diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -2,6 +2,10 @@
 All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [0.4.2] - 2017-08-28
+### Added
+- Introduce `defaultSassOptions` as default options (thanks @chris-martin !)
+
 ## [0.4.1] - 2017-03-19
 ### Fixed
 - Bump `hlibsass` version to 0.1.5.2 (fixes build problem on Cabal 1.24 & Stack
@@ -47,3 +51,5 @@
 [0.2.0]: https://github.com/jakubfijalkowski/hsass/compare/v0.1.0...v0.2.0
 [0.3.0]: https://github.com/jakubfijalkowski/hsass/compare/v0.2.0...v0.3.0
 [0.4.0]: https://github.com/jakubfijalkowski/hsass/compare/v0.3.0...v0.4.0
+[0.4.1]: https://github.com/jakubfijalkowski/hsass/compare/v0.4.0...v0.4.1
+[0.4.2]: https://github.com/jakubfijalkowski/hsass/compare/v0.4.1...v0.4.2
diff --git a/Text/Sass/Options.hs b/Text/Sass/Options.hs
--- a/Text/Sass/Options.hs
+++ b/Text/Sass/Options.hs
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 module Text.Sass.Options
   (
     SassOptions (..)
+  , defaultSassOptions
   , Lib.SassOutputStyle (..)
   ) where
 
@@ -55,24 +56,35 @@
   , sassImporters         :: Maybe [SassImporter]
 }
 
+-- | The default 'SassOptions':
+--
+-- * 'sassPrecision' = 5
+-- * 'sassOutputStyle' = 'Lib.SassStyleNested'
+-- * 'sassIndent' = two spaces
+-- * 'sassLinefeed' = @"\\n"@
+-- * All other fields default to 'False' or 'Nothing'.
+defaultSassOptions :: SassOptions
+defaultSassOptions = SassOptions
+  { sassPrecision         = 5
+  , sassOutputStyle       = Lib.SassStyleNested
+  , sassSourceComments    = False
+  , sassSourceMapEmbed    = False
+  , sassSourceMapContents = False
+  , sassOmitSourceMapUrl  = False
+  , sassIsIndentedSyntax  = False
+  , sassIndent            = "  "
+  , sassLinefeed          = "\n"
+  , sassInputPath         = Nothing
+  , sassOutputPath        = Nothing
+  , sassPluginPaths       = Nothing
+  , sassIncludePaths      = Nothing
+  , sassSourceMapFile     = Nothing
+  , sassSourceMapRoot     = Nothing
+  , sassFunctions         = Nothing
+  , sassHeaders           = Nothing
+  , sassImporters         = Nothing
+  }
+
+-- | 'def' = 'defaultSassOptions'
 instance Default SassOptions where
-    def = SassOptions {
-        sassPrecision         = 5
-      , sassOutputStyle       = Lib.SassStyleNested
-      , sassSourceComments    = False
-      , sassSourceMapEmbed    = False
-      , sassSourceMapContents = False
-      , sassOmitSourceMapUrl  = False
-      , sassIsIndentedSyntax  = False
-      , sassIndent            = "  "
-      , sassLinefeed          = "\n"
-      , sassInputPath         = Nothing
-      , sassOutputPath        = Nothing
-      , sassPluginPaths       = Nothing
-      , sassIncludePaths      = Nothing
-      , sassSourceMapFile     = Nothing
-      , sassSourceMapRoot     = Nothing
-      , sassFunctions         = Nothing
-      , sassHeaders           = Nothing
-      , sassImporters         = Nothing
-    }
+    def = defaultSassOptions
diff --git a/hsass.cabal b/hsass.cabal
--- a/hsass.cabal
+++ b/hsass.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                hsass
-version:             0.4.1
+version:             0.4.2
 license:             MIT
 license-file:        LICENSE
 author:              Jakub Fijałkowski <fiolek94@gmail.com>
diff --git a/test/Text/Sass/ValuesSpec.hs b/test/Text/Sass/ValuesSpec.hs
--- a/test/Text/Sass/ValuesSpec.hs
+++ b/test/Text/Sass/ValuesSpec.hs
@@ -60,9 +60,9 @@
             "1px, 2px"
 
     it "should serialize map" $ do
-        let map = (SassMap [ (SassString "a", SassString "b")
-                  , (SassNumber 1 "", SassBool True)])
-        let opts = optsWithVal map
+        let sassMap = (SassMap [ (SassString "a", SassString "b")
+                       , (SassNumber 1 "", SassBool True)])
+        let opts = optsWithVal sassMap
         result <- compileString "@each $key, $val in foo() { #{$key} { val: #{$val} } }" opts
         result `shouldBe` Right "a {\n  val: b; }\n\n1 {\n  val: true; }\n"