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KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU: The San Jose Owner’s Guide

KraftMaid cabinet systems in San Jose home additions and ADUs typically run $53,100-$153,400 installed, depending on whether you’re building a 400-square-foot junior ADU or a full 1,200-square-foot addition with integrated kitchen and bath. We stock KraftMaid-compatible cabinet configurations, hardware, and trim packages for same-day assessment and measured ordering. Most San Jose homeowners discover their KraftMaid components need attention when cabinet doors sag, drawer glides bind, or moisture from the addition’s new envelope causes panel swelling near Willow Glen’s older plumbing lines.

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Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To

KraftMaid’s Vantage, CoreGuard, and Canvas series are the three lines we see most often in San Jose ADUs and additions. Vantage uses a 3/4-inch solid wood dovetail drawer box with undermount soft-close glides rated for 75 pounds, CoreGuard substitutes a plywood-core door with thermofoil wrap for wet-zone applications, and Canvas is the paint-grade maple line with a five-piece recessed panel. The critical compatibility gotcha: Vantage and CoreGuard use different hinge boring patterns, 35mm cup depth versus 40mm, so a Vantage door hung on CoreGuard hardware will crack the frame within two years. We verify by the stamped code inside the upper right hinge cup, not the box label, since distributors often repackage.

OEM KraftMaid parts ship from Middlefield, Ohio, with a three-week lead time to San Jose. We source equivalent hardware from Blum and Salice for same-week repair, with matching specs and equivalent warranty terms. For finish-matched replacement doors, we order OEM through our distributor in San Jose’s Almaden Valley and cross-check the dye lot against your existing cabinets under natural light, not showroom fluorescents.

Signs Your KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU Is Failing

• Drawer boxes rack and bind. The dovetail joints separate when the glide mounting screws strip from particleboard sides, common in ADUs where seasonal humidity swings run 30-70% through a Santa Clara Valley winter. The drawer front stays square but the box torques, and the soft-close mechanism pops off its catch.
• Door faces show hairline cracks at the stile-rail joint. Thermofoil-wrapped CoreGuard doors delaminate when the addition’s HVAC isn’t sized for the new load, which we see frequently in converted garages near Japantown where the mini-split runs constantly and the cabinet sits in a cold corner.
• Adjustable shelf pins wallow out. The 5mm steel pin hole in the 3/4-inch melamine gable enlarges after repeated loading with countertop appliances; the shelf tilts, and the pin falls through to the cabinet floor below.
• Base cabinet toe kicks detach or warp. In ADU kitchens with slab-on-grade construction, moisture wicks through the concrete and swells the MDF toe-kick skin, popping the staples that hold it to the nailer strip.
• Lazy Susan or corner unit trays seize. The polymer bearing race in KraftMaid’s kidney-shaped units collects construction dust and drywall compound grit; the trays still rotate but require two hands and a shoulder, which defeats the accessibility purpose.

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Replacement Cost & What’s Included

These figures include removal, disposal, installation, and adjustment to factory reveal standards. What drives the range: finish complexity (glazed and distressed add 30%), whether the gable sides are damaged and need sistering, and access constraints in ADUs where the kitchen aisle is 36 inches and a standard base cabinet won’t rotate out without disassembling the countertop first. Under Clause 1 of the Haven Standard, the written price you approve is the price you pay; no change proceeds without a signed change order. Every repair includes our 365-Day Done Right Promise and a documented photo record of before, during, and after.

DIY or Call Us?

What you can safely check: verify the hinge cup code, measure the door overlay (half-inch versus full-overlay determines the hinge plate), and confirm whether your drawer is side-mount or undermount by looking for the glide bracket on the cabinet wall or the drawer box bottom. These three facts let us pre-order correctly and show up with the right parts.

Where DIY goes wrong: drilling new hinge cups freehand without a 35mm Forstner jig and depth stop will blow through the door face. Attempting to swap a base cabinet without supporting the countertop risks slab fracture, particularly on the quartz and Cambria installations we see in San Jose ADUs. And finish-matching a replacement door to a five-year-old kitchen under California UV exposure requires a spectrophotometer and a spray booth, not a hardware store rattle can. Rowan Construction Group San Jose is an independent service provider, not affiliated with KraftMaid. Call (669) 271-8644 and we’ll measure twice, permit once, then we talk timeline.

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