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Cabinet Pulls: different sizes or the same size with multiples?

8 years ago
last modified: 8 years ago

Hello, designing friends! My husband and I have settled on all pulls in our kitchen (he hates knobs); however, now we are at an impasse about the sizes. We have a few oversized (30-36 inches) drawers in our kitchen. We are trying to decide whether to do larger pulls (9inches) on the oversized drawers (and then if it will look funny with with having a small pull on the drawer next to one that has an oversized one?) or just do two of the smaller pulls (3 3/4) per drawer to keep uniformity. I included a picture for an example. Thanks for any thoughts you can provide!


Comments (14)

  • 8 years ago

    How big are your oversized drawers?

  • 8 years ago

    One set is 36 and the other is 30. My smaller ones range from 21-24.

  • 8 years ago

    @tbchic Are those the Top Knobs Ascendra?

  • 8 years ago

    yes they are :)

  • 8 years ago
    last modified: 8 years ago

    @tbchic Those are the exact knobs we are doing. What sizes did you use?

  • 8 years ago

    I just measured:

    On the 17 1/2" width drawer and long trash pull out we used 5 1/2" pulls.

    On the 33" width drawers we used 12 1/2" pulls

    On our upper cabinets that are 36" in height we used the 4 1/2" pulls

  • 8 years ago

    Good to know. My husband liked the smaller pulls better than the 5 1/2....but I like the way yours look. I didn't actually know they made a 4 1/2. What made you choose different sizes rather than just going with multiples on larger drawers?

  • 8 years ago
    Here is another overall pic. I have a pretty small kitchen compared to most and have a weird window we had to work around which is why the shorter uppers have knobs. It seemed a little overwhelming in my case to have all pulls along that wall with different height cabinets.

    For the larger drawers I chose the one large pull for looks and for ease of access. My thought was while opening I could just grab anywhere and open it. I didn’t see myself using 2 pulls at the same time to open. With that wide of a drawer having 2 separate pulls I wondered if only pulling on one side would cause the other side to shift and become out of square or put more pressure on one side, especially if the drawer was filled. It may not have been a problem but was my thought process for a large drawer.
  • 7 years ago

    Beautiful. Please can you tell me make , model, & manufacturer of the range hood. Love it!

  • 7 years ago

    J MS....what did you end up doing? I'm going through this right now myself and we too are planning on using the Top Knobs Ascendra pulls! Also, do you like them?? Now that you've had them for a while...?? Thanks!

  • 5 years ago

    J MS, what sizes did you end up using? I'm having the exact same issue right now. Thinking of using 5 1/16" pulls on drawers 15 3/4, 16 1/2, 18, 20" wide, and then 8 13/16 on drawers widths of 29, 30 1/2, and 33. Is that going to be too much hardware? other sizes available include 3 3/4" & 6 5/16. Using Top Knobs Princetonian in honey bronze.

  • 3 years ago

    I love that you used different size pulls and I think it looks more interesting. Thank you also for the 1/3 rule. The 1/3 guideline means that the pull's overall length is approximately 1/3 of the length of the cabinet drawer.

  • 2 years ago

    I love your kitchen window! Thanks for asking this question--just what I needed to know and see :)