The paper deals with one of the key elements of the internal space of a traditional Tatar house - the stove - as a significant cultural object. If we consider the house through the prism of tradition it appears as a plot-organized text that unfolds linearly from the moment it was laid to the point of its devastation. The “plot” of the house always has the goal of preventing denouement, i.e. maintaining its life becomes a necessary condition for household. The starting point of the study is the identification of the elements of the house, related verbal texts and situations where they start functioning as signs., since their semiotic status changes situationally. The paper aims to study the semiotics of the stove as though it is a cultural text, which must be interpreted from different angles. The author proceeds from the fact that in the traditional model of the world, rites and etiquette norms of the Tatars, the house appears as a spatial and mythological center. In this case, the mythological understanding of the house and its iconic elements is inextricably linked with such universal categories as the center / periphery / border /one's own / another's.