Not ikea but i love my one wide bank of drawers. they are very functional. would love to have 2 sets like you do. mine have one center pull handle and are easy to open. I think the quality of the hardware and track is important. if yours are decent quality you may learn to love them.

You will love those drawers.

I have a freestanding IKEA cabinet that has the same hardware as the other kitchen cabinets (at least what they used 15 years ago). It's been used as an office supply cabinet for years which means one drawer is full of paper, so very loaded. And it's 52" wide. No sag.

It still opens and closes smoothly.

We had Ikea 36" drawers in our old house (which I miss!) for pots and pans and dishes. You'll be fine. And you will love them.

Well my mind is already at ease!! Thank you so very much sushipup2, Fori and roccouple for responding!

We also had the 36” drawers with hidden drawers for silverware, they were fantastic. A ton of pots and pans will fit in there no problem, meanwhile the hidden drawer outfitted with their ”custom” organizers to take advantage of every inch, housed my very large silverware set. Although with my new home i have a very very expensive kitchen, my previous ikea kitchen was a true marvel of organization, i still miss many of the aspects of it. Take advantage of all of what ikea offers. An organized kitchen is a clean kitchen. I especially liked the many hidden drawers we had. The face of the cabinetry can stay streamlined even though you really have a ton of drawers.

I have 3 banks of 36” drawers in my IKEA kitchen. They are awesome, and no sagging. (Even the ones holding all of my Le Creuset.)

When i think aboit it the downside is if you want to open a drawer and someone is nearby they have to move. since the drawer is so wide it happens more often and they have to move farther.

Its funny, there are always answers to kitchen questions that involve ”other”people in your kitchen workspace. Who are these people? 99% of anything that gets done in my kitchen is a 1 man show. If its the same for you, dont worry about the handful of times that somebody else is in your kitchen that you may have to move around or in other ways accomodate.

I dont have Ikea, I have “Plain & Fancy”cabinets, but 36” drawers would be great!! Mine are 32”. I have a whole side of my kitchen of just drawers. You will love large drawers!

I will be the odd one out here. I have one set of 30” drawers, and wish we had gone with nothing wider than 24”.

Just curious Akrogirl32, why?

In my current kitchen, I have two 24" stacks and for pots and pans and dishes, they are really limited usefulness.

Wider is potentially more functional if you design your space to take advantage. I'd like to see wider 42 and 48" choices from Ikea.

@sushipup2 are you saying the limited usefulness is because the drawers are too small?

Ive got two sets of the 36” base cabs with drawers from ikea. one i use for a pantry and the other hold aplliances and dishes. they are great. super smooth motion, easy to pull out and very strong. Love them!

Yes, 24" is too small for pots and pans (think handles) and dishes, too, altho not as limited, still not nearly as good as 30 or 36 drawers.

My advice use a bar type pull not 2 knobs that way the drawer always opens evenly I have IKea 36" drawers and I love them for all my pots but I use drwers for dishes too bt not next to my range since I find the best place for those drawers is next to the DW

I agree that single long pulls centered are easier to operate wide drawers; that is what we have.