As a finish carpenter for over 40 years, and having drilled and installed thousands of cabinet knobs and pulls, my answer to all of your questions is ...whatever looks good to YOU!

In other words, in most cases there is no right or wrong. I suggest holding the pulls, or placing them with tape or sticky stuff in different locations and then deciding what suits your eye. Other than centered and level/plumb there are really no hard and fast rules as to placement of hardware.

We have a 37" drawer stack with 2 pulls. We divided the drawer with in half and centered the pulls on each half...does that make sense? I'm sorry, it's too early right now to do the actual math on that!

When using 2, divide the cabinet fronts into thirds, vertically and horizontally. Center the pulls over the 1/3 lines from side to side, and right at the 1/3 line from top to bottom.

You have a perfect opportunity, with pulls spaced two different ways, to actually see which you like better. Pull out the odd drawer (or drawers), and see how it looks to you. Maybe both look off - in which case you get three new fronts.

Good luck!

I think the top 2 drawers look better than the bottom drawer. Not sure which method used to install them but they def look better.

before I read your explanations, I was already liking the top 2 drawers more than the bottom one. If you ONLY used the bottom spacing, I'd probably think it's ok... but with the top spacing in evidence, I definitely prefer that. The bottom spacing looks too close in comparison.

Agree, top drawers = better

Thank you for the reassurance. I do like how they match the reveal on the drawer stack on the left.

My guess is that's what the installer was trying for on the top drawers, not realizing or forgetting that we had specified something different, and thus inadvertently did us a favor. Not sure what happened on the bottom drawer, but at least it's an easy fix.

We'll have them replace the bottom drawer and go with the same spacing as on the top two drawers.

Now to the next question: do you center the pulls top to bottom, as it is now, or do you space them the same distance from the top stile?

I would do the latter, so I didn't have to lean over as far to open the drawer.

Oh, I didn't even think of that. We always assumed we would center them, like we did everywhere else. Granted this is the tallest drawer by far, but I think it may look too strange to have them off center vertically. I guess we can try it out, just to see how it looks.

Definitely centered between the top and bottom rails. We'll have to bend over an additional few inches, but it just looked wrong being off center.