I thought vertical pulls was normal!

Me too, Fori! Every kitchen I've lived in has had vertical pulls.

Do you mean horizontal pulls?

Give us an example of a vertical pull?

horizontal pulls go side to side. Vertical pulls go up and down. I think of vertical pulls as being more trendy and horizontal being traditional.

I'm using horizontal pulls on drawers and knobs on doors. As far as your home, what is your design style? If you like vertical and your decor is a little eclectic or will support kinda trendy then I think, do vertical.

Funny, I thought just the opposite: horizontal pulls=trendy, vertical pulls=traditional. I've living in a lot of homes and I've never lived in one with horizontal pulls. I thought that was something 'new' and different (which, to me, translates into trendy).

I agree with Sumnerfan. I've only seen one kitchen in my whole life with horizontal pulls. Ever. It looks great, BTW.

Horizontal pulls, as mentioned above, go side to side (like the horizon) and in most kitchens people put horizontal pulls on the drawers. (if not 2 of them). Upper cabinets will often have knobs ,or horizontal pulls which will run along the bottom of the door or vertical pulls which will run up and down along the side of the door.
I would view horizontal pulls on upper cabinets as trendy and for more contemporary kitchens IMHO.

Vertical pulls have been common for at least the last half century; can't imagine they're suddenly "trendy".

What would be unusual is vertical pulls on the drawers. Pulls on upper or lower cabinet doors, especially if placed at the edge, are far more common than horizontal pulls. When the pull is in the center of the door (an placement I've never liked, since the door edge hits your wrist when you open it), horizontal seems to be more common than vertical.

Thank you everyone for your input! This forum has really helped my kitchen leave the 70's behind and get into the 21st century. I meant horizonal pulls on the drawers, and vertical pulls on the upper cabinets, where some would put a knob. I agree with everyone that horizonal pulls on upper cabinets (where you might put a knob) would be more of a statement.

Our granite supplier rated our kitchen as "one the contemporary side" but the house itself is traditional eclectic, the "foreign service" look, ie, historical objects from the far East. The house is a colonial. What I mean by vertical pulls can be seen in the kitchen showrooms now.

I have 52 pulls in my kitchen. Ten are vertical--all on upper cabs. My mother had the same configuration--verticals on the uppers--but hers were about half the length and so tight in hole that it required a pinch movement to pull the door open. Ah, the forties.

Once in a while I see angled pulls that run 45 degrees off from the two angles of a door corner to make a hypotenuse. Always attracts my attention--throws me off.

Oh yes, the angled ones. Now THAT is something that was trendy, and not for very long.

Normal forEVER has been horizontal on drawers, vertical on doors. It makes the most sense mechanically as well as ergonomically.

I agree that horizontal for drawers and vertical everywhere else is the traditional method.
I went with knobs on my uppers cabs (over fridge/freezer and the ones over the tall pullout and oven cabs), but may swap out to vertical pulls someday. We'd just use the hole drilled for the knob and add another one to make it a pull setup. I like the knobs, but I really dig the pulls I used everywhere else. I have way more details to worry about now, so that may be a project a year from now ;)

We almost went with the 45 degree setup for our sink cab, but chickened out in the end. We weren't sure which direction of 45 degrees to put them either as both looked off. I think a particular vintage pull is needed to pull them off. I have seen that done with the boomerang type ones from the 50s and it looks cute.

Under the spell of "universal design" we've chosen 5.5 inch pulls that have a 1+ inch arc off the cab. It's possible to hook a finger into these and pull open without any more fingers and the grab area is pretty long. Great right now when fingers are greasy but helpful for arthritic fingers, etc. Trendy or a modern classic?

Thank you everyone. We went with pulls vertical and horizontal in the standard way. So many choices in a kitchen remodel!