I also need to make this decision soon, so I plan to take everything out of my cabinets, group what I want to keep together in each drawer, and measure. The designer is going to send me the inside dimensions for the drawer choices so I would know what will fit where. Will also need to take into account how all these drawers will look together, with different heights next to each other...

I am currently moving back into our kitchen slowly. THe other night I was working on putting the pots in the drawers. I hate stacking my pots and pans--I don't like them to get scratched--they used to be on a potrack for this reason.

I would highly suggest you take all of your pots and pans and do the measuring thing. Decide which ones you use a lot, put those in drawers next to the stove. Some of my pans are really wide with very long handles--and the angle of the handle varies between them. This means that I need longer drawers but not as deep for those, but yet my really tall stock pot needs a tall drawer.

In my case, I could have gone with shallower drawers, if it meant going from 2 to three drawers for most of my pots (in order to avoid the stacking thing too much). But like I said, there are only a few of my pots that are very tall. I really think you only need the deep drawers to accomodate the tall pots. Otherwise, you will be burying your pots under one another in order to "not waste space".