I have to agree with myownstyle13's comment. I also have all drawers as well as in my pantry. I also have a few ultra deep ones that I keep my kitchenaid mixers and other larger kitchen gadgets!

Shins? That's coffee tables, not drawers. I have 25 drawers my kitchen. Absolute bliss!

Anything under the bench HAS to have drawers. The house I just sold had 21 in the kitchen, 9 in the butler's pantry and 9 in the laundry. Now I am renting whilst I build again and I refuse to even use the cupboards - it is just too hard on my knees to squatting all the time. None of us are getting any younger :-) In the new house, it will be drawers 100% under the bench.

Drawers all the way. You can then make efficient use of them with divider inserts.

It's a no-brainer. Drawers are functional, easy to keep clean and neat, and they look great.

Hi I'm a cabinetmaker and I cook a lot, cupboards are way cheaper to manufacture. So if it's in your budget I'd go for 90% drawers it's really only your sink cupboard.

Kitchen reno last year. Drawers everywhere, except in a couple of spots where not practical. Even my pantry has drawers - no more hard to access areas. One needs to think seriously as to depth, style and width of drawers. No item is too difficult to store. I am in my 70's, and the best kitchen I have ever had.

After years of cupboards we have drawers in our new build, including in the pantry and I will never, never go back to cupboards. Yes, they are more expensive but well worth it.

I actually have a mix of drawers and cupboards and a few shelves in my kitchen – each was chosen according to how they would be used. So there are drawers for nearly everything (crockery, saucepans, baking equipment, mixing bowls, small appliances, salad bowls, chopping boards, cutlery, tea towels, aprons, oven mitts, appliance manuals etc etc) although I have a few shallow, push to open handleless cupboards for wine glasses, bottles of alcohol, vases etc that open into the dining room. I have a few open shelves in a recessed section of wall for serving platters, large and small, and small decorative items like jugs that give me pleasure to look at as well as two shelves for cook books. I also have shelves in my pantry as well as a cupboard with pull-out wire baskets. And a wonderful tall cupboard that has the brooms, dustpan, hand-held vacuum cleaner, fire extinguisher, step ladder all stored neatly and accessibly. So a real mix of drawers and cupboards – and it works really well as well as giving me pleasure!

Simple ergonomics will tell you drawers are of greater benefit. As one posted above eluded to, your budget will determine your position in reality. Hinges are cheaper than drawers, hence cupboards are cheaper the drawers.

drawers - if you can afford them!! We have just done a new kitchen, we were on a tight budget so couldn't get as many drawers as we wanted - we are about 50/50 drawers and cupboards. Getting into a cupboard is good exercise though, uses muscles you didn't know you had! Ditch the gym membership!!!