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KraftMaid Construction in Los Angeles, CA | Mason Remodeling Co Los Angeles
We’re Mason Remodeling Co Los Angeles, an independent General Contractor in Los Angeles providing KraftMaid cabinet installation, refacing, and kitchen construction service throughout Los Angeles. The one thing that makes our KraftMaid work here different: we treat every cabinet as if it’s going into a house that moves. Los Angeles hillside homes settle, seismic retrofits shift wall planes, and unpermitted framing is common in older neighborhoods. We build for that reality, not for a factory-perfect floor. Call (213) 632-5711 for a free estimate, and you’ll get a written price before any work starts.
Why Los Angeles Residents Choose Us for KraftMaid Service
KraftMaid builds a good cabinet. The Vantage, Logan, Durham, and Kingsport lines have solid engineered wood boxes and dovetailed drawers that hold up well when they’re installed correctly. The problem is that “correctly” in Los Angeles means something different than it does in a flat tract home in Phoenix or Dallas. Our crews have rebuilt hundreds of KraftMaid kitchens and baths across Los Angeles, from mid-century bungalows to 1980s soft-story apartments, and we know exactly how KraftMaid’s engineered wood boxes and dovetailed drawers behave when a 6.7 shifts the foundation under them.
Isaac Pruett, our owner, trained in construction technology at Los Angeles Trade-Technical College downtown and spent nearly two decades on residential and light commercial jobs across the county. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley watching his uncle tear apart and rebuild a house on Roscoe Boulevard, which is where he learned that a cabinet is only as good as the floor it sits on. We carry that lesson into every Los Angeles job we take. We’re not a manufacturer affiliate or an authorized KraftMaid dealer. We’re an independent service provider, which means we answer to you, not to a corporate warranty department. KraftMaid sales & service is what we do, but we do it the way a Los Angeles contractor would, with shims, scribes, and an honest conversation about what’s worth fixing.
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Common KraftMaid Construction Problems We Solve in Los Angeles
Here’s what we see most often when we walk into a Los Angeles kitchen with KraftMaid cabinets:
- Face-frame joints pulling apart at stile-to-rail intersections. Hillside homes in places like Echo Park and Silver Lake settle unevenly, and when the wall plane shifts by a quarter inch or more, the stress lands right on those glued joints. We re-glue, clamp, and reinforce with hidden fasteners, then re-align the cabinet before re-hanging doors.
- Soft-close drawer guides binding or popping out of alignment after seismic racking. This shows up most in the Vantage and Logan lines with older undermount slides. A small quake can torque the drawer box just enough to throw the guide off its track. We replace with Blum heavy-duty undermounts that fit the existing 35mm cup holes and handle vibration far better than the OEM hardware.
- Melamine end panels delaminating in unventilated hillside kitchens. Los Angeles diurnal temperature swings cause repeated expansion and contraction, and in a hillside kitchen with poor airflow, that moisture cycle eventually lifts the melamine layer from the particleboard core. We replace end panels with factory-matched KraftMaid parts and address the ventilation issue where we can.
- Hinge screws stripping out of particleboard stiles. We see this constantly in older rental units and 1960s-70s apartment buildings with tuck-under parking, where the framing was never truly plumb. Doors sag, screws lose their bite, and the cabinet starts to look tired. We repair with threaded inserts or dowel plugs, then re-hang with Salice hinges that hold their adjustment.
- Corner lazy Susans binding against out-of-square walls. In older Los Angeles homes, especially hillside properties, walls are rarely plumb and corners are rarely square. A factory-sized lazy Susan will hit the wall or the adjacent cabinet face. We shorten the mechanism, re-fit the mounting plate, and make it turn clean.
KraftMaid Service in Los Angeles: What Local Conditions Mean for Your Equipment
Here’s what nobody tells you when you buy cabinets: in Los Angeles hillside zones like Mount Washington and Baldwin Hills, KraftMaid cabinets are routinely installed in kitchens where the floor is not level, sometimes by more than an inch across a 10-foot run. If you’re considering our Bathroom Remodeling in Los Angeles, we apply the same careful approach there too. The original 1920s-50s foundations settled differentially decades ago, and no one ever fixed it. A factory-built cabinet assumes a flat floor. When you install on a sloped floor without shims and scribes, the cabinet boxes rack, the doors bind, and the drawers never sit right. That’s why we shim and scribe every base cabinet to the actual floor, then hide the gap with a custom toe-kick that follows the slope. It’s slower than slapping cabinets on the subfloor, but it’s the difference between a kitchen that works for 20 years and one that starts fighting you in six months. In Echo Park and Silver Lake, we also routinely find hillside foundations with no rebar and unpermitted additions from decades past, so a simple kitchen remodel can become a structural conversation. We’re prepared for that conversation.
Our crew just finished a KraftMaid Vantage kitchen on Avon Street in Echo Park, where the hillside foundation had no rebar and the floor sloped 1.25 inches over nine feet. Every base cabinet went in on custom-scribed maple shims, the corner lazy Susan had to be shortened 3/8 inch to clear the unlevel wall, and we replaced all the factory soft-close slides with Blum heavy-duty undermounts so the drawers wouldn’t slam when the next quake hits. The homeowner got a level counter, flush doors, and drawers that stay put. That’s the standard we hold to on every Los Angeles cabinet job.
