A mountain home at night under the Milky Way, with low path lights along the drive

Landscape lighting in Utah

Design the night.

We walk your property at dusk, draw the plan, show you the light after dark and aim every fixture by eye. HK Luxury and Colorscaping, designed and installed by AudioWorks across the Wasatch Front and Park City.

See how we design For landscape pros

Design first

The fixture is the last decision.

A beautiful result comes from what you light, what you leave dark and who stands there after sunset to get it right. That is the work.

We walk it at dusk

We walk the property with you as the light fades. We look at how you arrive, where you sit and what you see from inside. We mark what deserves light and what should stay dark.

A pencil sketch of a modern home and landscape, with the lit lawn drawn in yellow

We draw it

You get a scaled plan and a fixture schedule: every location, beam, wire run and transformer. Where a permit needs it, the same plan carries the fixture table the city or county asks for.

A person crouched on a lawn at night under a lit tree, studying the light

We show you at night

We bring fixtures to your home after dark, so you see the effect on your own property before you buy.

Hiroshi Kira reaching up to aim a light in a tree at night

We aim it at night

Light gets aimed after dark, by eye, at the end of the install. Trees grow and beds fill in, so we come back and re-aim.

The demonstration

One home, two nights

Same house, same trees. Tap between the two palettes and watch what changes, including the sky.

A drawn mountain home at night with lit trees, a lit stone wall and path lights

Illustration. Not a lighting plan.

The trees and stone carry the scene

Light on the trees, the stone and the architecture, with path and step light to bring you in. Many homes along the Wasatch Front can do this. Some cities limit it, and Cottonwood Heights prohibits up-lighting, so we read your code first.

Trees lit from below
Stone washed from the ground up
Warm path and step light from the drive to the door
Colorscaping adds tunable white and color, on a schedule

What we would reach for

HK ARTOAL16: Accent on mature trees
HK 1-inch In-Grade: Wall wash on stone
HK Radius: Path
Colorscaping: Tunable white and color

Start a design For landscape pros

A large tree lighting its own lawn from above, with a stone home glowing behind it — Moonlight from the canopy, where code allows it. Image: HK Lighting

A stone patio and dining table at night beside a glass wall, with a lit tree — A stone patio at night. Image: HK Lighting

A wood deck at dusk with small in-grade lights along its edge and mountains beyond — 1-inch In-Grade in a deck. Image: HK Lighting

A multi-level mountain home at dusk with layered landscape lighting among pines — Layered light on a hillside, where code allows it. Image: HK Lighting

A stacked stone wall washed with light from in-grade fixtures beside a pool at dusk — In-grade wall wash, where code allows it. Image: HK Lighting

A hand-drawn design sketch of a round outdoor light fixture, with construction lines and notes — A design sketch from HK Lighting. Image: HK Lighting

What a design decides

Most of the work is choosing what not to light.

What stays dark. Contrast is what makes a tree or a step read at night. Most of the property gets left alone.
What you see first. The arrival, the front door and the view from the kitchen window.
How you move. Paths and steps get enough light to walk with confidence, and no more.
What shows at noon. Where a fixture sits decides whether you notice it by day.
Who else sees it. The light stays on your property, off the neighbors and out of the sky.

Hiroshi Kira in a shop apron beside a machine tool, holding a part — Hiroshi Kira, founder of HK Lighting. Image: HK Lighting

HK Luxury

A fixture built like a machine part.

Hiroshi Kira trained in industrial design under Henry Dreyfuss, and in 1986 he introduced one of the first outdoor accent lights. HK still builds to that idea: small, exact and made to last.

Machined from billet. Path, accent and flood fixtures start as 6061-T6 aircraft-grade aluminum. HK anodizes them, then powder coats them to a marine-grade finish.
Solid brass in the ground. The 1-inch Step and Marker is solid brass with 316 stainless hardware.
Sealed and tested. IP67 on path and accent fixtures and IP68 in the ground. HK tests fixtures for water tightness and light quality at the end of the line.
Light without glare. Precision optics and glare shields keep your eye on the tree or the path, and off the fixture.
Quiet by day. A 1-inch post or a 1-inch bezel. The fixtures look as considered at noon as the light does at night.

