These suggestions are from Charlie Jane Anders’s “Description Without Boring the Reader or Yourself” on, I think, I09. (Her book, btw, is very good.)

1. Commit to never being boring
2. Engage all five senses: sights, sounds, smells, tastes, textures; temperature
3. Try being super terse: Less is more, vivid without length
4. Dynamic rather than static: how might the description tell a story? Evolution not snapshot
5. Project feelings onto inanimate objects
6. Give your character a reaction to what is being described