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 sits ferry-only between the North and South Forks of Long Island, with about 3,253 year-round residents and a summer population that pushes past 20,000. Interior painting here is logistics as much as craft: our crews stage materials off-island, book North Ferry from Greenport or South Ferry from North Haven, and plan around tide-timed ferry windows so projects stay on schedule. We paint plaster walls in Center hamlet farmhouses, tongue-and-groove ceilings in Shore Road waterfront houses, and tight stairwells in Victorian cottages up in Shelter Island Heights. Homes built before 1978 are treated as presumed lead-containing, with EPA RRP-certified containment, HEPA vacuuming, and documented cleanup before any sanding or scraping begins.
Exterior work on Shelter Island is defined by Shelter Island Sound on three sides and Gardiners Bay to the east, with nor'easters pushing salt spray across almost every neighborhood during storm season. Cedar shingles on the Ram Island peninsula weather fast, and painted clapboard along Shore Road or near Crescent Beach can lose a season of coating in a single wet winter. We pressure-wash with a chloride-neutralizing rinse, replace or re-glaze divided-light sashes on 19th-century homes, and burn or chemically strip failed oil layers rather than painting over them. For homes inside the Shelter Island Heights Historic District, we route color selections and material samples past the Heights Association before scheduling exterior work.
Our Shelter Island crews cover every reach of the island, from the ferry terminals at Bridge Street and Rocky Point to the Center hamlet, the Historic District up in the Heights, and the summer colonies ringing Ram Island and West Neck. We paint waterfront houses along Shore Road and Peconic Avenue, Carpenter Gothic cottages in Shelter Island Heights, and newer builds inside the Dering Harbor village line. Projects frequently include trim and sash restoration on Victorian-era homes and full exterior repaints for year-round owners near Crescent Beach and Mashomack Preserve.
We stage paint, primers, and equipment at our shop before each ferry crossing so a single North Ferry or South Ferry run covers the day's materials. Crews travel with the trucks, and we build ferry wait times into every schedule so a homeowner is not billed for crew hours stuck in a line at Greenport or North Haven.
Yes. Properties that contribute to the 141-building Shelter Island Heights 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 pull samples and documentation together before any exterior color or material change is scheduled.
Homes along Shore Road, Ram Island, and the Peconic and Gardiners Bay shorelines take direct salt spray during nor'easters, and coatings can fail a full season earlier than on inland Suffolk properties. We counter it with chloride-neutralizing washdowns, stain-blocking alkyd primers, and 100 percent acrylic topcoats rated for coastal exposure.
Shoulder-season windows from mid-April through June and from early September through late October are usually ideal. Summer is possible but renter calendars and ferry traffic get in the way, and winter freeze-thaw cycles stop most reliable curing. We book coastal exteriors against the forecast, not the calendar.
Yes. Many Heights cottages still carry original divided-light sashes with mortise-and-tenon joinery worth saving. We scrape, re-glaze, prime, and finish sashes on site or pull them to the shop. Full replacement is a last resort and almost never required to deliver a durable finish.
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