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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Shelter Island Heights grew out of an 1870s Methodist camp meeting ground, and the architecture still reflects that origin: closely spaced Carpenter Gothic, Queen Anne, and Bungalow-Craftsman cottages wrapped in porches, brackets, and gingerbread trim. The Heights Historic District covers roughly 105 acres and 141 contributing buildings, which means interior painting here is detail work. Our crews cut into complex trim profiles, protect original beadboard ceilings and horsehair plaster, and prime old lath with vapor-permeable sealers so walls can still breathe through a wet Long Island winter. Everything built before 1978 is treated as presumed lead-containing and run under EPA RRP-certified lead-safe practices with full containment and documented post-work cleanup.
Exterior work in the Heights is a different animal from standard East End painting. Decorative Carpenter Gothic bargeboards, scroll-sawn brackets, and turned balusters trap moisture if coated too thick, and tightly packed cottages mean one neighbor's scaffold is another neighbor's view line. We hand-scrape and sand before we spray, back-brush every topcoat on porch railings and jigsaw trim, and use high-grade acrylics tuned for the salt air off Peconic Bay. The Shelter Island Heights Historic District was added to the National Register in 1993, so we route color choices, replacement trim stock, and material samples through the Heights Association before any visible exterior change is scheduled.
Our Heights crews cover every street inside the historic district, from the Chase Avenue and Grand Avenue cottages overlooking Dering Harbor to the tightly packed porches along Prospect Avenue, Summerfield Place, and Waverly Place. We paint shingle-and-trim exteriors on Grove Street, interior rooms in Highland Avenue cottages, and full repaints on the larger shingle-style homes that ring the Heights above the North Ferry landing. Many of our projects involve 19th-century divided-light sash restoration and Carpenter Gothic trim work that would not survive a standard-crew approach.
Properties contributing to the historic district can be subject to review by the Heights Association and the local preservation body for exterior changes that affect historic character. We help homeowners submit palette samples and documentation before scheduling exterior work so approvals do not stall the project.
Yes. Most Heights trim is scroll-sawn softwood that can be scraped, consolidated with wood epoxy where needed, primed with a long-oil alkyd, and finished with a high-grade acrylic. Full replacement means custom-milling stock to match period profiles and is a last resort we only take when the piece is beyond repair.
Nearly every contributing cottage predates 1978, so we treat them as presumed lead-containing and follow EPA RRP-certified lead-safe practices. That includes plastic containment, HEPA vacuuming, wet methods for scraping, and verified cleanup before any new primer or topcoat goes on.
On exposed west-facing walls we lean on 100 percent acrylic topcoats over alkyd stain-blocking primers, with marine-grade caulks at trim joints. On cedar-shingle sections we often use semi-transparent weathering stains that renew easily without heavy stripping.
Yes. Mid-September through early November and late April through June are often our busiest Heights windows because year-round owners can let crews inside while short-term rental calendars are clear. We schedule exterior work against the forecast rather than the tourism calendar.
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