There is a place for both in a kitchen, but there should absolutely be more drawers than pull-outs. I have one pull-out - it's in a cabinet that has dividers for trays. It's above this and holds my pot lids and pot holders. I also have a "drawer-in-a-drawer" which is a pull-out inside a drawer. It's for canned goods. I love it as I can see exactly what I have and what I need to buy.

Drawers function better than pull-outs in cabinets for a couple of reasons. First of all, with a pull-out, one loses a LOT of storage "real estate" - those pull-outs need hardware. A drawer is far more flexible and give one more space. Things also fall "off" a pull-out and then that means crawling around to retrieve the item. NOT good at all!

I don't care for your refrigerator being right next to your wall ovens. You also don't show where your sink is. Post this to the Kitchen forum and you'll get a lot of help.

All of my bottom cabinets have drawers, except under the sink. No regrets. I do have a set of full length pantry cabinets that have pull-outs. The pull-outs are fine for that and much more convenient than just shelving.

I have a mixture of both.

I have deep drawers which hold cookware and dishes which I love.

I also have rollouts - my tall cabinets have roll outs in the bottom which work well and I also have rollouts for two lowers because aesthetically they looked better. They are fine in terms of accessing the items I keep in them. I don't lose that much storage because of what I store in them - i.e. one roll out has all of the small snack sized pretzels I buy in bulk :-). The only reason I can think of going with a roll out is that you are more in control of height because the interior of the rollouts can be placed at any height you want whereas drawers seem to be configured so that there are more even deep drawers but that could just be my specific configuration.

Drawers over roll out tray shelves (ROTS) any day!

The only non-drawer bases I have are

(1) Sink bases (I have one corner (prep sink) and one regular (cleanup sink))

(2) Pet Center is one with ROTS' instead of drawers

My regret? That I didn't make #2 a trash pullout/drawer base! (I forgot to specify it when ordering cabinets and my KD just put in ROTS).

There are many, many, many threads on the Kitchens Forum discussing the pros/cons. I suggest searching the Forum for them.

(See the "New to Kitchens? Read Me First!" thread for, among many other things, instructions on how to search the Kitchens Forum. Note: Houzz only shows the last 50 comments in a thread, so you will need to repeatedly select/click on the "See XX more comments" link to see the important comments at the beginning of the thread (i.e., the "meat" of the thread").)

Most of my kitchen has drawer bases except for 3 base cabs. 1 of those could have been drawers. 1 could not, because it holds my kitchen aid mixer (too big to fit in a drawer). And the last one I am SO glad I did not do drawers in, it is the cabinet for storage containers and baking pans (9x13, pie plates, etc). By going with pullouts in that cabinet I have 3 pullouts in that base cabinet PLUS the drawer just under the counter. Had I used a drawer base in that spot I would have had 3 drawers instead of 4. I like symmetry and it wouldn't have occurred to me to have 3 skinny drawers so everything sits flat without stacking stuff.

So, most of the time ... Yay Drawers! But there are times when you may want doors and pullouts.

I have drawers everywhere, even under the large main sink. My contractor fought me on this, as he’d never done it in all his 32 years in business. He was sure I’d never know if there was a leak (ah, water sensors), and was not crazy about having to make adjustments to the back of the top drawer, to fit the pipes. He did a fantastic job, and I’m happy I insisted.

The drawers fit a ton of stuff...spare rolls of paper towels, dish towels, rolls of plastic wrap, tin foil, parchment paper, wax paper, a large roll of tall garbage bags (for the garbage pullout immediately to the right), and assorted cleaning supplies. Under the small sink across the aisle (wide galley kitchen), there is a pullout garbage.

I had pullouts in our previous home, so I appreciate the superior convenience and efficiency of drawers.

FYI, l learned about the drawer thing from this site several years ago, along with most everything else in my kitchen...Miele CSO, Miele convection oven, Thermador rangetop, SZ 42” FD fridge, Bosch 800 series DW, soapstone counters (Belvedere, from M.Teixeira), the large Blanco sink, and of course, proper arrangement of everything...ice, water, stone, fire (thanks to Marcolo, wherever he is these days).

I've had both. First kitchen had pullouts and the second one I insisted on drawers.

Cons of pullouts-

You have to open both doors.

The bottom pullout is low so you have to bend over to pull it out. Or you use your toes...

The sides/back usually aren't very tall which can make stacking things problematic.

Will the front of the pullout be finished? In my kitchen they had slab fronts but in my MIL it's just the melamine and doesn't looked finished to me.

Pros of pullouts-

My pullouts could be moved up or down. In my first house I realized if I moved the top pullout up I could fit a baking sheet organizer on the bottom one. No more stacked baking sheets for me! The top pullout was still deep enough to hold my casserole type dishes. Not the greatest pro since things like this could have been taken care of at the design stage.

I do have some cabinets that are only doors. So while I think it's sometimes a good idea to do just doors I'd never pick pullouts over drawers.

I'm still looking for input on soft close bottom drawers activated with a toe tap (not toe kick drawers though.) Anyone have them; know a source that carries them or who makes a device to install for the effect of opening bottom drawers with your foot?

I have mostly drawers but I have a couple taller items so I didnt go for all drawers. I would recommend 1-2 pull outs.

I can't imagine kicking my drawers to open them - the potential wear and tear would be a bit daunting.. I would also have to raise my foot to significantly to reach the drawers.

Even my widest deepest heavily filled drawers open incredibly easy - I can literally open one my pinky. I did get excellent Blumotion full extension hardware.

I do have toe keep step stools which open with a kick of the foot but I don't think hitting the toe kick is potentially as damaging. I had toured a remodel done by my GC and that person had installed touch open cabinets for their upper cabinets - it was a very modern kitchen and they opened up.

