The Cook’s Kitchen, good points! And my husband’s hands are large... All my lowers will be drawers and I imagine opening the bottommost drawer with a pull vs a cup would be easier.

If I go with pulls, are there standard center-to-centers in the larger sizes? I find they seem to be all over the place. I ask because in case styles change 10 yrs down the road, I’d like not to be drilling new holes and filling in old. (What I had to do with our old cabinets.)

I simply felt cup pulls might better match the age of our 110 yr old home, and they seem (to me) to be more timeless. But not necessarily more practical.

What type of drawer pull would you consider “timeless” (to avoid hole placement problems in future)?

None of my drawers are greater than 20” wide, but I will have a bank of four lower drawers that will be in a nine inch wide lower cabinet (unavoidable next to a corner sink). My guess is the drawer fronts will be 5 or 6 inches wide? So I’d have to find pulls that would come in two sizes (vs cups that could work there, too)

The point of drawer pulls is to be practical. Form follows function--at a great distance.

Most pulls chosen these days are 4”, or larger. It depends on the overall aesthetic. Since you considered cup pulls, yours sounds more Traditional. So the truly large pulls probably would not be the best choice for that aesthetic.

And probably not those (ugly, IMO) bar pulls for a traditional home.

With pulls you need to order a sample - everything looks pretty but the function is questionable, especially if someone has large hands.

Unfortunately there is no standard for the center line of the holes - 3 1/4 and 4" used to be but now there is so much more and they are metric sizes...

As far as placement, I have seen people put handles in all different places on drawers

Get a few samples and hold them up to the cabinets... you'll know...

Good luck!

I shy away from using cup pulls in kitchens, because I have broken nails in a rush. Plus, they can get dirty underneath. I use cups more on furniture or offices.

If I'm understanding this correctly .... this isn't an issue because the openings for the screws on the cup pull are not centered on the cup pull. They have already thought of this and solved for it. So you would use the same holes for a cup pull as you would for a bar pull and both would be centered on the drawer.

Another reason it's hard to go from cups to pulls later, is because after use the cup outline maybe imprinted onto the drawer front. If in directsun, could also leave a "shadow fade" because under the pull no sunlight & therfore did not age the same color as rest. So, pulls now will be easier to change later to different pulls years later.

If ever decide to change pulls, chances are you'll find a perfect size. There's so many to choose from. But worse case scenario holes do not line up, use backplates to hide old holes.

Example

So, choose your favorite now & enjoy. There will be plenty of options later.