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 Montauk means working inside houses that take the worst weather on the South Fork — ocean on three sides, almost no mature tree canopy, and winter winds that top 70 miles per hour. The hamlet's housing stock runs the full spectrum: Carl Fisher's 1920s Tudor Revival development around Montauk Highway and the village plaza, Stanford White's 1880s shingle-style cottages at Montauk Point, 200 1960s Leisurama prefabs at Culloden Point, and new modern builds in Hither Hills and Ditch Plains. We paint them all. Our interior work hand-brushes original Tudor plaster, sprays enamel on modern built-ins with HEPA extraction, and uses low-VOC coatings in surf-shack rentals so owners can turn units over the same weekend without off-gassing complaints.
Exterior painting in Montauk is where the hardest work happens on the East End. Ditch Plains, Rough Riders Landing, and the Lighthouse all take direct Atlantic exposure, and no amount of overpriced paint survives there without proper prep. We hand-scrape, prime bare wood with alkyd-modified primers, replace rotted shingle, and use breathable semi-transparent stain on cedar. Camp Hero State Park and Hither Hills State Park create wind corridors that pull color out of cheap acrylic in a season; we use top-tier 100% acrylic for trim and quality marine primers at every joint. The Montauk Point Lighthouse — the fourth-oldest active lighthouse in the US, completed in 1796 — sits in weather that teaches every local painter what prep actually means.
Montauk runs from the Napeague stretch east past Hither Hills State Park, through the village plaza and Fort Pond, out to Ditch Plains, and finally to the Lighthouse at Camp Hero. We paint interiors in Tudor Revival cottages near the plaza, exterior repaints on 1880s Stanford White shingle homes near Montauk Point, and full repaints on Ditch Plains surf cottages. The commercial fishing fleet at Montauk Harbor is the largest in New York State, which means we also work on dockside houses that take spray every winter.
Late May through mid-June and mid-September through early October. Montauk's fog, salt air, and nighttime cold run later into spring and earlier into fall than the rest of the East End, so cure windows are narrower than in Bridgehampton or East Hampton.
Trim on direct Atlantic exposure typically needs touch-up every 3 to 5 years, and cedar shingle needs restaining every 5 to 7 years. Montauk weather is the harshest on the South Fork, so premium 100% acrylic and marine-grade primers are not optional.
Yes. Carl Fisher's 1926-1932 Tudor development built approximately 30 buildings around the village plaza. We hand-brush half-timber trim, use alkyd-modified primers at every joint where stucco meets wood, and preserve original window sash and casings.
Yes. Montauk's weather creates more rot than any other South Fork hamlet. We replace cedar shingle, pine trim boards, and window sills with matching stock, prime end grain with alkyd, and seal every joint before topcoat. Painting over rot is throwing money away here.
Yes. Many Ditch Plains homes rent weekly during summer and need fast interior turnover. We stage repaints Sunday night through Thursday with low-VOC coatings that cure in under 24 hours so units are ready for Friday check-in.
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