Basically, there are no rules. Knobs or pulls or both? Wider pulls on wider drawers? Knobs on short doors and pulls on tall doors? What ever you want to do is okay with the kitchen remodeling gods.
I typically suggest knobs on doors and pulls on drawers to my customers. No reason. Just a starting point.
Some people put knobs on drawers. I caution that the knobs on the top drawers will grab your pants pockets, and you'll rip them. Same with rod pulls on top drawers, or any other pull that has a protrusion on the end.
Some people like all pulls. It's all good.
How to handle drawer stacks? Generally, we can center the pull or knob vertically on the drawer front (left), or we can keep the distance from the top of the drawer to the pull constant (right).
On wider drawers, you could put two small pulls or one extra wide pull. I prefer the latter because of the asymmetric pulling force on the drawer of the former can rack the drawer out of alignment (blum undermount glides are designed to free float at the rear bracket). It's not a huge deal because it's easy to reset the drawer box, but some people might be annoyed by it.
Two more options: integrated pulls and no hardware at all. Integrated pulls give you a real modern look, and you don't have to think about where to put them. They come installed.
For the last picture, my customer didn't want any hardware. This was a first for me. I found some push-to-open latches on Amazon. Half of them broke within a couple of month. I spent the next year coming by her house and replacing broken ones before finally showing her husband how to order them and replace them himself. I'll never do push-to-open latches again.
The other problem with push-to-open latches is the doors have to be slightly open to have enough travel to engage the spring mechanism. Nope. Never again.
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