I love the look of 2 pulls but the ease of 1 pull. If my hardware line had longer pulls, I would have done one pull on my 36" drawers but since they didn't I put two 5" pulls on my 36" and 1 pull on all the other drawers (they were up to 30" wide).

I have two five inch pulls on mine - one five inch on my other drawers. It seems like one twelve inch would be fine.

I've had a longer bail pull on a pot drawer before. As an adult, I *knew* to not pull on it from the side or mishandle it. However, in my home, then of four children...some teens that were in a hurry, mispulled and eventually the handle slipped out of the socket and it was a problem forevermore.

In my 36" desk drawer front there are two 5.5" bail pulls. It works great and looks proportionate. I decided to use two handles on my wider drawers in my kitchen. I'd show you but we're literally doing glazing on my doors today and they're not installed right now.

Just consider 'who' will be using the drawers and how much weight will be in those drawers before you decide on one pull or not. I would opt for two pulls. People can't use them if they're not there.

I would do one long pull, for function and aesthetics.

If you have many drawers, as we did, you will want to break up the 'small pull' monotony. One long pull is a much cleaner look on wide drawers, as well. One long pull will draw the eye across, two short will be perceived as an interruption.

Good luck!

These are such great responses -- thanks so much! My only fear with the one pull is that it's so skinny from an aesthetic standpoint.

I'll bet your new kichen will be so stunning that your pulls will be about the last thing that anyone will be analyzing.

I love one pull on mine, because I seldom have 2 hands free, and you really don't want to be using only one side to pull the drawer out crooked.

It's just personal taste. Having used one pull, 2 pulls look overdone to me now.

Hi Again...I want to make a point that some people I think are overlooking. It's not so much whether it's one pull or two on a 36" drawer. I mentioned above that we had issues with using only one BAIL PULL (-Vs- handle), which is what you showed us in your photo. The larger bail pull was insufficient for our heavy drawer and was pulled from the side by kiddos that didn't care if it broke or not. Knowing what our experience was then and if I was going to buy bail pulls again, I would use TWO smaller ones in the place of the larger ones with HOPES that both would be used.

In the kitchen we're finishing, I went with handles and knobs not bail pulls because of the issues we've had in the past. I prefer bail pulls, but I still have kiddos at home.

Thanks everyone!

Sherilynn, that's a great point about kids and the bail pulls. We have no children in the house, so that aspect would not be an issue for us, except that we aren't that careful ourselves, sometimes.

To be perfectly honest, I guess my biggest concern was aesthetics because this particular pull (the 12-inch Normandy) is skinny and not hefty looking, whereas the 7-inch version of the same pull seems thicker. But they don't make a 5-inch version, so if I went with two, we'd have two 7 inch pulls.

As i said, I'm so grateful to be on to the pulls and not still worrying over my granite selection (it's Madura gold!)
Thanks.

I add my vote to the one pull club. I knew I would grab the closest one and worried that it would mess with the slides. It just made more sense to me to go for one longer pull. I really love the look:

We found these at HD Expo, and used the same size (13.5") on 36", 33" and 24" drawers.

Those look great, Abbycat. Thanks to all!

Abbycat...I love your pulls and look of your kitchen!