Sometimes, descriptions can be more interesting if you show rather than tell. Here's an example:
Telling:
The house was creepy.
Showing:
Only a single dim candle lit the room. The house smelled like dust, rotting wood, and something faintly metallic that made John think of blood. Stuffed animals were mounted around the room: a wild-eyed buck, a grizzly frozen in fury, and a screech owl with sharp yellow talons.
All the concrete nouns have been bolded.
Here's an example:
Telling: My parents like to make Indian food. They made all sorts of dishes that I loved to eat.
Showing: Food is a big part of any Indian holiday, but in my parents’ home, hearty homemade Indian food was a fixture every day. Nightly, we had mounds of basmati rice, baby eggplants stewed in spices that I’d hold up to my face like bejeweled earrings, collard greens, and turnips (gross, until I grew up). Best of all were the nights when she made Kashmiri rogan josh, a lamb dish she’d whip together in a pressure cooker. The whistle was propped up with a wooden spoon and screamed every five minutes on a Saturday afternoon.