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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Southold anchors the North Fork with a settlement history reaching back to 1640, and that heritage shows up inside its homes. Interior painting here means working around original wide-plank floors, hand-plastered walls near Founders Landing, and the painted beadboard that fills kitchens and mudrooms along Horton Lane, Boisseau Avenue, and the lanes off Main Road. We prep every surface honestly, scraping brittle oil-based layers from older sashes, skim-coating hairline cracks that open with winter heating cycles, and sealing knots in pine trim before topcoats. Full-time residents near the Southold Historical Museum and seasonal owners along Paradise Point ask for different finishes, and we tailor sheen, scrub rating, and VOC levels to each household's use.
Exterior painting in Southold has to answer to Long Island Sound on the north and Peconic Bay on the south, which doubles the salt load on siding compared with Hamptons work farther inland. Cedar shingles along Pine Neck Road weather fast on windward elevations, and clapboard homes near the Horton Point Light pick up UV damage on south faces well before the sheltered sides fail. We power-wash to lift chloride residue, spot-prime bare cedar with alkyd stain-blockers, and finish with acrylic solid or semi-transparent stains that stay flexible through freeze-thaw cycles. Trim colors on Founders Landing properties are often reviewed under Town of Southold historic guidelines, and we coordinate color submittals so homeowners stay compliant without delaying the schedule.
From the harbor at Founders Landing to the quiet residential streets around Horton Lane and Boisseau Avenue, our crews cover the full hamlet. We paint waterfront cottages on Paradise Point, farmhouses along Oregon Road, and village homes near the Southold Historical Museum. Projects regularly include trim refreshes before summer at properties near Horton Point Lighthouse and full exteriors for year-round residents off Main Road. Wherever your home sits in Southold, we bring the same prep-first approach that holds up to North Fork salt air.
The Town of Southold has designated historic properties and districts where exterior changes, including paint on certain contributing structures, may require Landmarks Preservation Commission review. We help homeowners prepare the color submittal and sample boards before work begins so there are no stop-work surprises.
Properties exposed to both the Sound and Peconic Bay get hit from two sides, and chloride accumulation shortens a typical exterior repaint cycle. We counter that with chloride-removal pressure washing, alkyd stain-blocking primers on bare cedar, and 100% acrylic topcoats formulated for marine exposure.
Mid-May through early October gives the most stable surface temperatures for exterior coatings on the North Fork. We avoid high-humidity stretches in August when morning dew lingers on north-facing shingles, and we schedule stain work on cedar before the first hard frost in late October.
Yes. Many Southold homeowners want new shingles blended with existing silvered cedar rather than a factory-new tone. We use semi-transparent weathering stains and selective bleaching oils so new work settles into the existing color within one or two seasons.
Yes. We regularly combine interior repaints, drywall repair, and full exterior refreshes on year-round and seasonal homes in Southold, and sequencing both services with one crew keeps the overall timeline shorter than hiring separate contractors.
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