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

If you have KraftMaid cabinetry and you’re planning a home addition or ADU in San Antonio, the cabinetry side of the job usually runs $14,000 to $45,000 installed, while the full addition itself lands between $45,000 and $130,000 depending on square footage, foundation work, and finish level. We stock KraftMaid cabinet lines and work with their current catalog, so matching new boxes to an existing kitchen or tying a new ADU kitchenette into the same door style and finish is something we handle regularly. Most San Antonio homeowners reach out after realizing that adding square footage means adding cabinetry, and the cabinets they already love in the main house need a matching run in the new space.

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Which KraftMaid Models This Applies To

KraftMaid runs three core construction lines that matter for additions and ADUs: the standard all-plywood line, the Vantage line, and the newer KraftMaid Pro series. The gotcha most San Antonio homeowners hit is this: door styles carry across lines, but box construction and hinge hardware do not. You can have the same shaker door profile in the guest house that you have in the main kitchen, but if the main house was built with Vantage and you order standard-line boxes for the ADU, the cabinet boxes feel different when you open them. Heavier, sturdier on one side, lighter on the other. We specify all-plywood construction on every KraftMaid order we place for additions and ADUs. The cost difference is roughly 15 to 20 percent and it eliminates sagging shelves and loosening hinge screws in unconditioned ADU spaces, which Texas heat punishes harder than people expect. OEM KraftMaid hardware (hinges, slides, shelf pins) is what we install, period. Aftermarket soft-close hinges exist and they’re cheaper, but KraftMaid doors are drilled for their clip system, and mixing hardware creates alignment issues you’ll notice on day one.

Signs Your KraftMaid Home Additions & ADU Is Failing

Most of what fails in a San Antonio addition or ADU shows up in specific, fixable ways. Here’s what we see in this market:

• Doors that no longer stay closed in the ADU. Texas humidity cycles swell MDF door cores, and a door that latched in February drifts open by July. This usually means the hinge clip wore out and the door is hanging a few degrees off, or the MDF face absorbed moisture near a dishwasher or sink run.
• Drawer slides that catch or bind after the first summer. Unconditioned ADUs in San Antonio see interior temperatures above 95 degrees for weeks. The lubricant in budget slides breaks down, and slides that felt smooth at install start grinding by August. We swap them for full-extension soft-close units, which is a same-day job when the box is standard depth.
• Shelf pins pulling out of the side panel. This is almost always an overdrilled pilot hole or a previous repair where someone forced a larger pin into a smaller hole. In plywood boxes this is rare. In particleboard boxes it’s common, and it’s usually the first thing we fix when we’re brought in on an older addition.
• Finish fading or peeling on southern-facing cabinet runs. San Antonio sun through a west-facing window will lighten a KraftMaid finish in three to five years. If the addition has big glass, we recommend ordering the next finish step darker or installing UV film on those windows during the addition build.
• A run of cabinets that’s visibly out of square from the wall. This is an installation problem, not a KraftMaid problem. Someone shimmed poorly or skipped blocking, and now the counter overhangs unevenly and drawers start to rack. It’s correctable, but it means pulling the run and re-setting it properly.

Replacement Cost & What’s Included

Home additions in San Antonio run $45,000 to $130,000, and that’s the number you should anchor on for any room-plus-cabinetry project. ADU construction sits higher, $90,000 to $220,000, because you’re adding plumbing, electrical, HVAC, and a kitchenette or full kitchen inside the unit. On the cabinet side specifically, KraftMaid cabinet installation runs $4,000 to $13,000 for a kitchen-scale run, including tear-out of old boxes, assembly, hanging, hardware, and adjustments. A countertop install adds $2,000 to $6,500. The gap between the low and high end comes down to room count, finish level, whether the addition is on a slab or pier-and-beam, and whether we’re matching an existing KraftMaid door style that’s still in the catalog or recommending a replacement style. Every quote from us is a written line-item price before any work starts. If the number on the invoice isn’t the number you approved, you don’t pay the difference. That’s the Relay Standard, and it’s been how Luca’s crew runs ever since Sawyer hit San Antonio.

DIY or Call Us?

You can check a few things without calling anyone: open every door and drawer and note which ones bind, which ones drift, and which handles feel loose. Take photos. Measure the rough opening if you’re thinking about replacing a run. What you should not tackle on your own is hanging a full run of new cabinetry in an addition or ADU. A wall that’s 3/8 inch out of plumb over eight feet turns into a visible gap at the ceiling line, and fixing that after the countertop is set means tearing out stone. We’ve also seen homeowners order KraftMaid boxes using online room-layout tools with the wrong depth spec, and the boxes arrive 15 inches deep instead of 24, which is a five-figure mistake that’s not returnable. If you’re planning a San Antonio addition or ADU with KraftMaid cabinetry, call (432) 547-6806 and we’ll spec it once, price it in writing, and install it the way the manufacturer’s tolerances actually require.