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KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU: The Orlando Owner’s Guide
If you’re planning a home addition or ADU in Orlando and want KraftMaid cabinetry throughout, expect to invest $45,000 to $130,000 installed depending on square footage, roofline complexity, and cabinet line. We stock and install KraftMaid cabinetry for additions, garage conversions, and detached ADUs across Orange County, and we can usually start your project within two to three weeks of the written estimate. Most owners come to us because they priced the addition with a big-box installer, then realized nobody was coordinating the framing, electrical rough-in, drywall, and cabinet installation as one job. That coordination gap is where budgets balloon and timelines collapse.
We’re an independent Orlando remodeling contractor, not affiliated with KraftMaid. What that means for you is we’re free to recommend the specific KraftMaid line that fits your addition without pushing a showroom’s inventory. Trevor Nash has been walking Orlando homeowners through this exact decision for years, including several ADU projects near College Park where the 1950s-era main house dictated what the new structure could and couldn’t do.
Key Takeaways
- KraftMaid home additions and ADUs in Orlando typically run $45,000 – $130,000 installed
- Written price before any work starts, guaranteed in writing
- We handle the whole project: permits, framing, rough-in, drywall, KraftMaid cabinet installation
- 365-Day Done Right Promise covers every part of the job, including the cabinetry
- Call (850) 427-6454 for a free estimate and a real project timeline
Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To
KraftMaid builds cabinetry across three main lines: Vantage, Venicia, and KraftMaid Core (the standard full-access line). For additions and ADUs, Vantage and Core are the workhorses. Venicia is a frameless European-style line that costs more and carries longer lead times, but it gives you that clean, minimalist look many Orlando homeowners want in a modern ADU kitchen or wet bar.
The compatibility gotcha to know: KraftMaid cabinet boxes haven’t changed dimensionally in over a decade, but door hinges and drawer slides have. If you’re matching an existing KraftMaid kitchen from 2015 or earlier, the drawer glide hardware may no longer be in production, which means new drawer fronts or full drawer box replacements rather than a simple hardware swap. We check this before ordering anything, because ordering the wrong drawer configuration is a three-week delay and a restocking fee you shouldn’t have to eat.
Label location matters. Open a cabinet door and look at the inside of the cabinet box, usually on the left wall near the top hinge. You’ll see a white or silver sticker with the KraftMaid logo, the cabinet’s internal code, and the finish name. Take a clear photo of that label. It tells us more than a showroom part number ever will. For additions, we also want to know whether you’re matching an existing finish or starting fresh, because KraftMaid’s painted finishes like Dove White and Canvas have shifted slightly over production years and a new cabinet in the same named finish may not be a dead match for a 12-year-old one.
OEM versus aftermarket: KraftMaid hardware is solid, but for hinges and drawer slides we often recommend Blum or Salice equivalents for older boxes. They’re the same spec, usually cheaper, and in some cases they outlast what KraftMaid shipped originally. For door fronts, drawer fronts, and cabinet boxes themselves, there’s no aftermarket equivalent worth buying. You stay OEM there.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU Is Failing
- Drawer slides grinding or sticking. Florida humidity swells the wooden drawer boxes slightly over time. What starts as a snug drawer becomes a stuck one. The slide may be fine, but the box has warped just enough to bind. We see this constantly in unconditioned garage conversions here in Orlando.
- Hinges sagging on high-use doors. The upper cabinet doors, especially the ones near the stove, take heat and moisture abuse daily. When the hinge ears start to bend, the door hangs 1/8″ low and won’t self-close. That’s a hinge replacement, not a cabinet replacement, unless it’s been ignored for a year and the screw holes have stripped out.
- Finish delamination at lower cabinet corners. A small crack or peeling at the bottom corner of a lower cabinet near the dishwasher or sink is the first sign of water wicking into the substrate. In Orlando’s wet season, that becomes visible within one summer if the toe kick seal was never done properly.
- Soft-close feature gone dead. KraftMaid’s soft-close mechanisms use hydraulic dampers, and they do wear out. When the door starts slamming instead of easing shut, the damper cartridge has given up. It’s a $10-$25 part, but it’s annoying enough that many owners assume the whole hinge is shot.
