It would be adorable!! There is a quilt shop in Springfield, MO with an attached tea room... all the tables have old treadles for bases. Very cute... food was great and the shop is wonderful, too!!!

A lady that donated a bunch of fabric had made a dining room table out of the bottom and it was amazing! Why not use it for something so they don't get forgotten!

I know 3 people that have the machine bottom and a granite top. They are gorgeous!! They got the granite really cheap at salvage yards.

I don't think it would be weird at all. This is one I have in my kitchen (never mind the Easter stuff still on it, tho). I love the way someone took it and salvaged it. Bought it at my friends little boutique a few years ago. Good luck!

I would go for it, I think they make great looking tables!

I am typing this very response on my laptop which is sitting on *my* treadle table in my living room!

I bought mine at a flea market along the river Main in Frankfurt, Germany, 40 years ago. Some little Italian guys wanted the machine, I only wanted the base at the time, now I kick myself! It was much too heavy for me to take home alone, so the gorgeous blonde Viking man selling it, put it and me in his little VW and took it home for me! Sometimes I display my pretty dome-topped wooden boxed Singer hand crank machine on it.

Jan in VA

No, I've seen them turned into tables. Saw one with a lamp attached to it. CUTE!!!!!!

I have one I salvaged and an old piece of marble I found so I'm putting 2 and 2 together to make a table

Not weird at all.

Last winter at a craft fair I seen a bunch of tables made like that a guy was selling. He sandblast the legs and paints them black and puts a flat top on them.

Not at all. I go to a lot of estate sales and have seen beautiful tables and sideboards made using these -- and I'm talking about upscale homes.