ᐅ How many drawers?

Hello,

I cannot install tall cabinets in my kitchen (structurally not possible).
So I have to fit everything below + 1 tall cabinet + 1 corner cabinet with a swing-out door.
I strongly assume that drawer cabinets are more expensive than regular cupboard cabinets?

But never mind...
How many large drawers would you recommend? Not the small ones for cutlery and the like.
I was thinking of storing cups, glasses, plates here. Although I also have a display cabinet in the dining room for that purpose.
Do you think one base cabinet about 1 meter (3.3 feet) wide and another about 0.5 meter (1.6 feet) wide as drawer cabinets would be enough?

How are we supposed to know how much dishware you have?

We also don’t have tall cabinets, but in our main kitchen, we have 7 or 8 cabinets with pull-out drawers—ranging from small to large, with the top drawer always small and the bottom two always large.

And yes, pull-out drawers are the most expensive option.

Well, you can only determine that yourself.

Summary for us:
In the old apartment, we had:
2x 90cm (35 inch) wall cabinets,
1x 60cm (24 inch) wall cabinet,
2x 60cm (24 inch) base cabinets, partly doors, partly drawers.

Now we have:
1x 90cm (35 inch) base cabinet with drawers,
3x 60cm (24 inch) base cabinets with drawers,
1x 120cm (47 inch) corner base cabinet with sink,
2x 75cm (30 inch) wall cabinets,
1x 60cm (24 inch) tall cabinet 235cm (92 inch),
1x 60cm (24 inch) tall cabinet 235cm (92 inch) (without oven or microwave),
1x 100cm (39 inch) wall cabinet.

AND IT STILL ISN’T ENOUGH!!!

Well, it’s kind of inconvenient to have glasses and plates stored in pull-out drawers. If you open and close them quickly or forcefully, they’re likely to rattle and could even break or chip.

I have some very sturdy glasses, but also more delicate ones, like wine glasses, which I wouldn’t necessarily want to store in drawers.

So if I can avoid having pull-out drawers here because they’re not really practical, I’d rather not have them installed at all.
I keep pots and similar items in cabinets around the stove.
Then I have a tall cabinet where I could place glasses. The base cabinets would then have to be used for what’s normally stored in the tall cabinet, which is mainly non-perishable food.

It’s all somewhat less than ideal...

How do you usually handle this?

We have

• 7.4 m (24 ft) large drawers
• 3.4 m (11 ft) "cutlery size,"
• 45 cm (18 in) US-style apothecary cabinet.
• 3.6 m (12 ft) compartments in 2 wall cabinets
• 2.4 m (8 ft) pull-outs in tall cabinets
• 3.6 m (12 ft) shelves also in tall cabinets
• 1.2 m (4 ft) shelves in a standard US cabinet without pull-outs.

In total, about 22 m (72 ft) of storage space.
We manage well with it and have even stored most of our supplies.

We don’t have any wall cabinets and store dishes and similar items exclusively in drawers.
We have six drawers each 1 meter (3.3 feet) wide, one of which has an inner pull-out. Then there are four drawers each 80 cm (31.5 inches) wide, two of those with inner pull-outs (I mean those drawers inside a drawer, that’s called an inner pull-out, right?).
There’s only a slight rattling noise in the glassware drawers, but thanks to soft-close mechanisms, there’s really no reason for concern—at least if there aren’t teenagers in the household. In other words, you’d have to be really careless or deliberately try to break something to cause damage.
For us, this setup is more than enough; we also have several tall cabinets for storage of Tupperware, Tupperware, bread boxes, rice cookers, Tupperware, kitchen towels, Tupperware, and so on.