How does the author use imagery in the novel, Murder in a Pig’s Eye?

Imagery:

This was a boring living room. It was small and square and barely comfortable. Two windows and a door let in heat in the summer and, Bodie guessed, drafts in the winter. A brown oil stove sat in one corner and an elderly RCA floor-model television in another. On the floor there was an elderly gray carpet sculptured in a swirl pattern that was supposed to make it look expensive but failed. The sofa was two pieces of a tan sectional. The corner section stood alone as a wedge-shaped chair without the comfort of arms. A white metal table shaped like a circular staircase held dusty plants of the kind old ladies grew.