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Help with pull sizes for 27, 31.5, and 36 inch wide drawers

7 years ago



I am struggling with what sizes of pulls to use. What sizes would you use on this oven/rangetop wall? If I can figure out this wall, the rest of the drawers/doors should fall into place.


Option A: My thinking is that I want to do a slightly longer single pull on the 36" range top drawers. I figure I would most likely open the drawer with one hand so one centered pull might be better. However, what size should I do? Is 6 5/16 long enough? I am not a fan of an extremely long pull spanning most of the width of the cabinet.


Option B: I also like the look of two smaller pulls on a 36" drawer. However, if I do two pulls on the 36", what do I do on the 27" drawers and the 31.5" drawer under the ovens? They seem too small for two pulls. If you do two pulls on a large 36" cabinet, how small should the other cabinets get before you go down to 1 single pull?


Not a great pic but this one appears to have two small pulls on the 36" rangetop base and then single pulls on the slightly smaller drawers next to it. Will I really open this drawer with two hands or will always grab it from the left handle and eventually make the glides go out of whack?

David Sharff, AIA · More Info


I am leaning towards the Amerock Kane pulls in Black Bronze. They come in 3, 3 3/4, 5 1/6, 6 5/16, 8, 12, 18. Perimeter cabinets will be white and island will be stained.





Amerock Kane shown in the next few pics in various ORB and satin nickel.


I love the look of this one.

Country Meadow · More Info


However, the larger appliance pulls get rather bulky. I am assuming that is an 18" pull on the side of the island. I would not want to do something that large on the 36" rangetop base drawer.

Country Meadow · More Info


This post from Houzz says they used a 6 1/4" pull on a 36" drawer. Is it too small?

Can you pls show me a single centered pull on a 36" pot drawer? · More Info


Elsewhere in the kitchen, we will have an 18" trash pullout and a dishwasher door panel. I am fine doing larger pulls on them (maybe 12"?), but they will be in the stained wood island as opposed to white so the pulls won't stand out as much.


Any help is appreciated! Thank you!

Comments (8)

  • 7 years ago
    last modified: 7 years ago

    I put two pulls on all my drawers > 27" and one pull on the narrower ones -- all pulls are the same size. Even though I often open them with one hand, they are rarely misaligned. Even when one does get out of alignment (it's happened only a couple of times in 11 years), all I had to do was pull them all the way out and wiggle them and they popped back into alignment. The first time I took the drawers off the glides (easy to do with Blum glides) and popped them back on...but the "wiggle" approach works just as well!

    Note: This probably only applies to good quality hardware. I don't think I would have done two pulls/drawer if I had builder-grade glides.

  • 7 years ago

    There is really no right or wrong answer so just use what looks good to you. On your layout I would use the 5 1/6" pull on the 18" end cabinets and the 6 5/16" single pull on all of the other drawers. On drawers and pullouts under 21" including the trash pullouts, I used the 5 1/6" pull. All other drawers I used a single 6 5/16" pull except under the range top where I used two pulls on the 48" drawers. I used the 8" pull on the DWs flanking the main sink because they are big enough to hold a folded dry dish towel. This is how we signal which DW is in use. This sizing guide might help.

    http://theknobbery.com/cabinet-hardware-sizing-guide


    A T@Home thanked wilson853
  • 7 years ago

    @wilson853 Great sizing guide! Very helpful. Thanks!

  • 7 years ago

    If I did something like @wilson853 is suggesting, what would you all do for the 9" base pantry pullouts (BPP9) on either side of the rangetop? A knob like I am using on the uppers, the same d-shape pull as the base drawers but maybe a little smaller like 3 or 3 3/4", or the coordinating cup pull? Whereas the larger drawer pulls will be installed in the recessed panel space of the drawer front, this one will be installed on the top rail. I guess same will be true with the trash pullout and dishwasher panel. So maybe I do another d-shape pull and keep it consistent? Those cabinets are so narrow, I wonder if I treat it differently? Thanks!






  • 7 years ago

    These pullouts are 15" wide, but the space between the molding is narrow so I used a knob with a 5 1/6" pull. The left opens as a single unit. The right side is a potholder drawer with a pullout beneath, so I had to treat both sides the same.


  • PRO
    7 years ago

    A cabinet maker recommended to me that I put ONE PULL on even the widest drawer. He said that few people open drawers with two hands - they usually have something in one. And pulling from one side where there are two pulls, pulls the glides out of balance/place. I used the same 5 1/4 " pulls on ALL my cabinets and drawers!



    I have multiple wide drawers. Dog cubby now has two big, deep drawers as well.

  • last year
    last modified: last year

    How about if there’s a few narrower drawers (12” W) just in a couple areas (one on each side of cooktop, one flanking each side of the seating area)?

    Note: The rest of kitchen drawers vary in width of 18” (garbage & recycling pull out), 24” 30” and a bank of drawers each area 33” (we’re doing knobs on doors, pulls on drawers but this is our only dilemna - can we do one pull size on All drawers -eg., 5 1/16” -of the few sizes available in our selected pulls, or must we mix pull sizes, or lastly double up the beginning size- 3 3/4” on the wider drawers. Sigh. *The showroom person mentioned maybe put knobs on just the drawers that are 12” but we ponder if that might throw off the consistent visial flow. First-time dealing with this. No idea how complex it can get!