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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East Marion is a quiet country hamlet between Greenport and Orient Point, with housing that includes historic farmhouses on Main Road (NY 25), bed-and-breakfast properties along the state route, and cottages set back on lanes toward the bays and inlets that define the hamlet. Interior painting here spans original plaster and painted wood trim in older farmhouses, drywall and crown profiles in newer builds, and painted beadboard in the many cottages set near Dam Pond and Pipes Cove. We lead-safe prep anything built before 1978, skim-coat cracked plaster, and finish in low-VOC washable sheens that handle seasonal occupancy swings. The Tuthill house on Village Lane and other older structures inform the way we match historic colors and sheen in homes nearby.
Exterior work in East Marion is defined by heavy coastal exposure: the hamlet sits between Long Island Sound to the north and Orient Harbor and the bay to the south, with the Orient Beach State Park peninsula just beyond. Cedar shingles weather fast on windward elevations, and clapboard trim along NY 25 catches daily UV and salt. We power-wash with chloride-reducing rinses, spot-prime bare cedar with alkyd stain-blockers, and finish with 100 percent acrylic topcoats or semi-transparent weathering stains depending on the look. The bed-and-breakfast properties along the state route often need shoulder-season repaints to avoid guest-booking windows, and we schedule those in April through May or late September through October.
Our East Marion coverage includes the full hamlet from the Main Road corridor and the Blue Inn vicinity to the back lanes near Dam Pond, Pipes Cove, and Village Lane. We paint historic farmhouses, bed-and-breakfast properties along NY 25, cottages near the waterfront, and newer construction on inland lots. Projects regularly include full exterior repaints for year-round owners, interior refreshes before guest season at B&Bs, and historic-sensitive color work on older homes near the Tuthill house.
Yes. Several of our East Marion jobs are B&B owners who need shoulder-season repaints. We schedule in April through May or late September through October to avoid peak booking windows and work with the owner on access and daily cleanup.
East Marion sits between the Sound and the bay, so exteriors see salt from two sides. We counter that with chloride-reducing pressure washing, alkyd stain-blocking primers on bare cedar, and 100 percent acrylic topcoats formulated for marine exposure.
Yes. Older homes near Village Lane and the Tuthill house are part of our regular East Marion workload. We follow lead-safe practices, hand-scrape rather than aggressive-sand, and match historic sheens and colors when owners want period-appropriate finishes.
On cedar shingles, we typically use semi-transparent weathering stains that renew easily without heavy stripping. For owners who want a painted look, we use alkyd stain-blocking primers followed by 100 percent acrylic solid stain or paint rated for cedar.
Yes. We offer finish carpentry — rot cutout, replacement trim, re-glazing of original sashes — alongside painting, so East Marion homeowners don't need to coordinate separate trades before a repaint.
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