diff --git a/demo/2-declaritive-styles.ts b/demo/2-declaritive-styles.ts
index 04502264a3..eaf39daffe 100644
--- a/demo/2-declaritive-styles.ts
+++ b/demo/2-declaritive-styles.ts
@@ -1,13 +1,13 @@
 // Example on how to customise the look at feel using Styles
 // Import from 'docx' rather than '../build' if you install from npm
 import * as fs from "fs";
-import { Document, HeadingLevel, Packer, Paragraph, Styles, TextRun, UnderlineType } from "../build";
+import { Document, HeadingLevel, Packer, Paragraph, TextRun, UnderlineType } from "../build";
 
 const doc = new Document({
     creator: "Clippy",
     title: "Sample Document",
     description: "A brief example of using docx",
-    styles: new Styles({
+    styles: {
         paragraphStyles: [
             {
                 id: "Heading1",
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ const doc = new Document({
                 quickFormat: true,
             },
         ],
-    }),
+    },
 });
 
 const numberedAbstract = doc.Numbering.createAbstractNumbering();
diff --git a/src/file/core-properties/properties.ts b/src/file/core-properties/properties.ts
index 7d3e447523..a99c74d98f 100644
--- a/src/file/core-properties/properties.ts
+++ b/src/file/core-properties/properties.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import { XmlComponent } from "file/xml-components";
+
 import { DocumentAttributes } from "../document/document-attributes";
-import { Styles } from "../styles";
+import { IStylesOptions } from "../styles";
 import { Created, Creator, Description, Keywords, LastModifiedBy, Modified, Revision, Subject, Title } from "./components";
 
 export interface IPropertiesOptions {
@@ -12,7 +13,7 @@ export interface IPropertiesOptions {
     readonly lastModifiedBy?: string;
     readonly revision?: string;
     readonly externalStyles?: string;
-    readonly styles?: Styles;
+    readonly styles?: IStylesOptions;
 }
 
 export class CoreProperties extends XmlComponent {
diff --git a/src/file/file.ts b/src/file/file.ts
index f68760328d..ccf5fe374c 100644
--- a/src/file/file.ts
+++ b/src/file/file.ts
@@ -97,10 +97,15 @@ export class File {
             const stylesFactory = new ExternalStylesFactory();
             this.styles = stylesFactory.newInstance(options.externalStyles);
         } else if (options.styles) {
-            this.styles = options.styles;
+            const stylesFactory = new DefaultStylesFactory();
+            const defaultStyles = stylesFactory.newInstance();
+            this.styles = new Styles({
+                ...defaultStyles,
+                ...options.styles,
+            });
         } else {
             const stylesFactory = new DefaultStylesFactory();
-            this.styles = stylesFactory.newInstance();
+            this.styles = new Styles(stylesFactory.newInstance());
         }
 
         this.addDefaultRelationships();
diff --git a/src/file/styles/factory.ts b/src/file/styles/factory.ts
index d43f46b732..f5bca8248d 100644
--- a/src/file/styles/factory.ts
+++ b/src/file/styles/factory.ts
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 import { DocumentAttributes } from "../document/document-attributes";
-import { Styles } from "./styles";
+import { IStylesOptions } from "./styles";
 
 import { DocumentDefaults } from "./defaults";
 import {
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ import {
 } from "./style";
 
 export class DefaultStylesFactory {
-    public newInstance(): Styles {
+    public newInstance(): IStylesOptions {
         const documentAttributes = new DocumentAttributes({
             mc: "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/markup-compatibility/2006",
             r: "http://schemas.openxmlformats.org/officeDocument/2006/relationships",
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ export class DefaultStylesFactory {
             w15: "http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/word/2012/wordml",
             Ignorable: "w14 w15",
         });
-        const styles = new Styles({
+        return {
             initialStyles: documentAttributes,
             importedStyles: [
                 new DocumentDefaults(),
@@ -76,9 +76,6 @@ export class DefaultStylesFactory {
                 new FootnoteText({}),
                 new FootnoteTextChar({}),
             ],
-        });
-        styles.createDocumentDefaults();
-
-        return styles;
+        };
     }
 }
diff --git a/src/file/styles/styles.ts b/src/file/styles/styles.ts
index 6e5baa8f2a..064411e419 100644
--- a/src/file/styles/styles.ts
+++ b/src/file/styles/styles.ts
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
 import { BaseXmlComponent, ImportedXmlComponent, XmlComponent } from "file/xml-components";
 
-import { DocumentDefaults } from "./defaults";
 import { CharacterStyle, ParagraphStyle } from "./style";
 import { ICharacterStyleOptions } from "./style/character-style";
 import { IParagraphStyleOptions } from "./style/paragraph-style";
 export * from "./border";
 
-interface IStylesOptions {
+export interface IStylesOptions {
     readonly initialStyles?: BaseXmlComponent;
     readonly paragraphStyles?: IParagraphStyleOptions[];
     readonly characterStyles?: ICharacterStyleOptions[];
@@ -21,6 +20,12 @@ export class Styles extends XmlComponent {
             this.root.push(options.initialStyles);
         }
 
+        if (options.importedStyles) {
+            for (const style of options.importedStyles) {
+                this.root.push(style);
+            }
+        }
+
         if (options.paragraphStyles) {
             for (const style of options.paragraphStyles) {
                 this.root.push(new ParagraphStyle(style));
@@ -32,17 +37,5 @@ export class Styles extends XmlComponent {
                 this.root.push(new CharacterStyle(style));
             }
         }
-
-        if (options.importedStyles) {
-            for (const style of options.importedStyles) {
-                this.root.push(style);
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    public createDocumentDefaults(): DocumentDefaults {
-        const defaults = new DocumentDefaults();
-        this.root.push(defaults);
-        return defaults;
     }
 }