RadiusResidential Systems Best of Show and a Technology Designer Performance Award, CEDIA Expo 2026
1-inch In-GradeCEDIA Smart Home Award and a Technology Designer Performance Award, CEDIA Expo 2026
ARTOAL16CEDIA Smart Home Award, Best New Hardware 2025

Built for here

What a Utah winter asks of a fixture

Snow, salt and hard freezes find every weak seal and thin finish. Here is what each one does, and what HK builds against it.

An HK accent light running in heavy rain

Freeze and thaw

Water that gets inside a fixture freezes and pushes it apart. HK seals path and accent fixtures to IP67 and in-grade fixtures to IP68, and weep holes let water shed from the lens.

Water beading on the lens of a lit HK fixture

Snowmelt and salt

Salt goes after thin finishes and soft metal. HK anodizes the aluminum before the powder coat goes on, and uses solid brass with 316 stainless hardware in the ground.

A see-through view of the locking swivel inside an HK accent light

Ground that moves

Frost and settling push fixtures out of aim. HK's locking swivel holds the aim you set, and we come back to re-aim as the site and the plants change.

Two hands lifting the LED module out of an HK fixture

The long run

HK warrants the enclosure for life to the original purchaser, the LED for five years and other products for one year. The LED and lenses can be serviced in the field.

These are HK's published specifications. HK rates its finish to marine grade and states no snow or road-salt test on the pages we read, so we claim none here.

Dark sky

Up here, the night sky is the design brief.

Park City and unincorporated Summit County prohibit landscape lighting as most people picture it. No lit trees, no washed walls, no up-lights on the house. A good design starts there, and it can still be beautiful: warm pools of light on the ground, and a sky full of stars.

Area	Prohibited	Limits	Still open to design
Park CityLand Management Code 15-5-5(J)	Up-lighting, architectural lighting, landscape lighting, unshielded floods and spots, and light that moves.	3,000K maximum. Fully shielded unless exempt. On ridge lines and steep slopes, floodlights are out and the code favors ground-level fixtures.	Path lights, which skip the shielding rule under 18 inches and under 300 lumens. Pool and water-feature light. Gas lights. String lights on decks, porches and patios. Seasonal lights November 1 to March 1, off by 11 p.m.
Snyderville BasinSummit County Code 10-4-21	Landscape lighting meant to accent or draw attention. Architectural accent lighting. Up-lighting of buildings and structures. Light that moves.	3,000K maximum. Full cutoff fixtures, with a narrow exemption under 1,000 lumens. 2,000 lumens per lamp and 20,000 lumens per residence.	Low voltage LED and solar path lights in residential areas, 18 inches or lower, aimed down. Holiday lights November 15 to March 1.
Eastern Summit CountySummit County Code 11-6-20	Landscape lighting meant to accent or draw attention. Architectural accent lighting. Up-lighting of buildings and structures. Light that moves.	3,000K maximum. Full cutoff fixtures, with a narrow exemption under 1,000 lumens. This covers the unincorporated county.	Low voltage and solar path lights, 18 inches or lower. Holiday lights November 15 to February 1.

Cottonwood Heights

Prohibits up-lighting at homes and caps color at 3,000K. Light on a vertical surface must aim down. The code caps total lumens by the net acre.

Heber City

New buildings, homes included, must use full cutoff exterior lighting.

Midway

Adopted a stricter ordinance in 2022. On new construction, soffit lights go only directly above porches and decks.

Unincorporated Wasatch County

KPCW reported in December 2024 that the one rule for homes prohibits light trespass onto a neighbor.

The rest of the Wasatch Front

Rules change from city to city. We read the code for your address before we draw.

HOAs and design review

An HOA or a design review board can go further than the city. We read those guidelines too.

Our plain-language read of each code, November 2026. Codes change and the code text controls, so we check the current text for your address during design.

