It is important to make paragraphs come to life for the reader. To achieve this you need to use adjectives and adverbs.
Adjectives modify nouns, while adverbs modify verbs.
It belonged to the old man. He then read the paper and went to bed. The red trimmed three-story house sat in the middle of the tiny town. The old man who had gray hair, with little curls at the end owned it. He used a self made intricate designed cane to walk to work at the rustic old hardware store with squeaky boards that sounded like a rocking chair when stepped upon.