Where can I find pieces for CRAFT a bathroom lighting? Make a bathroom light myself?

Looking to build my own bathroom lighting but cannot fing the backplate, wires, hangers at big stores like Home Depot or Lowes.

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1. stop by your local lighting store. They have individual pieces if you want to custom make a light yourself. Just remember it will not be UL certified because you are not qualified.
2. PLease don't do this. You are going to burn your house down. The first answer mentioned UL certification. That is a testing labratory that tests materials as to whether or not they will burn under certain circumstances. Please do not attempt this. Seriously, also in the bathroom you want your fixtures to be safe and properly grounded. What if you wire it in such a way as to energize the metal of the fixture and you touch this in the bathroom while wet, or just damp, or just high humidity in the air. Make a custom anything else but electrical device. You wont burn down your house with a custom toilet or a custom chair or anything but electrical. Do not screw with electricity. It is THE number one cause of fires in America. Many factors involved like miswiring things but it is the one thing you do not want to take chances with. It is so much more dangerous that you or most people think. They are just so used to turning on the lights, gee how safe, no big deal, no sweat, just hit the switch. It is only that safe because qualified people are putting in UL certified equipment. And even then people manage to burn down their homes. Please do something else custom and go to Home Depot and buy something safe and certified and better yet have a qualified electrician install it on a GFCI protected circuit in your bathroom. I am begging you.
3. Give me a break. How to ghetto up your home by making a half assed piece of crap light fixture. Just go buy something nice, put it up and be done with it.