Local painting company serving the Oakland and San Leandro area with a focus on careful prep, fine finishes, and consistent communication. Work often includes interiors, exteriors, detailed trim, and historic refreshes.
Clients cite attentive project management, careful prep, and consistent follow-through. The crew is described as respectful on site, detail-oriented with trim and woodwork, and responsive to questions throughout the job.
Oakland, San Leandro, and surrounding East Bay neighborhoods within the greater San Francisco Bay Area.
Interior and exterior house painting, commercial repainting, woodwork and trim finishing, cabinet and door refinishing, surface prep and repairs, color and finish coordination, and historic/home refresh projects.
Customers repeatedly mention meticulous craftsmanship, especially on woodwork and trim, and praise the team’s care around job sites. Many note responsive communication from project leads and willingness to address concerns promptly. Designers and consultants highlight reliability and detail-oriented execution. Homeowners also reference clean prep practices and strong results on whole-house exteriors.
Having partnered with Arana Craftsman Painters on numerous projects, I cannot recommend Catherine and her team highly enough.They are true artisans who bring a level of meticulous craftsmanship to their work that goes far beyond standard painting. What sets them apart, however, is their genuine dedication to the client; Catherine is incredibly responsive and ensures every concern is addressed immediately. It’s rare to find a team that stands so firmly behind their work while being such a pleasure to collaborate with. Highly recommended!
We love working with Arana! Their crew is thoughtful and sensitive to client needs on site. The attention to detail is wonderful and they really work to get it right. We have done several historic restorations and refreshes with them and the transformation of the woodwork is incredible. Highly recommend!
When I hired Arana to paint my home -- a whole-house exterior project -- in 2014, I had PTSD. My next door neighbor had recently had her house painted and my experience of being next door during that process was horrible. Her painters didn't even contact me the day they were starting and my windows were OPEN when they were sanding my neighbor's wood window sills, that first morning.Not only that, but HER painters did not put down any kind of protection and the pre 1970s paint chips were just floating down on to her plants and flowers, and mine.I called Catherine Baldi at Arana for help. Our kids attended school together and she was a friend. She helped me through the process of reporting these negligent painters to the appropriate city office, stopping them from spreading more lead and doing more damage.THUS, when it was my turn to paint my house, I knew whom I could call.Arana Craftsman Painters not only observes the latest lead safety practices, but also they work very cleanly and are very thorough about protecting surrounding foliage and non-work surfaces.Plus, as part of my whole-house contract, they provided a color consultant, Cass Morris, who came to my house with her box of samples and, taking in the paint schemes of my neighbors on either side, the flowers in our garden, and my and my spouse's personal preferences, she came up with a color scheme that we LOVED, that absolutely highlighted the architecture of our dear 1924 arts-and-crafts era home, and blended beautifully with the neighborhood; even in a way helping to distract from the less than stellar color choices of our neighbors on either side! Our color scheme both worked to harmonize the whole block, and stood out in a way that was tasteful, rather than being distracting or out-of-place.Full disclosure, a few years later I became a marketing writer for the company and my involvement there is visible on their website. But that is also a testimonial because I only work with clients who put their hearts into their work, and whom I believe in.Arana is that kind of company.
I’m an architectural color consultant and have worked with Arana Craftsman Painters on many projects. They consistently stand out as one of the best in the industry—always professional, detail-oriented, and truly skilled at what they do. Their team understands how to bring a home to life with precision and care.I've worked with a variety of painting companies, and Arana is one I’m always happy to recommend. They’re reliable, respectful, and consistently deliver high-quality results. My clients are always happy with Arana.— Kate Pocrass, Color Theory Design Studio
It’s hard not to stand on a rooftop and sing the praises of Catherine Baldi, principal of Arana Craftsman Painters. She’s sincere, authentic, professional, and kind. Their work is exquisite and clean. She and her staff always answer the phone, they fix anything on a job that ever goes wrong -- the need for which is rare because they are so good at what they do. She treats her employees like family; she brings people under her wing and grooms them and they stay with the company long-term. Over the years we have referred dozens of projects, interior and exterior paint and wallpaper jobs, and we look forward to referring dozens more.
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