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KraftMaid Kitchen Remodeling: The Fort Lauderdale Owner’s Guide

KraftMaid kitchen remodeling in Fort Lauderdale typically runs $14,000 to $45,000 installed, and we can usually begin the process with a call this week. If you’re on this page, you likely have a KraftMaid kitchen that is failing in some specific way: a cabinet door hinge that no longer holds, a drawer glide that sticks or falls, a finish that’s lifting near the dishwasher from years of heat and humidity, or a layout that simply fought you one too many times this morning. We stock KraftMaid-compatible parts, work directly with cabinetry suppliers, and give you a written price before anything gets unbolted. Isaac Pruett runs our Fort Lauderdale shop and has spent the better part of two decades pulling apart South Florida kitchens – many of them in Victoria Park, Coral Ridge, and Rio Vista – so we know what KraftMaid product holds up here and what does not.

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Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To

KraftMaid has sold cabinetry through big-box and independent dealers for decades under several construction lines, and the compatibility of replacement parts depends almost entirely on the series and the year. Veneer-faced cabinet boxes, typically their more budget-conscious lines, use different hinge cup sizes and drawer-glide mounting than their all-plywood or custom-paint lines. The quick identification on site: open a drawer and look for a barcode sticker on the inside wall or underside, which carries the order number and often the door style name. If there is no sticker, measure the hinge cup diameter. Modern KraftMaid hinges are nearly always 35mm, but some cabinet boxes from the late 1990s used 26mm cups that no longer accept the current hardware without drilling. KraftMaid also uses both framed and full-overlay door styles within the same year range, so the hinge plate offset matters more than the brand name on the hinge. We carry multiple offsets on the truck for exactly this reason. One more gotcha worth knowing before you order hardware yourself: KraftMaid’s veneer finishes have shifted dye lots over the years, and a door you order today in a 2012 “Sable” or “Maple Natural” will not match a sun-aged door from 2012 sitting in a Fort Lauderdale kitchen window for twelve years.

Signs Your KraftMaid Kitchen Remodeling Is Failing

• Soft-close hinges that slam the last inch. The hydraulic piston inside the hinge has worn out, which is gradual and then sudden, and the door no longer catches quietly. Replacing the hinge is straightforward; it means the hinge itself, not the cabinet box, has reached its service life.
• Drawers that shudder or bind halfway open. South Florida humidity swells and contracts the wood drawer boxes, and eventually the undermount glides lose their sync. You’ll feel a hard stop or a pull to one side; this is a glide failure or a drawer box that has moved out of square.
• Finish lifting or peeling at the base cabinets near the dishwasher, sink, or refrigerator. This is the big humidity tell in Fort Lauderdale. KraftMaid’s veneered lines are pressure-sensitive at the edges, and once moisture gets under that edge tape, it delaminates in sheets rather than flakes.
• Cabinet doors that will not stay aligned no matter how many times you adjust the hinge screws. This usually means the hinge plate has stripped out of the particleboard core. The fix is not a longer screw; it is a hinge-plate repair insert or moving the hinge location, which changes the overlay slightly.
• A corner cabinet or sink base that has dropped so the door rubs the frame or the counter. The cabinet box itself has settled out of square, which can happen when the original installer shimmed it poorly or the subfloor in an older Fort Lauderdale home has moved. The parts may be fine; the box is the problem.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

A full KraftMaid kitchen remodel in Fort Lauderdale runs $14,000 to $45,000 depending on cabinet count, cabinet construction line, and what has to come out before the new goes in. Cabinet installation alone, when the boxes are supplied and we handle removal, leveling, and hardware, runs $4,000 to $13,000. Countertop installation runs $2,000 to $6,500, a backsplash $800 to $2,500, and a kitchen island starts near $3,000 and runs toward $10,000 if we are building out the base, plumbing, and electrical. What drives the range fastest is whether we are repairing and reusing your existing boxes or replacing them entirely, and whether any floor or wall repair has to happen after demo. We write every Fort Lauderdale kitchen job as a line-item price, parts and labor separated, and we do not let the number move once you have approved it. Our work includes the 365-Day Done Right Promise in writing from the start: 365 days from completion, if the work is not right, we make it right at no cost to you.

DIY or Call Us?

You can safely check a few things yourself before anyone comes out: tighten a hinge screw that has simply loosened, wipe the glide tracks free of grit, and look for the order sticker so you know your series before ordering parts. What goes wrong fast is drilling, leveling, or forcing any KraftMaid cabinet back into square if the box itself has dropped or the hardware has stripped. I’ve watched homeowners put a longer screw through the back of a cabinet box trying to fix a pulled hinge, and what they ended up with was a hole through the side panel and a door that still fell open. Cabinet work is heavy and awkward, and a sheet of plywood with a finished face will take a chunk out of a wall or a floor if it slips. If your kitchen just needs a hinge or a glide swapped, call us at (754) 354-3720 and tell us the door style or order number; a lot of those are same-week repairs. If it was installed wrong from the beginning, we tell you what we found, what it takes to fix it, and what it will cost, before we touch a thing.