Here are a couple of those threads I mentioned earlier:

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2502678/drawers-over-pull-outs-in-cabinets

https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2584226/kitchen-drawers-versus-pull-out-shelves

I just remodeled my kitchen and this is the first kitchen I've ever had with drawer bases. So far, I love them! I did put in a couple bases with pull outs because I needed a taller cabinet for my kitchen aid mixer and my blender. I'm glad I did a mix of both.

I re-did my last kitchen with almost all drawer bases. I just moved to a new house that has mostly roll-outs.

I don’t find the rollouts very convenient at all. Drawers win every time in my book!

Another vote for all drawers.

Drawers. And fix that layout. That island is not at all designed to support the kind of overhang you are talking about. Overhang that isn’t really useful either.

Drawers.

Overhang: If you're buying factory type cabinets, don't pay/buy off on the cabinets until the overhang support is designed and agreed to by the counter fabricator/installer. Some store bound box sellers don't really understand this adequately.

Pull out shelves are drawers that you have to open a door(s) to get to.

All drawers. I've gotten things trapped underneath a pull out. I couldn't get them out. The pull out became inoperative from that point forward. You can't have too many drawers.

I agree with drawers, especially for those used very often, like multiple times a day. However, aesthetically I like having doors to break up the line of drawers, and used several in my kitchen renovation for items I use only sporadically.

Is there time you wished you had 1 pullout for something that drawers can't do?

Never. In fact under my sink I had a pullout instead of a drawer. I had the cabinet maker "fix" my pullout to a full pullout with no regrets.

No, not really, but I have a lot of storage, as you know!

Diana, lol, that was the OP's question and yes, you do have lots of storage in a well designed kitchen!

If this board agrees on any one thing, it's YEAH, DRAWERS! I think everyone here will tell you to go with majority doors.

However, I personally don't think you should automatically go with ALL drawers. In my new kitchen I'll have plain cabinets under the sink ... and I have a space that's just too narrow for a drawer stack to be effective, so it's going to be a chef's drawer. I keep going back and forth on a pop-up mixer, which would require a regular cabinet.

The best answer: Inventory the contents of your kitchen, and plan where it'll go ... consider how most efficiently to store it.

People on Houzz are really obsessed with drawers. Honestly I just built and I put both and am SO happy that I did both. Even though lots of my drawers are different depths, I still found my pull outs super useful. Depends on you.

Thank you guys for the response! You guys have been really helpful. I'm so glad there's such a great community open to help ppl. After reading everyone's comments, I think I'm going to leave the one as pullout instead of making them all drawers :)

Some other somewhat related topics:

Fridge & wall oven placement:

My vision for the kitchen is for it to be symmetrical if somebody were facing the range hood(I know, it's a dumb thing to be obsessed over). In order to do that, the fridge needs to be exactly where it is(large island size & room for the fridge doors to open). There's also a door not shown to the right of the kitchen. I'm open to other options but this is the best we have come up with so far.

Overhang:

I'm not a graphic designer so this is a rough draft I put together. They are definitely not 100% to proportion. Luckily, I'm building through a reputable builder in my area and they will be doing the actual purchasing and building of the countertops & cabinets. I just wanted am image I can show them to avoid miscommunications.

"And fix that layout."

Can you be a little more specific?

colors:

Any thoughts on the cyberspace + white 2 tone color kitchen?

I have both and like having both. As others have noted, the pull-outs can accommodate taller objects that wouldn’t fit in a drawer (like a stand mixer or tall canisters.). It is an extra step to access the pullout, but I don’t find it to be onerous.

I have some deep self-close drawers, and that's where I keep, among other things, my KitchenAid stand mixer and tall canisters and boxes (for example, for cereal).

I like a combination of drawers and roll outs. For baking equipment - measuring cups, pie tins, bowls, casseroles etc I think roll outs are great. Maybe not the 80s style, but with soft close fittings everything just glides open and you can spot what you are looking for at a glance. For that sort of cooking I’m usually gathering together several sizes of both bowls and cups - it’s nice to have them all arranged neatly ready to go on what in essence is a wide shallow tray.

I also plan on staying in this house for awhile. What Mrs. Pete said about surveying what you have is good advice but the past has taught me that I may change the way and kind of things I cook over time. Thinking ahead I’ve tried to go with a type of layout that could flexible - and maybe accommodate taller pieces if for some reason in three years I decide I’m going to live on bone broth :) and need a ton of stockpots. Or maybe I’ll want a KitchenAid. All those fixed- height drawers, as nice as they are, aren’t going to help then.

I don't like your layout! I'll assume the sink to be on the island. Turn the double ovens to a tall pantry. Trade the cook top for a range. Get an GE Advantium micro/speed cook as a second oven , put it at the far left end of that left wall, and build it in to some balanced cabinetry, leaving counter space between that........and the fridge.

Or...... move the double oven stack to the far left, and build in micro wave right of fridge as part of pantry and food storage.

That whole wall looks right side heavy.

Posts will not support that overhang on island, and look too light anyway. I'd close the ends

Drawers. Drawers. Drawers. You'll never go back to pull-outs again! I only had pull-outs on on either side of range/last house. It was a PITA to get out pots and pans. In our new home, I have drawers for them and everything else, including dishes and glassware. The only doors in the kitchen are under the sink (was suppose to be a pull-out, but I was too tired to argue that one) and my "wall of doors" (fridge/freezer, pantries and small appliance station).

My favorite is the pan drawer. NO more digging, and the slats are removable. The cabinetmaker had never seen or made one before. It would be easy to retrofit an existing drawer, if deep enough.