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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Interior painting in Hampton Bays serves a year-round community that doesn't shrink to 15% occupancy every winter like the villages east of the Shinnecock Canal. The housing stock mixes mid-century ranches north of Montauk Highway, condo complexes on Canoe Place, 1970s raised ranches around Red Creek Pond, and newer waterfront builds on Rampasture Road and Dune Road. We hand-brush trim, roll premium acrylics on living areas, and spray built-ins with HEPA extraction. Our interior crews work year-round because residents actually live here year-round, and we price repaints for people who still work for a living rather than only summer-only estate owners.
Exterior painting in Hampton Bays answers to three different water bodies: Peconic Bay to the north, Shinnecock Bay through the Shinnecock Canal and Shinnecock Inlet, and Tiana Bay on the west. All three push salt. The 1938 hurricane cut the Shinnecock Inlet and remade the local coastline, and the Ponquogue Bridge is the Dune Road lifeline connecting the hamlet to the barrier beach. Homes within a half-mile of any of these water bodies take hard salt loading. We use breathable semi-transparent stains on cedar shingle, 100% acrylic on painted trim, and marine-grade alkyd primers at every joint. The second-busiest commercial fishing port in New York State sits here, and dockside houses need the same prep as oceanfront cottages in Montauk.
Hampton Bays wraps around the Shinnecock Canal from Peconic Bay on the north to Shinnecock Bay on the south, with Dune Road running out to Tiana Beach and Ponquogue. We paint interiors in the Canoe Place and Red Creek Pond neighborhoods, exterior repaints along Rampasture Road, and full repaints on Dune Road barrier-beach cottages facing the Atlantic. The Good Ground Windmill and the Shinnecock Canal both anchor the hamlet's working-maritime character, and we match our prep to how hard each water body pushes salt into the siding.
The canal connects Peconic Bay to Shinnecock Bay and pushes constant saltwater exchange. Homes within a quarter-mile of the canal take salt from both bodies at once, so trim paint typically needs refresh every 5 to 7 years and cedar shingle restained every 6 to 8 years with breathable stain.
Red cedar shingle takes breathable semi-transparent stain; painted trim gets alkyd-modified marine primer and a 100% acrylic topcoat with documented UV resistance. Dune Road exposure matches Atlantic oceanfront in Southampton and Westhampton — among the harshest paint environments on Long Island.
Yes. Hampton Bays has a large year-round population unlike villages east of the Shinnecock Canal. We paint occupied homes October through April, run low-VOC coatings so families stay in-place, and schedule heated interior work through winter.
Yes. We handle marina offices, charter-boat sheds, and dockside buildings with direct-to-metal primers, marine-grade alkyds, and 100% acrylic topcoats specified for constant salt-spray exposure. The Hampton Bays commercial fleet lives in this environment every day.
Late April through mid-June and mid-September through mid-October are the reliable cure windows. We also schedule heated interior work year-round and exterior touch-ups during dry stretches in July and August when storms are less frequent.
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