ARA Painting & More delivers professional interior and exterior painting throughout Suffolk County, NY. From single rooms to whole-home projects, our team brings 15+ years of Long Island experience, premium materials, and meticulous prep work to every job. Licensed, insured, and backed by a 100% satisfaction guarantee.
Our interior painting services cover everything from single rooms to whole-home repaints across Suffolk County. We handle walls, ceilings, trim, cabinetry, doors, and accent features using premium Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams products. Every project starts with thorough surface preparation — patching, sanding, priming, and protecting your furniture and floors. The result is a clean, durable finish that elevates your space and stands up to daily life.
Choosing the right color transforms a room — and choosing the wrong one is an expensive mistake. Our team helps you navigate color selection with confidence, considering your existing décor, natural lighting, room function, and personal style. We work with premium Benjamin Moore and Sherwin-Williams palettes, offer in-home consultations, and can match any existing paint color you want to recreate. The result: a space that feels intentional, cohesive, and unmistakably yours.
ARA Painting & More has been Suffolk County’s trusted painting contractor for over 15 years, delivering interior and exterior painting, drywall, pressure washing, flooring, and finish carpentry to homeowners and businesses across Long Island.
ARA Painting & More is a family-operated painting company serving all of Suffolk County, NY. Owner Antelmo Ramirez brings over 15 years of professional painting and construction experience to every project, from residential interiors to luxury Hamptons exteriors.
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Aquebogue is the westernmost of the North Fork hamlets inside the Town of Riverhead, with housing stock that reflects its long agricultural history and proximity to the Long Island AVA wine region. Interior painting here moves between the older farmhouses along Main Road and Church Lane, newer homes off Edgar Avenue, and vineyard-adjacent residences near Paumanok Vineyards. We work on plaster walls and painted wood trim in the older homes, drywall and crown profiles in the newer builds, and tasting-room-adjacent interiors with scrubbable low-VOC coatings that handle guests, dogs, and daily family use. Lead-safe practices are standard on anything built before 1978, and we document surface prep so homeowners have a clear record of what was done.
Exterior work in Aquebogue has two distinct profiles. Farms along Hubbard Avenue and off Sound Avenue need barn and outbuilding paint systems that stand up to years of weather with minimal maintenance, and we finish them in industrial acrylic solid stains or oil-based primers topped with high-build acrylics. Waterfront homes along the Peconic Bay side take direct salt loading, so we lead with chloride-reducing pressure washing and alkyd stain-blocking primers before 100 percent acrylic topcoats. Historic properties like the Corwin House influence color choices in the hamlet, and we offer archival-style palettes when owners want their homes to read as period-appropriate rather than contemporary. Rot repair and re-glazing are typically bundled into exterior scope.
Our Aquebogue coverage spans the full hamlet, from the Main Road downtown core and historic Corwin House neighborhood to the farms along Hubbard Avenue and vineyard-adjacent residences near Paumanok Vineyards. We paint waterfront homes on the Peconic Bay side off Meetinghouse Creek Road, newer construction off Edgar Avenue, and farm outbuildings on the agricultural land that still defines the hamlet. Interior refreshes, full exterior repaints, and barn and outbuilding work all come through our Aquebogue schedule each season.
Yes. We regularly work on 19th and early 20th century farmhouses in Aquebogue, including homes along Main Road and Church Lane. We follow lead-safe practices, hand-scrape rather than aggressive-sand, and use alkyd stain-blocking primers compatible with soft old-growth wood.
We work on vineyard-adjacent structures across the North Fork AVA, including residences, tasting-room interiors, and outbuildings. Scheduling is coordinated to avoid harvest and spray windows when possible.
For summer-targeted exterior work we recommend booking by late winter or early spring. Our North Fork schedule from May through September fills up by mid-April in most years, so earlier booking means more flexible start dates.
On agricultural buildings we favor high-build acrylic solid stains or oil-based primer with acrylic topcoats. These are more flexible than enamel paints and handle the dimensional movement of board-and-batten and rough-sawn cedar common on North Fork barns.
Yes. Every Aquebogue project is covered by a written contract that specifies scope, surfaces, prep standards, product line, number of coats, and payment schedule. Nothing starts without a signed agreement.
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