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.
Licensed, insured, and backed by 100% customer satisfaction. License #: HI-71777.
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Cold Spring Harbor is an affluent North Shore village straddling the Nassau–Suffolk line, with 19th-century whaling-era homes along Main Street, waterfront estates on the harbor, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory campus to the north. Interior painting here demands the finish quality the housing stock calls for — plaster walls that need skim-coating, original wood trim and cased openings that benefit from oil-based or hybrid primers before topcoat, and bathrooms and kitchens in older homes that often need full prep sequences before paint. We spec Benjamin Moore Aura or Regal Select on walls, Advance or Emerald Urethane on trim. Interior projects run 5-8 days on a typical village home, longer on larger harbor estates.
Exteriors in Cold Spring Harbor face Long Island Sound exposure plus the historic context of the village core. Village homes often need prep that respects original materials — hand-scraping, feathering, spot-priming knotty cedar, and preserving original wood trim profiles. Waterfront estates get full coastal-rated systems — alkyd stain-blocking primers, two coats of marine-grade 100% acrylic. We work carefully with Historic District considerations where they apply, matching existing colors or working from period-appropriate palettes. Cedar shingle homes get stain-vs-paint discussions. Trim, shutters, doors, and gatehouse coordination round out typical Cold Spring Harbor projects.
Cold Spring Harbor straddles the Nassau–Suffolk border with the village core along Main Street (Route 25A), waterfront estates lining the harbor, and the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory campus anchoring the north end. The Cold Spring Harbor Whaling Museum, Cold Spring Harbor State Park, and the SPCA Fish Hatchery all sit within walking distance of each other in this compact, historic North Shore village.
Yes. We handle Federal, Greek Revival, and Victorian-era homes with the prep and finish care required — careful scrape, feather, oil-based or hybrid primer on original trim, premium latex topcoats. Historic color matching available.
Yes. Harbor-side estates with main house, carriage house, pool house, and gatehouse get coordinated multi-structure cycles. We ensure consistent palette across all buildings and work in sequence to minimize disruption.
Thorough wash before any paint touches the surface, scrape to feathered edge, spot-prime bare wood with alkyd stain-blocker, two coats of 100% acrylic rated for coastal exposure. Finish life runs 6-9 years waterfront, 8-10 years inland.
Yes. Original wood sashes, muntins, and trim get hand-prep: careful scrape, sand, glazing repair if needed, primer, two coats of exterior-grade finish. We never recommend replacing original wood windows that can be restored.
Peak-season (April-October) lead time is typically 3-4 weeks given the prep intensity these homes require. Shorter in off-season. Written estimate confirms a firm start window.
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