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KraftMaid Bathroom Remodeling: The Fort Lauderdale Owner’s Guide
KraftMaid bathroom remodeling in Fort Lauderdale typically runs $9,000 to $28,000 installed, depending on whether you’re refreshing a vanity and fixtures or gutting the room to the studs. Most jobs involving existing KraftMaid cabinetry fall between $12,000 and $18,000 when we’re keeping the cabinets and rebuilding around them. You usually discover something’s wrong the same way everyone does: a drawer front pulls loose, a vanity door won’t close square anymore, or water has been quietly working its way into the toe kick and now the cabinet bottom feels soft.
We see KraftMaid bathrooms all over Fort Lauderdale, from Victoria Park condos to Rio Vista homes built in the 1970s. The cabinets hold up well, but South Florida humidity tests everything, and the failure points are predictable. We tell you what we found, what it takes to fix it, and what it will cost, before we touch a thing.
Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To
We work on the full KraftMaid cabinetry line: the Vantage series, the standard KraftMaid line, and the older cabinets that were sold through big-box retailers before the current series lineup. The compatibility gotcha most homeowners hit is hinge spacing. KraftMaid switched from a 35mm cup hinge with a 1/2-inch overlay to their current 1/4-inch overlay hardware on several door styles, and the older hinge plates do not line up with the new door drilling. You can spot which you have by measuring from the door edge to the screw hole pattern on the hinge plate. If the holes are closer to the edge, it’s the older hardware, and mixing new doors with old plates is how people end up with doors that look drunk a week after installation.
The other thing to know: KraftMaid cabinet boxes are plywood on the current line, but many Fort Lauderdale homes built before 2005 have the older particleboard boxes. Particleboard and South Florida humidity are a bad marriage. If the bottom panel of a sink base has swollen, that’s almost always the story. OEM replacement parts from KraftMaid work, but for common items like soft-close hinges and drawer glides, we use Blum or Grass equivalents that match the spec and often outlast the original hardware in our climate. For door and drawer fronts matching an existing finish, OEM is the only sane route, because a cherry stain from 2012 and a cherry stain from 2025 are not the same color, and the sunlight through a bathroom window will prove it within months.
How to Identify Your KraftMaid Line
- Label check: KraftMaid prints a code on the inside of cabinet boxes or the back of drawers. The current Vantage line uses a “VN” prefix. Older lines use different formats, and a photo of that label saves us a service call.
- Door drilling pattern: As above, measure the hinge plate screw spacing. It tells us which hardware generation you have before we order anything.
- Finish name: If you have the original order paperwork, the finish name is printed on it. If not, a drawer front photo in daylight gets us close enough to start.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your KraftMaid Bathroom Remodeling Is Failing
- Drawer glides grinding or sticking. The nylon rollers in older glides wear flat and start skating instead of rolling. In Fort Lauderdale, salt air accelerates the corrosion on the metal track, especially in bathrooms near the Intracoastal.
- Door hinges sagging or loose. The screw holes in particleboard stiles strip over time, and once the hinge plate wobbles, the door starts rubbing the frame. That’s a hinge cup or stile repair, not a door replacement, usually.
- Soft-close feature dead. The damper inside the hinge or glide fails, and the door slams instead of easing shut. It’s a small part, but the slam puts stress on the hinge plate, and the problem grows.
- Water staining or swelling at the cabinet base. Toe kicks in Fort Lauderdale bathrooms take splash after splash, and once moisture gets inside the laminate edge, the particleboard swells and stays swollen. The fix is a toe kick rebuild plus a bead of sealant done right.
- Finish fading or peeling near the vanity. UV through a south-facing window fades cabinet fronts unevenly. The finish isn’t failing everywhere, just on the surfaces that see sun, and matching it requires a real finisher, not a touch-up pen.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
In Fort Lauderdale, a KraftMaid bathroom remodel ranges $9,000 to $28,000 installed. The low end covers a vanity replacement with a standard top, new faucet, and a fresh mirror. The high end is a full bathroom gut: waterproofed walk-in shower, new KraftMaid cabinetry, tile work, lighting, and plumbing moved if needed. If you’re keeping existing KraftMaid cabinets and rebuilding the room around them, figure $12,000 to $18,000 depending on tile choices and shower scope.
What’s included in our price: every part, every labor hour, the permit, the haul-away, and the written guarantee. There’s no “parts extra” surprise, no change order because the drain line turned out to be cast iron from 1968 and needed more work. We write the price before we start, and we stand behind it. The workmanship warranty runs 365 days from completion. If something fails within that year, we come back and make it right at no charge. That’s the Done Right Promise, and it applies to every bathroom remodel we do in Fort Lauderdale.
DIY or Call Us?
You can safely check a few things yourself: the hinge plate screw tightness, whether drawer glides are visibly bent, whether the cabinet base feels soft when you press it. Those checks cost nothing and give you good information. What you shouldn’t do is pull cabinet boxes out of a bathroom wall without knowing what’s behind them. Plumbing shutoff valves, electrical that was run through the vanity void in some older Fort Lauderdale condos, and tile backer that’s holding more weight than it looks like, all live back there. And if the cabinet is hanging on the wall beneath a granite or quartz top, that’s a two-person job with a real risk of the top coming down hard.
If you’ve found failing hardware or water damage in a KraftMaid bathroom in Fort Lauderdale, call us at (754) 354-3720. We’ll take a look, tell you what we found and what it takes to fix it, and give you a written price. No pressure, no drama, no surprise invoice at the end.
FAQs
KraftMaid plywood boxes typically last 20 to 30 years in a Fort Lauderdale bathroom if the finish stays intact and water never penetrates the cabinet base. Particleboard boxes in a humid, splash-heavy bathroom often start failing around 10 to 15 years, especially near the toe kick and sink base.
Yes, in most cases we can repair a damaged KraftMaid cabinet rather than replace it. Door and drawer front refinishing, hinge plate repair, glide replacement, and toe kick rebuilds are all common fixes we do. The exceptions are severe water swelling, delaminating boxes, or structurally compromised frames. Call (754) 354-3720 and send a few photos before you decide.
A vanity-and-fixture refresh can be done in 3 to 5 working days. A full KraftMaid bathroom remodel with a tiled walk-in shower typically takes 3 to 5 weeks in Fort Lauderdale, depending on permit timing and material lead times. We’ll give you a written schedule before work starts.
We stock the common hardware on our trucks: Blum and Grass replacement hinges, soft-close glides, drawer slides, and mounting plates that match KraftMaid specs. For finish-matched doors, drawer fronts, or complete cabinet boxes, we order OEM parts straight from KraftMaid, and we can also source Cambria and Silestone surfaces, plus Kohler fixtures, in the same job.
No. We write the price before a single tool is unpacked, and that’s the price. The only time a number changes is if you ask us to add scope that wasn’t in the original plan. We don’t do change orders you didn’t ask for, and we don’t do surprises at the end.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner, Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale at Mason Remodeling Co Fort Lauderdale, serving Fort Lauderdale and nearby areas.
