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KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU: The Fort Worth Owner’s Guide
We install and service KraftMaid cabinetry across home additions and ADU projects throughout Fort Worth, with most full additions running $45,000 to $130,000 depending on scope and finish level. The KraftMaid part most owners call us about isn’t a single hinge or drawer slide. It’s a full cabinet run, a wall of uppers, or a peninsula base that has to come out, get rebuilt, or get matched when walls move. You usually discover the failure the same way: you open a door on a new addition and the reveal is off, or the drawer face sits crooked against a floor that settled, or the finish on a cabinet end panel doesn’t match the rest of the run because moisture got behind it during the first summer. That’s the call we get. And we answer it with a written scope and a firm number before any tools come off the truck.
Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To
KraftMaid builds cabinet lines in standard increments: 9-, 12-, 15-, 18-, 21-, 24-, 30-, 33-, 36-, and 42-inch widths for wall and base cabinets, with heights running 30, 36, and 42 inches on uppers and 34.5 inches on bases before countertop. That matters because a Fort Worth addition that moves an exterior wall even two inches can turn a 33-inch cabinet bay into a 31-inch opening. The old cabinet does not go back in. You reorder or you rebuild. We match KraftMaid’s standard door profiles, including the raised-panel and slab options from the current catalog, and we identify the existing line off the hinge stamp, the drawer-box construction, and the finish code inside the sink base. One KraftMaid-specific gotcha worth knowing: the brand has shifted door hinge boring patterns across manufacturing years, and if you try to hang a new door on an old box or vice versa, the reveal will never sit right. We’ve seen it on additions in Arlington Heights and Benbrook where a homeowner bought a single door to match and discovered the boring center was off by 3 millimeters. Cheap part, expensive callout.
KraftMaid is one name we work with weekly, along with Cambria, Silestone, and Kohler surfaces and fixtures. We’re an independent Fort Worth remodeling company. We are not a KraftMaid dealer or factory rep, but we have installed enough of their cabinetry to know exactly where their catalog tolerances live and where the aftermarket equivalents hold up. In most cases, matched OEM doors and panels are the right call for an addition or ADU because the finish batch and the stile width match what’s already on the wall. On a full rebuild, we will price both OEM and aftermarket drawer boxes so you can decide with numbers in front of you.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU Is Failing
- Doors that stick or rub on a new addition. This usually means the floor or the wall framing has moved since the cabinets went in. Fort Worth’s clay soil expands and contracts hard with rain and drought, and a slab addition that was dead level in March can be out by a half-inch in September.
- Finish peeling or clouding on end panels. The heat and humidity we get from May through September push moisture behind the thermofoil on KraftMaid end panels, especially on exterior walls in unconditioned ADU spaces. Once the film lifts, it does not lay back down.
- Drawer boxes racked or pulling apart at the dovetail. KraftMaid’s older soft-close boxes were good, but the undermount slides can bind if the cabinet was shimmed to fix an unlevel floor. The drawer fights the slide every cycle until the joint fails.
- Gaps at the scribe or at the wall run. This often shows up where an addition meets the original house. The settling point is exactly that seam, and a cabinet run that straddles it will open a visible gap at the top scribe over the first year.
- Hinges pulling out of the face frame or the side panel. If the cabinet was hung into drywall without hitting studs, or wall framing shifted, the hinge screws lose purchase and the door drops. You’ll see the door sagging toward the corner where it catches.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
In Fort Worth, a full home addition with a kitchen or wet bar included runs $45,000 to $130,000 depending on linear feet of cabinetry, countertop material, and whether we’re opening a load-bearing wall. A standalone ADU with a full kitchen and bath starts around $90,000 and can pass $220,000 for a detached unit with separate utility connections. If you’re just replacing or retrofitting the KraftMaid cabinets inside an existing addition, count on $4,000 to $13,000 for a standard run of wall and base cabinets, plus $2,000 to $6,500 for countertops if the old tops come out. Every quote we write includes the line-item cost of each cabinet box, door, panel, hinge, slide, and the labor to hang, shim, level, and adjust. No lump-sum number you have to trust. No price that changes when the crew arrives. The written price is the price, and all our work carries the 365-Day Done Right Promise: if it fails inside a year, we come back and correct it at no charge.
DIY or Call Us?
You can safely check a few things yourself: read the finish code sticker inside a drawer box, measure the cabinet widths at the face frame, and note whether the reveal is even from top to bottom. That information helps us match or price parts over the phone. What you should not do is try to re-hang a full cabinet run, move a peninsula, or remove a load-bearing wall to adjust the layout. Cabinets are heavy, and a run that comes off the wall brings drywall anchors, crown, and sometimes electrical with it. If the failure is a dropped door or a cracked drawer box, it’s often a one-visit fix and we likely have the slide or hinge on the truck. If it’s a full run that’s out of level because the addition settled, that’s a re-scope and a written number for the fix. Curtis Lane has pulled enough failed DIY cabinets out of Fort Worth houses to know the difference between a $40 hinge swap and a $4,000 rebuild. Call (682) 204-4897 and we’ll tell you which one you’ve got.
FAQs
KraftMaid box construction typically holds up 15 to 20 years in our climate, but hinges and drawer slides usually need replacement around the 8- to 12-year mark, sooner if the space runs humid or if the slab has moved. Call (682) 204-4897 for an honest assessment of yours.
Yes, if the box is solid and the finish is intact, we can replace hinges, slides, door fronts, and drawer boxes without touching the rest of the run, which usually keeps the job under $1,500. If the cabinet is racked or the finish is failed, repair money is wasted and replacement is the cheaper long-term fix. Call (682) 204-4897 to have us look.
A hinge or slide replacement is a one-day job. A drawer box or door order takes two to four weeks depending on finish matching, and a full cabinet run inside an addition is typically three to five working days once the parts are on site. Call (682) 204-4897 and we’ll give you a dated scope, not a window.
We stock common soft-close hinges, undermount slides, bumpers, and fasteners in standard KraftMaid configurations, plus shims and scribe stock for Fort Worth’s typical settling issues. Full doors, boxes, and panels are ordered to match your exact finish code. Call (682) 204-4897 and we’ll check your part against the truck before we schedule the visit.
Written by Curtis Lane, Owner, Bradford Remodeling Co Fort Worth at Bradford Remodeling Co Fort Worth, serving Fort Worth and nearby areas.