The HK fixtures we use for it

HK lists these for Dark Sky use. The code at your address still decides the height, the output and the count, and that is why we draw it first.

Path light

Radius

Smooth 360 degree light from a dark stem. Wider spacing means fewer fixtures on the path. Radius Solar needs no wire.

18 or 24 inches. 120 to 315 lumens. 2700K or 3000K. IP67.

Mini path light

ARTOPLMB

A slim post that throws soft light to one side or to both. It suits narrow paths and low plantings.

18 inches. 50 lumens. 2700K or 3000K. IP67.

Low path light

ARTOPLLT

A 1-inch square post with a soft pool of light all the way around. At 12 inches it nearly disappears by day.

12 or 24 inches. 125 lumens. 2700K or 3000K. IP67.

A small covered in-grade marker light set flush in pavers

Step and in-grade light

1-inch Step and Marker

Solid brass, set flush in a step or a walk. HK lists the Top Cover 180, Top Cover 360 and Path/Wall Wash trims for Dark Sky use.

150 lumens. 2700K or 3000K. IP68.

A path light in warm white with a lit tree trunk and colored plantings behind it — Colorscaping by WAC. Image: WAC Lighting

Colorscaping by WAC and AiSPiRE

Warm white most nights. Color when you want it.

Warm white or full color. Tunable white and a full color range from one fixture.
One fixture at a time. Each light changes brightness and color on its own, over two-wire landscape wiring.
Set it and leave it. Scenes and schedules run from the MyWAC app or a wall station, by date or by sunrise and sunset.
Part of the house. It connects to Savant and to other systems over DMX, so the yard can join your evening scene.

Colorscaping is for homes where code allows it. We do not design it for Park City or unincorporated Summit County, where color above 3,000K and accent light are out.

A grove of trees lit against a black night sky

Lights already in the ground?

We fix what ages badly, and what breaks the code.

Corroded fixtures, cool white bulbs, up-lights that no longer pass in Park City. We walk it, keep what works and replace the rest.

How a retrofit works

Questions

Common questions

All questions and answers

Is landscape lighting allowed in Park City?

Park City's Land Management Code, Section 15-5-5(J), lists up-lighting, architectural lighting and landscape lighting as prohibited. Outdoor light is limited to safe entry and egress, and it stays at 3,000K or warmer. A Park City design works with low path lights, covered step lights and shielded entry light. Pool and water-feature light and gas lights are exempt.

Can I light my trees in the Snyderville Basin?

No, not as an accent. Summit County Code 10-4-21 prohibits landscape lighting intended to accent or draw attention to landscape elements. Low voltage LED and solar path lights in residential areas are exempt when they sit 18 inches or lower and aim down. Color stays at 3,000K or warmer, with no more than 20,000 lumens per residence.

What does a landscape lighting design include?

Four steps. We walk the property with you at dusk. We draw a scaled plan and fixture schedule with every location, beam, wire run and transformer. We bring fixtures to your home after dark so you can see the effect. At the end of the install we aim every fixture at night, and we come back to re-aim as the plants grow.

Will HK fixtures hold up in a Utah winter?

They are built for hard conditions: anodized and powder coated aluminum or solid brass, sealed to IP67 or IP68, with a marine-grade finish. HK rates them for salt-air exposure and does not state a snow or road-salt test on the pages we read, so we claim none. HK backs the enclosure for life to the original purchaser.

How much does landscape lighting cost?

We quote each property after the walk at dusk. The price follows the design: the number of fixtures, the wire runs, the transformers and the collection you choose. We do not post a number here, because no number would fit your property.

For homeowners

Start with a walk at dusk

What you get from a design, what to plan for, and how to start, in a new build or a finished landscape.

Start here

A dining patio seen from above at night, with plantings lit along the wall

For landscape architects, contractors, architects and builders

A lighting designer on your team

The plan, the fixture table, the fixtures, the wire and the night aiming. You keep the landscape, and we take the light.

Work with us