diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 112ad01..47f6f2e 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -48,6 +48,7 @@
     "minimist": "^1.2.0",
     "mkdirp": "^0.5.1",
     "moment": "^2.10.6",
+    "path-exists": "^2.1.0",
     "recursive-readdir-sync": "^1.0.6",
     "simple-html-tokenizer": "^0.2.0",
     "underscore": "^1.8.3",
diff --git a/src/gen/template-generator.js b/src/gen/template-generator.js
index e12eef0..4510ade 100644
--- a/src/gen/template-generator.js
+++ b/src/gen/template-generator.js
@@ -224,7 +224,7 @@ Definition of the TemplateGenerator class.
       PATH.parse( require.resolve('fluent-themes') ).dir,
       this.opts.theme
     );
-    var exists = require('../utils/file-exists');
+    var exists = require('path-exists').sync;
     if( !exists( tFolder ) ) {
       tFolder = PATH.resolve( this.opts.theme );
       if( !exists( tFolder ) ) {
diff --git a/src/utils/file-exists.js b/src/utils/file-exists.js
deleted file mode 100644
index ef99ef9..0000000
--- a/src/utils/file-exists.js
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,19 +0,0 @@
-/**
-Definition of the `fileExists` method.
-@license MIT. Copyright (c) 2015 James Devlin / FluentDesk.
-@module file-exists.js
-*/
-
-var FS = require('fs');
-
-// Yup, this is now the recommended way to check for file existence on Node.
-// fs.exists is deprecated and the recommended fs.statSync/lstatSync throws
-// exceptions on non-existent paths :)
-module.exports = function (path) {
-  try {
-    FS.statSync( path );
-    return true;
-  } catch( err ) {
-    return !(err && err.code === 'ENOENT');
-  }
-};
diff --git a/src/verbs/generate.js b/src/verbs/generate.js
index 4fa10ff..88857c8 100644
--- a/src/verbs/generate.js
+++ b/src/verbs/generate.js
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
     // Verify the specified theme name/path
     var relativeThemeFolder = '../../node_modules/fluent-themes/themes';
     var tFolder = PATH.resolve( __dirname, relativeThemeFolder, _opts.theme);
-    var exists = require('../utils/file-exists');
+    var exists = require('path-exists').sync;
     if (!exists( tFolder )) {
       tFolder = PATH.resolve( _opts.theme );
       if (!exists( tFolder )) {