Here is a picture of the closet in my bedroom:

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In the picture it's hard to see, but the carpet outside of the doors is higher than the bottom of the doors because the padding stops outside the doors.

I would like to change these sliding doors and make them swing out from each side. The only problem with that is the bottom of the door would hit the bump in the carpet where the padding starts. Cutting the bottom of the door wouldn't look too good since I would have to cut so much off, there would be a big gap.

What I was thinking about doing is pulling up the carpet in the closet and putting more padding under the door area, a 6 inch strip should do what I need. That would allow me to cut the doors without having a gap under them when the doors are closed.

My concerns are this:

1) By pulling the carpet up inside the closet could I effect the carpet in the bedroom? Is the carpet under tension, could I possibly cause ripples or some other bad thing to happen? I ask this because I assume there is no tack strip across the closet doors, so that area would be loose.

2) The carpet that is currently in the closet is pieces patched together and stapled down, it looks bad. I was thinking about getting a new small piece of carpet (probably not matching) to put in the closet. Could I do that without the tools that carpet guys use to bond the seem together? Is there some type of rubber strip I could put in as a makeshift threshold? This would be behind the doors so you won't see it from the bedroom.

Thanks for any help!