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KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU: The Miami Owner’s Guide
If you’re planning a home addition or ADU in Miami and want KraftMaid cabinetry built into the design, we install and service KraftMaid across full additions, garage conversions, and accessory dwelling units. A complete home addition with KraftMaid finishes typically runs $53,100 to $153,400 in Miami depending on square footage, foundation work, permitting, and cabinet line selection. You’ll usually know it’s time to call when you’re staring at a failed permit inspection, a cracked foundation tie-in, or cabinet boxes that arrived warped from humidity before install day. Here’s the full picture.
Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To
KraftMaid builds cabinetry lines that show up in kitchens, baths, laundry rooms, and wet bars inside Miami additions and ADUs. The two lines we work with most are KraftMaid Vantage and KraftMaid Venicia. Vantage is the broader line, with framed and frameless construction across hundreds of door styles and finishes. Venicia is the European-style frameless line, which matters in smaller ADU kitchens because frameless boxes give you about 15% more usable interior space per cabinet run. That’s a real number worth knowing when you’re laying out a 10-foot galley kitchen in a 400-square-foot ADU.
Identifying the right part on an existing KraftMaid install comes down to the cabinet box label. Every KraftMaid cabinet ships with a white sticker inside the top drawer or on the back panel showing the cabinet number, door style, and finish code. If the sticker is gone, measure the box width in 3-inch increments, because KraftMaid builds in 3-inch modular sizing, and match the door profile against their current catalog. For OEM versus aftermarket: KraftMaid doors, drawer fronts, and hinges are worth buying OEM when you’re matching an existing finish. Aftermarket soft-close hardware, drawer glides, and adjustable feet are fine and often better priced. One compatibility gotcha in Miami: KraftMaid thermofoil doors, the ones that look like a seamless vinyl wrap, fail faster in un-air-conditioned spaces. ADU kitchens and garage-conversion wet bars without dedicated AC see the foil separate from the MDF core within 3 to 5 years. If the space won’t be climate-controlled, order painted wood or laminate doors instead. We learned that one the expensive way and we pass it on for free.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU Is Failing
- Cabinet doors won’t stay closed or hang crooked. Hinges wear out from humidity cycling, and in Miami that cycling happens year-round. A door that won’t close is usually a hinge adjustment first, hinge replacement second, and a warped door third.
- Drawer boxes sag or bind when opened. The undermount glides KraftMaid uses are rated for 75 to 100 pounds. Overloaded ADU kitchen drawers, especially the pot-and-pan drawer, kill the glide within a few years. Replacement is straightforward.
- Finish blistering or peeling on lower cabinets. This is almost always water exposure from plumbing leaks, mop splash, or condensation from a nearby dishwasher. The fix is finding the water source before the cabinet box swells past the point of repair.
- Shelves bowed in the middle. Adjustable shelves have a real weight limit, and storing heavy canned goods or small appliances on a long shelf run will bow it permanently. Sagging shelves are a cheap parts fix. A bowed cabinet side panel is not.
- Soft-close mechanisms slamming shut. The damper inside the hinge or glide has failed. These can be swapped individually without replacing the whole hinge, which keeps the cost down on larger kitchen additions.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
Here’s what we tell Miami homeowners to budget. A full home addition with KraftMaid cabinetry lands between $53,100 and $153,400 depending on the size of the addition and how much cabinetry goes in. An ADU runs $106,200 to $259,600 all in. If you’re keeping the addition shell and only replacing or retrofitting KraftMaid components, specific line items look like this:
- Cabinet installation (new): $4,720 to $15,340
- Countertop installation: $2,360 to $7,670
- Kitchen island installation: $3,540 to $11,800
- Full kitchen remodel inside an addition or ADU: $16,520 to $53,100
- Bathroom vanity installation: $945 to $3,540
Every quote from us is in writing before work starts. That price includes the parts, the labor, and the crew, and it does not change unless you change scope. If we find something unexpected when we open the wall, we stop, show you, and give you a number before anything else gets touched. Our work on KraftMaid cabinetry is covered under our 365-Day Done Right Promise. If the work isn’t right within a year, we come back and make it right at no cost to you.
DIY or Call Us?
Cabinet and addition work is not high-tension dangerous like a garage spring, but it can get expensive fast when a homeowner starts pulling base cabinets without checking what runs behind them. In a Miami addition or ADU, you’re often looking at exterior walls with stucco, furring strips, and electrical pulled close to the surface. A homeowner can safely check cabinet labels, measure box widths, tighten visible hinge screws, and look for water staining. What we’d keep in professional hands: removing any cabinet on an exterior wall, relocating plumbing or electrical, and structural work on the addition itself. Foundation tie-ins, roof framing, and permitting need a licensed contractor. One thing we see often: somebody’s brother-in-law framed a garage conversion without pulling permits, and the first time the county catches it, the homeowner pays double to untangle it. Don’t be that house. Call (850) 780-8123 and we’ll walk the site with you before you spend a dollar.
FAQs
Boxes and doors made from real wood or plywood-core construction last 20 to 30 years in a climate-controlled Miami addition. Thermofoil doors in an unconditioned space fail in 3 to 5 years. If you’re building an ADU without full AC, order painted or laminate doors instead. Call (850) 780-8123 and we’ll spec the right line for your build.
Hinges, drawer glides, shelf pins, and soft-close dampers can be repaired by swapping parts. A water-swollen cabinet box or a warped door usually cannot be saved. The answer depends on what failed, and that’s a five-minute inspection once we see it in person. Estimates are free.
A cabinet replacement inside an existing kitchen takes one to two working days. A full home addition with KraftMaid finishes runs two to six months depending on scope, permitting, and Miami’s inspection calendar. A garage conversion to ADU typically runs six to ten weeks. We give you the schedule in writing with the price.
We stock common replacement hardware on our trucks: hinges, soft-close dampers, glide assemblies, shelf pins, and door bumpers. Finished doors and panels are ordered per job because they’re matched to your specific finish code. Order time on doors is usually two to three weeks. We also carry components for Cambria, Silestone, and Kohler projects, so you’re not running down parts from four different suppliers.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner, Mason Remodeling Co Miami at Mason Remodeling Co Miami, serving Miami and nearby areas.
