owner’s Guide

If you’re planning a home addition or ADU in Los Angeles and want KraftMaid cabinetry in it, you’re looking at $53,100 – $153,400 for a full addition, or $106,200 – $259,600 for a detached ADU, installed and finished with KraftMaid’s full-access or framed cabinet lines. The real story is this: KraftMaid doesn’t make a “home addition kit.” It makes the cabinetry, trim, and storage components that go into the addition. What you’re actually buying is the planning, framing, systems, drywall, and finish work, with KraftMaid as the visible layer that ties it all together. Most Los Angeles homeowners find out their addition plan has a problem when the cabinet specs don’t match the wall dimensions, or when the floor plan shifts after permits and suddenly the KraftMaid run they ordered doesn’t fit the built space.

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Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To

KraftMaid builds cabinets in two broad families that matter for additions and ADUs: framed and frameless (full-access). Framed cabinets have a face frame around the front opening, which gives you a more traditional look and slightly more forgiveness if your walls aren’t perfectly plumb. Full-access cabinets skip the face frame, so you get wider drawer and shelf openings, and the tolerances are tighter. What this means in a Los Angeles addition is simple: if your framed walls are off by even 3/8 inch over a run, a full-access KraftMaid line will show it in the reveal gaps. The veneer and finish lines, like the Vantage and Bria lines, cover a wide range of wood species and painted finishes, but KraftMaid’s higher-end lines specify a 1/16-inch tolerance on cabinet-to-cabinet alignment. For a hillside ADU in Mount Washington or an older Craftsman addition in Highland Park, that tolerance is the difference between a tight job and visible gaps. We are an independent service provider, not affiliated with KraftMaid, and we stock a range of KraftMaid hardware, hinges, and touch-up products on our trucks for warranty callbacks and adjustment visits.

Signs Your KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU Is Failing

• Cabinet doors drift out of alignment within weeks of install. This usually means the wall framing behind the cabinet has shifted, or the cabinet was hung on drywall without hitting studs. In Los Angeles, the flex in older stick-framed homes from seasonal temperature swings causes this more than people expect.
• Drawer glides bind or spit the drawer out. KraftMaid full-access drawers ride on undermount glides rated for 75 to 100 pounds. If the glide was installed on an out-of-level cabinet box, it’ll fail at that load. The fix is reracking the box, not greasing the glide.
• Visible gaps appear between the countertop and the cabinet run. This is a framing or slab issue, not a cabinet defect. If the addition’s floor is out of level by more than 1/4 inch over ten feet, the countertop can’t sit flat on the cabinets, and the gap reads as a KraftMaid problem.
• Soft-close hinges stop catching. KraftMaid’s soft-close hinges are adjustable, but once they’ve been forced past their travel, the internal spring mechanism fails. We see this on pantry cabinets and pots-and-pans drawers that get slammed repeatedly.
• Finish chipping at the toe kick or lower door edges. In Los Angeles, this almost always traces back to moisture wicking up from slab floors, especially in ADUs built on a slab with no vapor barrier. The finish fails because the substrate is swelling, not because the KraftMaid finish is weak.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

For a full home addition with KraftMaid cabinetry included, you’re at $53,100 to $153,400 in Los Angeles. A detached ADU runs $106,200 to $259,600. What drives the range: the size of the space, whether you’re on a slab or raised foundation, the KraftMaid line you choose (framed is generally less expensive than full-access in the same finish), and how much structural work the existing house needs. Our written price includes the KraftMaid cabinetry, installation, delivery, hardware and adjustments, and it covers the finished space, not just the cabinet runs. We don’t give you a range and then bill you more later. The number on your written estimate is the number you pay, and our 365-Day Done Right Promise covers the work in writing. If a cabinet door sags, a drawer sticks, or a hinge fails inside that year, we come back and fix it at no charge.

DIY or Call Us?

You can check a few things yourself without touching a tool: look under the sink for water staining, press on the cabinet sides to feel for movement, and open every door to see which ones bind. You should not try to rehang a KraftMaid upper cabinet, reroute a drawer glide, or shim a run that’s out of level. Once a loaded cabinet comes off the wall, it’s a real safety issue, and the damage from a dropped cabinet is worse than any labor cost you’d save. Give me the whole picture first, then we pick up the tools. If you’re in Los Angeles and the cabinets in your addition or ADU aren’t sitting right, call (936) 259-2607 and we’ll come look at it.

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