diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
index 7b0e36e1c..84fade6d7 100644
--- a/NEWS.md
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@
 * Preserve trailing blank line in roxygen examples to simplify concatenation of
   examples (#880).
 * added guarantee that styled code is parsable (#892).
+* `indenty_by` is now also respected when curly braces are added to an if
+  statement by {styler} (#915).
 * An error is now thrown on styling if input unicode characters can't be 
   correctly parsed for Windows and R < 4.2 (#883).
 * styling of text does not error anymore when the R option `OutDec` is set to 
diff --git a/R/style-guides.R b/R/style-guides.R
index 157a2c556..d35b5679d 100644
--- a/R/style-guides.R
+++ b/R/style-guides.R
@@ -169,7 +169,12 @@ tidyverse_style <- function(scope = "tokens",
       resolve_semicolon = resolve_semicolon,
       add_brackets_in_pipe = add_brackets_in_pipe,
       wrap_if_else_while_for_fun_multi_line_in_curly =
-        if (strict) wrap_if_else_while_for_fun_multi_line_in_curly
+        if (strict) {
+          purrr::partial(
+            wrap_if_else_while_for_fun_multi_line_in_curly,
+            indent_by = indent_by
+          )
+        }
     )
   }
 
diff --git a/tests/testthat/indention_curly_brackets/custom-in.R b/tests/testthat/indention_curly_brackets/custom-in.R
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..40156b509
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/indention_curly_brackets/custom-in.R
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+
+value <- 5
+if (value > 0)
+    print(value)
+
+
+
+if (value > 0) {
+print(value)
+}
diff --git a/tests/testthat/indention_curly_brackets/custom-in_tree b/tests/testthat/indention_curly_brackets/custom-in_tree
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..454cd1522
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/indention_curly_brackets/custom-in_tree
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+ROOT (token: short_text [lag_newlines/spaces] {pos_id})   
+ ¦--expr: value [0/0] {1}                                 
+ ¦   ¦--expr: value [0/1] {3}                             
+ ¦   ¦   °--SYMBOL: value [0/0] {2}                       
+ ¦   ¦--LEFT_ASSIGN: <- [0/1] {4}                         
+ ¦   °--expr: 5 [0/0] {6}                                 
+ ¦       °--NUM_CONST: 5 [0/0] {5}                        
+ ¦--expr: if (v [1/0] {7}                                 
+ ¦   ¦--IF: if [0/1] {8}                                  
+ ¦   ¦--'(': ( [0/0] {9}                                  
+ ¦   ¦--expr: value [0/0] {10}                            
+ ¦   ¦   ¦--expr: value [0/1] {12}                        
+ ¦   ¦   ¦   °--SYMBOL: value [0/0] {11}                  
+ ¦   ¦   ¦--GT: > [0/1] {13}                              
+ ¦   ¦   °--expr: 0 [0/0] {15}                            
+ ¦   ¦       °--NUM_CONST: 0 [0/0] {14}                   
+ ¦   ¦--')': ) [0/4] {16}                                 
+ ¦   °--expr: print [1/0] {17}                            
+ ¦       ¦--expr: print [0/0] {19}                        
+ ¦       ¦   °--SYMBOL_FUNCTION_CALL: print [0/0] {18}    
+ ¦       ¦--'(': ( [0/0] {20}                             
+ ¦       ¦--expr: value [0/0] {22}                        
+ ¦       ¦   °--SYMBOL: value [0/0] {21}                  
+ ¦       °--')': ) [0/0] {23}                             
+ °--expr: if (v [4/0] {24}                                
+     ¦--IF: if [0/1] {25}                                 
+     ¦--'(': ( [0/0] {26}                                 
+     ¦--expr: value [0/0] {27}                            
+     ¦   ¦--expr: value [0/1] {29}                        
+     ¦   ¦   °--SYMBOL: value [0/0] {28}                  
+     ¦   ¦--GT: > [0/1] {30}                              
+     ¦   °--expr: 0 [0/0] {32}                            
+     ¦       °--NUM_CONST: 0 [0/0] {31}                   
+     ¦--')': ) [0/1] {33}                                 
+     °--expr: {
+pri [0/0] {34}                           
+         ¦--'{': { [0/0] {35}                             
+         ¦--expr: print [1/0] {36}                        
+         ¦   ¦--expr: print [0/0] {38}                    
+         ¦   ¦   °--SYMBOL_FUNCTION_CALL: print [0/0] {37}
+         ¦   ¦--'(': ( [0/0] {39}                         
+         ¦   ¦--expr: value [0/0] {41}                    
+         ¦   ¦   °--SYMBOL: value [0/0] {40}              
+         ¦   °--')': ) [0/0] {42}                         
+         °--'}': } [1/0] {43}                             
diff --git a/tests/testthat/indention_curly_brackets/custom-out.R b/tests/testthat/indention_curly_brackets/custom-out.R
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..28ac4fd10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/testthat/indention_curly_brackets/custom-out.R
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+
+value <- 5
+if (value > 0) {
+    print(value)
+}
+
+
+
+if (value > 0) {
+    print(value)
+}
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-indention_curly.R b/tests/testthat/test-indention_curly.R
index 4ea089c07..448ac209a 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-indention_curly.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-indention_curly.R
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ test_that("indention with multi-line curley and round is correct", {
   ), NA)
 })
 
+test_that("custom indention for curly braces is corretct ", {
+  expect_warning(test_collection("indention_curly_brackets",
+    "custom",
+    transformer = style_text, indent_by = 4
+  ), NA)
+})
+
 
 
 test_that(paste(