The home is a significant space that can help to define our identity by reflecting who we are. It exists at the intersection of the prosaic and the poetic. On one hand, it is the theatre of the most prosaic activities, a space that is enjoyed in inattention, like most of the objects of our ordinary experience; on the other hand, as Bachelard has shown (La poétique de l’espace), it is capable of transforming itself into a powerful evocative figure, triggering rêverie that gives rise to poetic expressions.Based on these assumptions, and in the wake of similar works (cf. Lynch; Pozzato), the analysis focuses on a corpus of drawings produced by ordinary people depicting their domestic spaces. Unlike objective representations such as maps, which are based on standardized representational canons and tend to neutralize subjectivity, the images that this study deals with translate the domestic space according to finite and particular perspectives that highlight the inscription of a subject enunciator and observer. In the discourse of domestic space, the manipulation of settings, the construction of singular planar topologies, or the magnification and narcotization of some figures can become detectors of certain ways of understanding the home, the values that are imprinted on it, the forms of life that are inscribed in it, the affectivity with which it is imbued. Like the childhood drawings that Merleau-Ponty reflected on (La prose du monde), the sketches - renouncing objectivist perspectives - can translate the home from prose into poetry.