KraftMaid Models & Products We Service in Los Angeles
We install, reface, and repair the full KraftMaid residential line, including Vantage, Logan, Durham, and Kingsport. For doors, drawer fronts, and moldings, we use genuine KraftMaid factory replacement parts so the finish and grain match the original. For hardware, we spec Blum or Salice aftermarket slides and hinges that fit KraftMaid’s 35mm cup holes and outperform the OEM parts under seismic vibration. We keep common replacement parts in local stock for fast turnaround across Los Angeles, and anything we don’t have we order directly from KraftMaid’s distribution network with realistic lead times.
And we’re honest about repair-versus-replace. If a cabinet box has racked past the point where shimming and re-aligning will hold, we’ll tell you. Chasing hinge and slide failures in a cabinet that’s already twisted is throwing money at a problem. Sometimes a full box replacement is cheaper long-term, and we’ll give you the numbers both ways before you decide.
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What you’ll pay depends on the scope, the condition of your existing kitchen, and how much structural correction the floor and walls need. Here are the ranges we work within across Los Angeles:
| Service | Price Range |
|---|---|
| KraftMaid cabinet installation (per linear foot) | $4,720 – $15,340 |
| Cabinet refacing (typical 10×10 kitchen) | $10,620 – $23,600 |
| Quartz countertop with KraftMaid cabinets | $2,360 – $7,670 |
| Kitchen island with KraftMaid base cabinets | $3,540 – $11,800 |
Your free estimate includes a full measurement, a look at your floor and wall condition, and a written line-item price delivered before any work starts. No verbal numbers that grow later, no change orders unless you ask for a change. Call (213) 632-5711 to schedule your estimate, and we’ll bring the level, the laser, and straight answers.
Serving Los Angeles, CA - Our Local Coverage Area
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FAQs – KraftMaid Construction in Los Angeles
Can you install KraftMaid cabinets in my Los Angeles hillside kitchen without tearing out the existing unlevel floor?
Yes, in most cases. We shim and scribe each base cabinet to the actual floor rather than forcing the cabinet to a level line that would leave gaps and stress the box. We then hide any remaining gap with a custom toe-kick that follows the slope. If the slope is severe enough that shimming would compromise the cabinet’s integrity, we’ll tell you that too. Call (213) 632-5711 and we’ll come measure.
Why do my KraftMaid soft-close drawers slam shut after a minor earthquake?
The seismic movement racks the drawer box slightly, which throws the undermount guide out of alignment. Once the guide is off its track by even a fraction of an inch, the soft-close mechanism stops engaging and the drawer slams. We fix this by re-aligning the guide and, in most Los Angeles kitchens, replacing the OEM slide with a Blum heavy-duty undermount that holds its adjustment far better under vibration. Call (213) 632-5711 for an exact diagnosis, estimates are free.
My KraftMaid corner lazy Susan hits the wall because my kitchen is out of square. Is that normal in LA?
Yes, it’s normal in older Los Angeles homes, especially hillside properties and 1920s-50s construction. Walls drift out of plumb and corners drift out of square over decades of settling. We shorten the lazy Susan mechanism, re-fit the mounting plate, and make it turn clean without hitting. It’s a common fix on kraftmaid kitchens across the city, and it’s usually done in a single visit.
Should I reface or replace my KraftMaid cabinets after a big remodel uncovered unpermitted framing?
That depends on the condition of the boxes. If the cabinet boxes are still square and solid, refacing with genuine KraftMaid doors and drawer fronts gives you a fresh kitchen for roughly half the cost of full replacement. If the boxes have racked from the framing issues, refacing is cosmetic coverup on a structural problem, and you’ll be back in the same spot in a few years. We’ll inspect and give you both numbers. Call (213) 632-5711 to schedule the inspection.
Do you install KraftMaid cabinets in 1960s Los Angeles apartment buildings with tuck-under parking that need seismic retrofits?
Yes. Those buildings are a big part of our Los Angeles work. The tuck-under parking configuration means the kitchen floor often sits over an open span, and seismic retrofit work can shift the wall planes above. We coordinate with the retrofit contractor, install after the structural work is done, and spec hardware that holds up under the ongoing vibration of a soft-story building. If you’re planning a kitchen install alongside a retrofit, call (213) 632-5711 early so we can sequence the work properly.
Service Areas Near Los Angeles
We serve the full Los Angeles area, including Los Angeles service area, KraftMaid service in Van Nuys, KraftMaid service in Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, Culver City, and Venice. If you’re within Los Angeles County and have KraftMaid cabinets, we’ll come take a look.
Book Your KraftMaid Service in Los Angeles Today
You’ll get a written price before any work starts, a crew you know by name and photo before they arrive, and a written guarantee covering every project. Know who’s coming, know what it costs, know it’s guaranteed, everything else is just noise. Call (213) 632-5711 to schedule your free KraftMaid estimate in Los Angeles.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner at Mason Remodeling Co Los Angeles, serving Los Angeles since 2004.
