My husband bought my 1904 Singer treadle for my birthday one year. I took the iron work and cabinet apart. Repainted the ironwork black and all I had to do to the cabinet was give it a good polishing. It has beautiful scroll work on the six drawers. Someone had taken really good care of it..inside the drawers was not washboard!!
Anyway...I do sewing machines (7) at the monent and the DH does computers and parts.