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KraftMaid Kitchen Remodeling: The Los Angeles Owner’s Guide
KraftMaid kitchen remodeling in Los Angeles typically runs $16,520 to $53,100 for a full project, with cabinet installation alone at $4,720 to $15,340. We keep KraftMaid-compatible hinges, drawer glides, shelf pins, and door bumpers on the truck, so most part failures get resolved in a single visit. Owners usually discover a failed part the same way: a drawer starts dragging, a door won’t stay closed, or a hinge creaks every time someone reaches for a plate. KraftMaid cabinets are built well, but years of daily use in a busy Los Angeles kitchen will eventually wear down the hardware that takes the most abuse.
Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To
KraftMaid has shifted its product lines a few times over the years, and that matters when you’re matching a replacement part. We work on the full range we see across Los Angeles homes: the Venicia line, the standard KraftMaid cabinetry series, and the newer KraftMaid Vantage line. The fastest way to identify your cabinet is to open a door and look for a small white or silver sticker on the inside face of the frame. It’ll list the cabinet’s series, finish code, and often the door style. If the sticker is long gone, measurements do the job: hinge cup holes are almost always 35mm on KraftMaid, and drawer box widths are typically 1/2-inch or 5/8-inch solid wood or plywood depending on the series. For hinges, we stock both the older clip-on style and the newer soft-close models KraftMaid uses now. For heavy-use parts like drawer glides, we recommend OEM KraftMaid hardware when the cabinet is still under warranty and quality aftermarket equivalents when it isn’t. The aftermarket soft-close glides we keep on the truck hold up just as well and cost about 20 to 30 percent less.
Styles & brands we work with
Signs Your KraftMaid Kitchen Remodeling Is Failing
- A drawer won’t stay shut or is hard to open. This is almost always a worn ball-bearing glide. The nylon bearings crack after years of weight and grit, and the drawer starts to fight you. On KraftMaid cabinets, we see this most often in the under-sink and pot-and-pan drawers that carry the heaviest loads.
- A cabinet door hangs crooked or pops open on its own. The hinge loses tension as the internal springs weaken, especially on doors that have been adjusted repeatedly. In coastal Los Angeles homes, salty air speeds up corrosion on the hinge mechanism.
- The soft-close no longer soft-closes. That gentle pull-back is a small hydraulic damper inside the hinge or glide. Once the damper seal fails, the door slams. It’s not fixable by tightening screws, and adding a felt pad is a temporary bandage at best.
- Shelves sag or the shelf pins keep slipping out. KraftMaid uses metal shelf pins that sit in pre-drilled holes along the cabinet sides. Over time, the holes can wallow out, especially if shelves carry canned goods or heavy dishware. We drill and sleeve the holes rather than gluing pins, which is the repair that actually lasts.
- The finish is worn through to bare wood on the face frames. This isn’t a single part failure, but it’s a sign the cabinet has reached the point where piecemeal repairs stop making sense. In dry Los Angeles summers, wood contracts and finish cracks form faster than in humid climates, especially on cabinets that catch direct sun from a kitchen window.
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AfterReplacement Cost & What’s Included
Here’s what Los Angeles homeowners can expect to pay for KraftMaid-related kitchen work:
- Single hinge or drawer glide replacement: $65 – $180 installed, depending on the part and whether we need to adjust neighboring hardware.
- Full hardware refresh for an average 20-drawer kitchen: $700 – $1,500 installed, including all hinges, glides, and bumpers.
- Cabinet installation (new KraftMaid boxes): $4,720 – $15,340.
- Full kitchen remodel with KraftMaid cabinets: $16,520 – $53,100.
Every price we quote is written before work starts and includes parts, labor, and cleanup. No change orders, no surprises on the final bill. If a hinge or glide we install fails within 365 days of the completion date, we return and replace it at no charge under the 365-Day Done Right Promise.
DIY or Call Us?
You can safely check a few things before calling. Open each drawer and look for loose screws where the glide mounts to the cabinet wall. Check that shelf pins are seated in their holes, not resting on the lip. Look for the KraftMaid identification sticker so you can tell us the exact series when you call. What you shouldn’t do is try to replace a soft-close hinge yourself if the mounting plate is misaligned or the door needs re-shimming. Most hinge failures we see aren’t the hinge at all, they’re the cabinet face or door that shifted. Adjusting that without the right feel leads to stripped screws and cracked frames, and that turns a $100 part into a $600 cabinet repair. Hinges themselves are low-risk, but a door that suddenly drops when you remove the old hinge can take a chunk out of a toe or a tile floor. If you’d rather not wrestle with it, call us at (213) 632-5711 and we’ll match the part and install it the same visit.
FAQs
Plan on 15 to 20 years of daily use before hinges start to fail, and less, often 10 to 12 years, in coastal neighborhoods like Pacific Palisades or Playa del Rey where salt air accelerates corrosion. The soft-close dampers inside the hinge typically wear out before the hinge body itself. Call (213) 632-5711 if your hinges are binding or slamming, estimates are free.
No. Once the internal spring or hydraulic damper inside a KraftMaid hinge wears out, there is no reliable repair. Hinges are a sealed unit, and replacement is the only fix that lasts more than a few months.
Most single-part replacements take 30 to 60 minutes once we’re in the kitchen. A full hardware refresh on 20 drawers and doors is usually a half-day job. We’ll give you a written time estimate before the work begins.
We carry common KraftMaid-compatible hinges, drawer glides, shelf pins, and door bumpers on the truck, along with parts for Cambria, Silestone, and Kohler fixtures. Unusual finishes or older Venicia-specific parts may take two to three business days to source, and we’ll tell you that before you book.
If your KraftMaid kitchen is fighting you, call (213) 632-5711 for a free estimate. We’ll send a background-checked uniformed technician whose name and photo you’ll have before they arrive, and the price will be in writing before any work starts. Know who’s coming, know what it costs, know it’s guaranteed – everything else is just noise.
Written by Isaac Pruett, Owner, Mason Remodeling Co at Mason Remodeling Co Los Angeles, serving Los Angeles and nearby areas.
