Still struggling to find the perfect pull and very tired of trying to open my drawers without them! Ordered samples from Ebay....too cheap, not a good finish and didn't look like the threaded hole was deep enough to hold up. Found one a liked online, multiplied the cost by the number I needed for my SMALL kitchen and about had a heart attack. Still on the hunt but I am ordering something by the end of this week.

Have you tried the trick of using painter's tape as a temporary drawer pull? Just wondering since you say it's hard to open them now.

I find it very helpful to see pulls/knobs in person and make sure they are comfortable to my fingers before I commit. My kitchen ones are by Amerock and I was able to find all that I needed at a local hardware store. (Lucky, I know.) I have bought pulls at the big-box stores and been happy with those too, if I was going for something mainstream.

We have tip-out trays in the kitchen so it wasn't a decision there, but I did add a pull to our non-tipout drawer front at the laundry room sink since I wanted to hang a hand towel from it. I think it's just personal preference.

my sister has 2 handles - split pullouts. I think it might depend on how high the counter top is and how tall a person is... at my sister's I would more likely bruise my boobs!

or if it's because you are actually DOING dishes that might be why I am still unbruised. I don't do dishes there - just fill my water jug from her filtered water spout.

Yes, hardware is $$$$$$$

Our kitchen hardware we purchased on ebay from the knob shop. They are not installed yet but so far like the way they look and feel. Less than $60 for the entire kitchen.

There has been no negative for us.

No one has pulled our false fronts off, nor have they tried.

Also, I have no idea how someone could get a bruise from the hardware. That always confuses me... how hardcore do you people wash the dishes? haha. If I were to lean forward to do dishes, I would hit the countertop before I hit the hardware (a cup pull.) It might be a good idea, in general, to not have hardware that projects past the countertop.

I didn't in my last house and I thought it looked a little bit like it was missing something so I thought I would throw the question out there and see what others had done.

Thanks to those for the tips on places to look and the painters tape trick. I am definitely fighing with the soft close drawers to get them open without handles.

Make sure you use long pieces of tape. Double it onto itself about 2/3 of the way to make a decent length "handle" part that sticks out the front of the drawers/doors and then leave about 1/3 of exposed tape to stick to the inside of the drawer/door front. There were some drawers where I kept breaking the tape and had to make new pulls.

We don't have anything on our sink panel - DH was adamant about this. I doubt we'd have the kind of company that wants to help wash up enough to be worried about them yanking hard on false pulls/knobs, though. I'd think someone would really have to grab the pulls and lean back and put some weight in it for even the remotest chance that I'd be worried about it.

I thought it looked slightly strange just being this flat 36" expanse - for about a week. It's about the last thing that I or anyone would notice in our kitchen now, believe me.