Colette Dining Room Set with Bench and Fabric Chairs.

To also add stability, I drilled holes and inserted screws from the legs, at an angle into the table top, shown with the bottom arrow in the photo below.

This X Style Farmhouse Dining Table.

how to add legs to a table.

Once the table was put together, hubby and I began the slow, messy and laborious process of stripping and sanding the tabletop.