Victor Hugo purchases Hauteville House in 1856 with the benefits from the Contemplations and he finished the Misérables in the very same house: Hauteville House is hence intrinsically linked to literary creation. It is furthermore the first house that he owns and in which he will live for fifteen years. From 1857 to 1862, he himself designs the interior decoration of the house, for which he even builds furniture. This article demonstrates that Hugo transforms a home into a house-museum that constitutes another one of his works of art, the house-book of a writer-architect. Moreover, Hugo stages a true architecture of the self in the narcissistic house-mirror, where his signature and initials are everywhere inscribed.