- Shelving clips cracked or missing. The clear plastic shelf clips KraftMaid uses get brittle with age, especially in homes where attic heat bleeds into the cabinet cavities. A sagging shelf in a pantry cabinet is almost always a broken clip we can swap in ten minutes.
Replacement Cost & What’s Included
For a full addition or ADU with KraftMaid cabinetry, you’re looking at $45,000 to $130,000 in Orlando depending on square footage, foundation work, roofline complexity, and which KraftMaid line you choose. Within that, the kitchen cabinetry alone, if this is a new ADU kitchen, typically lands between $4,000 and $13,000 installed for a full run of KraftMaid Vantage or Core boxes with soft-close hardware.
What drives the number up or down: whether you need a new foundation pad (most detached ADUs do), whether the roofline ties into the existing house or stands alone, whether you’re running a new electrical subpanel or the existing service can carry the load, and how much of the finish work is custom versus off-the-shelf. Every one of those decisions changes the price, and all of them go into the written line-item estimate we give you before work starts.
Every project gets the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing. If the cabinetry or any part of the install fails inside that year, we come back and fix it at no charge. That includes the free return visit, no service call fee. The KraftMaid warranty on the boxes themselves runs separately and covers manufacturing defects, but our labor warranty covers what the factory warranty doesn’t: the installation.
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There are a few things you can check yourself before you call anyone. Pull the drawer out and look at the slide, it’s usually just two clips on each side. If the slide is intact and the drawer box is straight, the problem is the glide adjustment, not the hardware. Wipe down the hinge with a dry cloth and see if the sag disappears, sometimes it’s just grease and sawdust packed into the hinge knuckle.
What you shouldn’t do is start pulling cabinet boxes off walls or attempting to reframe an opening between rooms to create the addition space. Load-bearing wall removal is genuinely dangerous and it’s one of the most common ways Orlando homeowners hurt themselves or damage their homes during an addition project. If the wall runs perpendicular to your ceiling joists, it’s carrying roof or floor load, and removing it without proper temporary support can drop a section of your house. That’s not a repair, that’s a structural failure waiting to happen.
For drawer and hinge repairs on existing cabinets, a competent homeowner can handle many of them. For the addition itself, that’s a licensed contractor’s job, and we say that as the people who pull the permits, schedule the inspections, and stand behind the work. Call us at (850) 427-6454 and we’ll give you the number first, then pick up the tool.
FAQs
Plan on 4 to 8 months from permit approval to final inspection for a full addition or detached ADU in Orlando. The cabinet installation portion of that is typically the last two to three weeks, once drywall is painted and floors are in. Permits with Orange County are usually the longest single wait, so we submit those the day you sign the written estimate.
Yes, as long as the cabinet line is still in production and we can photograph the label inside the cabinet box. Painted finishes from different production years can shift slightly, so if you have a 12-year-old kitchen and you’re adding a matching island, we may recommend a very light refinish of the old cabinet faces so everything reads as one kitchen. It costs a few hundred dollars extra and it’s usually worth it. Call (850) 427-6454 and we’ll assess the match before you order anything.
Not unless you change the scope or we open a wall and find something no contractor could have predicted, like rotted framing behind the existing wall you’re tying into. That’s the only scenario where a written estimate gets revised, and we show you exactly what we found before anyone does more work. The number on day one is the number on the invoice for everything in the original scope, full stop.
Yes. We pull all building permits, schedule every inspection, and handle the Orange County requirements for ADUs, including setbacks, lot coverage, and the separate electrical service if it’s required. We also install KraftMaid cabinetry as part of the permitted scope, so the cabinets are inspected as part of the final. Call (850) 427-6454 for a free estimate that includes the permit timeline.
Call Penhallow Remodeling Orlando for Your KraftMaid Addition or ADU
We’re a local Orlando remodeling company that puts the written price and the 365-Day Done Right Promise in front of you before a single cabinet is ordered. We also work with Cambria, Silestone, and Kohler products when the project calls for countertops and fixtures to match the cabinetry. A real person answers our phone 24/7, and the technicians who show up at your door are background-checked and in uniform. Call (850) 427-6454 to schedule your free estimate and get a real number for your KraftMaid home addition or ADU in Orlando.
Written by Trevor Nash, Owner, Penhallow Remodeling Orlando at Penhallow Remodeling Orlando, serving Orlando and nearby areas.
