We have an Ikea kitchen, and using the 5" segments, we have 5-5-10-10. Works very well.

I have three banks of three drawers each: 2 banks are 36" and one bank is 18". The two top 36" drawers have subdividers - one (mostly) for eating utensils and the other (mostly) for cooking utensils. The top 18" drawer has a spice divider. I LOVE the big drawers. The lower drawers have pots and pans, cat food, tupperware containers, dish towels, tablecloths...

I like 30-36” wide with 2 deep drawers and the the top a shallow sxs drawer those sizes I use for pots and pans and also for baking ingredients and baking utensils in my kitchen . The big thing is to think about what you need to store and where you use the stuff you store. I never like darwers behind doors it is a PITA to use . I use shallower wid drawers for spices in stainless containers where I label the top for ease of use. I actually find 48” wide drawers a bit awkward to open and close since I like just one longr pull on wide drawers, I aslo have an Ikea kitchen and love the way they give you so many options for drawer sizes . I find you take the tallest pot you have and that is what will decide the depth of at least one drawer.

Two drawers sized for Pendaflex files (with small, easy cuts in the wood for the rails) are useful if you keep household papers in the kitchen. They need strong drawer guides, readily available.

Great question! I'm following as we're remodeling a kitchen now. My parents recently redid their kitchen, and my mom has mostly 36"+ drawers that are pretty deep. She got some Ikea peg system and organized her dishes with it. The drawers are also great for seeing all the casserole dishes and serving pieces. However, whenever someone is assisting in the kitchen, everyone has to stop and back up someone can open a drawer, since they're two or three "people" wide. One thing I'm absolutely reusing in our new kitchen is a cabinet with vertical slats to hold cutting boards and baking sheets. Makes them so easy to store and see.

Study your current kitchen and pay close attention to what you have in it (and want to keep), where it's kept now and where you would like to have it in your new kitchen. I especially like my narrow pullout lower next to the cooktop with shallow spice racks on two sides of various heights. So handy.

One of the best pieces of advice I read on here, many years ago, that served me well was to make a storage map. I got a tape measure out and started measuring stuff and planned what would go where. I ended up changing cabinets based on that exercise. Let me see if can find an illustration.

ETA: here: https://www.houzz.com/discussions/2407921/the-next-step-planning-for-storage#n=5

It depends on what you want to store in the drawers. E.g., if you just one "layer" for silverware, then I would get one with a shallower top drawer. Personally, I don't like "stacked" rollouts in the same drawer; IMO, that defeats some of the purposes of having drawers (one movement to open/close). Separators, though, can be useful. Maybe not bins so much as they waste space, but separators don't waste nearly as much.

I have one 4-drawer stack that has 3 shallower drawers with a deeper bottom drawer (we use as our "bread drawer"). In the shallow drawers, I (1) silverware, (2) foil/plastic bags/wraps, and (3) electrical (extensions cords and the like)

My suggestion is to plan your storage -- look at your layout and determine what dishes, tools, utensils, pot holders, etc., you need in each Zone and select your drawer options accordingly.

Here's an example of a storage plan:

Definitely plan for your tallest pots/olive oil bottles/cereal boxes/mixer - ours fit in an 8-8-15 configuration. But didn't think of planning spots for cereal boxes (they're too tall!) so they have to be on their sides and my large mixer needs to be tucked away elsewhere. Our bar is 6-6-18ish to fit tall bottles - it works like a charm.

Thank you all for the great advice so far! I have measured things, and have a bit of a plan but wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing anything. The people here are always great to help point out the things we’re not thinking of. :)

I love my 3 sections of 30 “ drawers on the one side of my kitchen❣️

Make sure the actual clearance of the drawer (height and width) is considered. In our last kitchen, the top drawers were 6" on their face, but the frame took up so much room that the actual clearance was not deep enough to store foil, plastic wrap, baggies, etc.

If you go with wide drawers and intend to keep dishes and pots in them, get upgraded slides. That stuff can get heavy and you don't want them failing.