It's perfectly practical.

Sometimes, all you need to update your kitchen or bath is a new set of cabinet pulls. Even when remodeling, cabinet hardware is often an afterthought, though they’re highly visible and frequently used ...

Does your kitchen have plenty of shelf space but not enough drawers? Drawers make organizing pots and pans so much easier because you can actually pull everything out into the light to see what you ...

If you're fabricating a new kitchen system with minimal cabinet fronts, it probably won't add that much to the cost to have such holes drilled. Could you just measure well and use a one-inch drill bit ...